Hi Ray!
I'm sorry about the length of this next link. It's a bit of an effort to
copy and paste each chopped line into your web-browser's address bar, but it
really is worth it, as you get a far better search scheme than via the
normal search page at the IGI (don't leave any spaces between the segments
when you add them together in the address bar - it can be easier to copy and
paste the individual segments into notepad, remove the spaces beteen the
segments, then copying the whole into the browser's address bar). With this
search page, you can specify which of the 14 counties the IGI considers to
be Welsh (Monmouthshire is hiding under England *sigh*) or the individual
counties of any of the other countries in the British Isles.
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/igi/search_igi.asp?first_name=&...
ame=&fathers_first_name=&fathers_last_name=&mothers_first_name=&mothers_last
_name=&spouses_first_name=&spouses_last_name=&event_index=0&to_date=&from_da
te=&juris1=&juris2=&juris3=&juris4=&standardize=&date_range=0&date_range_ind
ex=0&batch_number=&serial_number=&film_number=&file_number=&social_number=&s
ubmission_number=®ion=2®ionfriendly=British+Isles&juris1friendly=&juri
s2friendly=&juris3friendly=&juris4friendly=
Yes, that really was all just the one link!
Alternatively, if you know which set of parish records you would like to
search the IGI for, try this nifty little god-send of a site (I've forgotten
who created it, but he's on a few of the rootsweb mailing lists). Oh yes,
his name is in the link - Doh!
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm#Page
Hope these help! Well, actually, since so few of the Welsh registers have
actually been filmed by the LDS (not their fault, it seems), it probably
won't give you many of the records you'll be searching for.
Have fun trying, at least.
x Kate.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Renesray(a)aol.com>
To: <BlaenauGwent-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:05 AM
Subject: [Bla'Gwent] Re: BlaenauGwent-D Digest V02 #85
Hi Listers,
Can somebody tell me? Exactly what part of Wales is at present covered by
the
IGI Internet Family Search Site. As I understand it there are 23
parishes
of
Monmouthshire and 2 of Montgomeryshire and nothing else. Is this
right?
Thanks. Ray Hapgood