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Comment by Myss Story on August 16, 2009 at 1:01pm: Mary Hellman: glad to help. You might try this forum here on Genealogy Wise
http://www.genealogywise.com/group/swedishancestry for help with Swedish research. It's small so far, but I got a reply the next day! They like to have the requests put in a folder letter of the surname/patronym, ie N for Nilsson.

Comment by Mary Hellman on August 16, 2009 at 8:24am: Myss Story. Thanks for all the input! I will check out the IGI Batch numbers, plus I will need to check and see if Sweden has a site. Had a number of ancestors that came over form there. I will also check out the old search on FamilySearch like you suggested as well.
Thanks a bunch!
Mary

Comment by Myss Story on August 15, 2009 at 9:30am: Mary Hellman: ack! forgot to past the URL for the IGI Batch numbers British
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm

Comment by Myss Story on August 15, 2009 at 9:30am: Mary Hellman: here is the website I mentioned which provides specifically British IGI batch numbers and even has a handy linked search window. There are other country batch numbers. Search internet with term "IGI batch numbers" and a country. I don't know if all countries have such pages. For me the British pages were a hugely successful resource since I didnt know much about parishes and their geography at the time.

Comment by Myss Story on August 15, 2009 at 9:24am: Mary Hellman: Just to clarify, this technique does not use Ancestry.com, it is the FamilySearch .org old search, not the pilot. Select Search/Advanced then International Genealogical Index. That will pull up query screen with batch number field lower left. BTW there is an independent web site that lists the parishes/towns associated with batch numbers. I'll have to round that url up.

Comment by Mary Hellman on August 15, 2009 at 8:51am: Myss Story - Where do you enter the batch number?

Comment by Myss Story on August 14, 2009 at 10:40pm: Another technique I like on the FamilySearch which I don't see in their Pilot search which looks like the Footnote and the new Ancestry search...bleh!
is once I'ive found someone and their parents, I can enter the batch number, set the parents and find siblings. VERY useful. Sometimes the parents moved to a different parish, so if I know a child is "sposta" be theirs, I'll try a differnt batch. I have found entire early families this way. I sure hope they continue to provide those boring lists for those of us who don't need zoomomatic extravagances.

Comment by Myss Story on August 14, 2009 at 10:34pm: A succesful technique for me works when I have a not common but not too uncommon name, say Wilfred or Gertrude. I will enter just the first name (and permutations of likely mispellings) and run down the list. It helps not to have a bunch of extraneous stuff, and just lines, like a phone book. I set the list to 50 and in 4 clicks I can run through 200 names. I'll just look for the middle name-makes the search more straightforward. It has been surprisingly effective for me. Of course with more common names it's trickier, unless you know/guess they are in a less common name like Barking or Flathead. It's also worked in a place like the Bronx. I don't know the wards, but I look at the streets, find a likely intersection, and search that way. Found 2 people. Just let me look at and sort the list, I'll find many.

Comment by Myss Story on August 14, 2009 at 10:27pm: One of the things I have requested, since they asked by sending me the survey several times, is that Ancestry provide a sorting choice. If you notice, you'll get a series of names, then it starts over in a different place name. I've found "my person" around line 60 or 200, not at the top. Often I have no idea about where someone was born, or registered specifically, so I'd like to see all Charles Lodges born 1815-1816 in Essex, then in Lancashire, then in York as example. But it won't do that, it's got some other priority I havent figured out yet after years of trying, LOL! If I ask for Charles Lodge 1815 in Essex, I'll get Charles Lodge 1826 in Yorkshire. Weird.

Comment by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on August 14, 2009 at 6:58am: Hi Kate - Ancestry still ranks using stars if you untick the radio button for "Exact Search"