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From: Mike Murray <>
Subject: Re: [APG] IGI Batch numbers
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:29:27 +0800
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Natalie, Joan

It won't help you for Rheinland, but British and North American Batch
Numbers are available at Hugh Wallis's great site, http://
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm

Batch number searching is one of the great 'secrets' of the IGI.

Cheers


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On 13/06/2005, at 9:39 AM, Joan Lowrey wrote:

> Natalie,
>
>
>
> There *is* a way to search by specific location *if* that location
> has had its records extracted by the LDS Church and those records
> are in the IGI. There used to be microfiche at the FHCs called, I
> think, "Parish Register Index," which listed all the places which
> had been extracted (or were earmarked for future extraction), with
> their Batch Numbers. Maybe that set is still available. If you
> can't check those fiche, see if you can find anyone in the IGI who
> was christened or married in your place. Then search the IGI for
> your surname and that Batch Number. I just had good success doing
> just that with a Batch Number for Cincinnati marriages in the early
> 1850s. You can even search through *every* name that was extracted
> by entering only the Batch Number (no names).
>
> Joan Neumann Lowrey
>
>
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