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From: "Carlisle" <>
Subject: Re: Batch Numbers
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:19:53 +0100
References: <006601c1e651$200ac240$a34a063e@oemcomputer> <IG$FMVAXfmv8EwwT@feather1.demon.co.uk>


Only half way up the wall??? I think this is the same ~?*&^"£$ brickwall
that I am trying to climb on my mother's line - has anybody out there found
any MILSTEADs (and variants) - who have no business being in Essex, they are
supposed to be in Kent or London! My maternal great-great-grandmother is
a mystery (as it my gg-grandfather, come to that!!). There's a prize for
the first one to find out who my real gg-grandmother is, and an even bigger
one for finding gg-grandpapa!!!!

As for Sarah Jennings, she can stay half-way up the wall for the moment - at
least I know where she is!!!!

Thanks, Fred.

Cheers,

Helen, West Sussex, UK

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Feather" <>
To: "Carlisle" <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: Batch Numbers


> Dear Helen,
>
> Every day as I crept "like a snail" unwillingly to school from Bricket
> Wood to St.Albans, I passed, near the Abbey, a plaque to Sarah Jennings.
> Did you know she was born half way up a wall in Holywell Hill?
>
> Fred.
>
>
> In message <006601c1e651$200ac240$>, Carlisle
> <> writes
> >Pubby, how can you destroy my illusions!!!!!!!!!!!! My grandmother
always
> >claimed that we went back to the same line as Winston Churchill because
her
> >mother was a Sarah Jennings (by marriage)!!!! Are you saying I cannot
> >claim a share in the Duke of Marlborough's estate - how will I live?????
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Helen, West Sussex,UK
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Ian Hunter" <>
> >To: <>
> >Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:59 PM
> >Subject: RE: Batch Numbers
> >
> >
> >> Naughty Noel has just upset all those people who've traced their
> >> ancestry back to King Canute exclusively using the IGI.
> >>
> >> Your KIDD ancestors are unlikely to be related to Captain Kidd, you're

> >> unlikely to be related to the Royal Family, SMITHs are not all related
> >> and Manchester ISN'T IN ESSEX!
> >>
> >> There. Said it. Got it off my chest.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Ian Pubby Hunter
> >>
> >> Essex Pubs at: http://www.essexpubs.net
> >>
> >> I use Archive CD Books to help with my research
> >> http://www.archivecdbooks.org
> >>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: Noel Clark [mailto:]
> >> > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 6:00 AM
> >> > To:
> >> > Subject: Batch Numbers
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > The site to visit is
> >> > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNu
> >> > mbers.htm#
> >> > Page
> >> >
> >> > The records entered in to the LDS Familysearch database are
> >> > in batches, usually corresponding to parts of parish
> >> > registers, but also to information submitted by members of
> >> > the LDS church pertaining to their own family history.
> >> >
> >> > For example, let us suppose that you are interested in the
> >> > parish of Freston, Suffolk. By going to the web site shown
> >> > above, you can look up the batch numbers pertaining to
> >> > Freston. You then go to www.familysearch.org and, following
> >> > the instructions there, use these batch numbers to display
> >> > all of the entries (if any) in the register for the
> >> > surname(s) of interest to you. Try the surname BLOSS in
> >> > Freston as an example.
> >> >
> >> > The advantage of this method is that you get all of the
> >> > entries in one or two hits.
> >> >
> >> > HOWEVER ......
> >> >
> >> > Points to note:
> >> >
> >> > Not all parishes have batch numbers.
> >> >
> >> > There is no guarantee that the database contains all of the
> >> > entries in the parish register.
> >> >
> >> > You have no idea of the accuracy of the data, gaps in the
> >> > data, the condition of the original registers, etc. etc. The
> >> > LDS data may have been derived from the original register,
> >> > or, and often, from a previous transcription.
> >> >
> >> > As always with the LDS, you get no burials. Many is the
> >> > family tree built on an ancestor who died in infancy!
> >> >
> >> > So it is imperative to look at the original records before
> >> > using the LDS data to compile a family tree.
> >> >
> >> > What is important about the LDS database is what is NOT THERE
> >> > rather than what is.
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Noel
> >> >
> >>
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>
> --
> Frederick Feather

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