Genealogy Chat

Hi I have seen a reference to someone finding extra family for a relative by doing a batch no search.Can anyone tell me how to do this please? thanks Tricia

If you type in a relatives name and get a result you know is true go to the bottom of the page and click on the batch number. The search page will then come up again - this time just put in the surname of the person you are looking for and press search. Hey presto, you will get a list of all people with the same surname who were born/married in that church.

I use two different ways of doing this. Either I find a relative on Family Search, not under the Census section but under the International Genealogical Index. Click on the name, and if you look towards the bottom of the page you will see the IGI batch number. Click on the batch number, type in the surname of the family, and then Search. All the people with the same surname will be listed. The other way is to go to Hugh Wallis Batch no site (type that in on Google and the URL will come up), select the county and then the parish that you want, and then click on either the births batch number or the marriages batch number. Type the name in the box, Search, and again, if there are any there, a list of names will appear. Its an excellent way of finding a lot of relatives if they stayed in the same area for a long time. By looking at all the births, making a note of the name, date, and parents, you can then work out which siblings go together. If you then put them into date order in family groups (ie the parents and all their children), you can often see that one couple had say four children, then those four children each had children of their own, and so on. I added 40 names from three generations to my tree in one session that way. Good luck, Jan.

Thanks Trish and Jan. Guess what I am going to do now? Tricia

Wow. it works. I have just found 48 Wynns in Painswick Gloucester. Now have to work out how they connect. Thanks again Tricia

Don't forget you can do a parent search on the IGI. Where it says father and mother put in the father's forename and surname and just the mothers first name. It will give you all of the children of that couple. Obviously sometimes they are common names but if there are big gaps in the years than you can sort them out. Margaret

That was a great tip ...thankyou.. I had no idea you could do that.. Please may I just add that this board is a great learning experience...thankyou to everyone who participates.. Kate

Hi, I'm a wee bit confused now! By getting a group of people on the same batch number, does that mean that they are definitely from the same family somewhere along the line? Thanks, Carol

A group of people with the same name on a batch number merely mean that they were christened or married in the same parish in that period. You need to look into it more to find out if they were related. Where parents' names are given, check how they all go together. Look for a son in one group who could be the father in another, and so on. Its great fun. Jan.

Thanks Jan, will try that now. Best wishes, Carol.