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Use the '''Batch Number''' search tool if you are looking for births, baptisms, marriages, deaths or burials on microfilms of the various civil and church records of Grenada and want a quick alphabetical index to all the individuals recorded there. | Use the '''Batch Number''' search tool if you are looking for births, baptisms, marriages, deaths or burials on microfilms of the various civil and church records of Grenada and want a quick alphabetical index to all the individuals recorded there. | ||
Since 1974, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been extracting records of births/baptisms and marriages from filmed records in its collection for Grenada. Most of these extracted records are indexed by name in the '''International Genealogical Index (IGI)''' available on [ | Since 1974, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been extracting records of births/baptisms and marriages from filmed records in its collection for Grenada. Most of these extracted records are indexed by name in the '''International Genealogical Index (IGI)''' available on [https://www.familysearch.org www.familysearch.org]. Every group of extracted records has been assigned a '''batch number'''. If you know the '''batch number''' of an extracted film for a parish you are interested in (perhaps obtained from a record previously found indexed on FamilySearch.org), you can do a search on [https://www.familysearch.org www.familysearch.org] for just that batch number and the results will be ALL of the extracted names from that record, in alphabetical order. This is a great aid to researchers for locating family members and other associated relatives. | ||
To do this, follow these steps: | To do this, follow these steps: | ||
*Go to [ | *Go to [https://www.familysearch.org www.familysearch.org]. | ||
*Under "Restrict records by:" click on '''Batch Number.''' | *Under "Restrict records by:" click on '''Batch Number.''' | ||
*Enter your batch number in the search field that appears. | *Enter your batch number in the search field that appears. | ||
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