Grenada Heritage: IGI Batch Numbers ~ Grenada National Archives

Overview

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 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 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:

Go to www.familysearch.org.
Under “Restrict records by:” click on Batch Number.
Enter your batch number in the search field that appears.
The search results should be a list of all enties in that batch of records, in alphabetical order by name.

Indexes to Batch Numbers

The LDS has organised the records in the IGI into ‘batches’. Batches can sometimes contain records from more than one town, parish, or church.
What follows is an outline on records on each FHL microfilm for Grenada by locality and by batch number. Ric Greaves has done much of the work to organized the batch numbers for each parish in Grenada, so that you can easily see which batches and time periods are available for the area you are researching. A basic attempts has also been made to included batches that are not, as yet, on the FamilySearch website.

Using the IGI Site

Using the FamilySearch you can now, even select the parish you are interested in (under State or Province). Note that the State “Other” actually refers to Carriacou. From this menu you can also to to narrow your search by restricting your records using one of the following:

Location
Type
Batch Number
Film Number

Note: the range of batch and film numbers available to search online for Grenada are currently small and you will not be able to find much online compared to viewing the films directly at a FHC.
After 1991, LDS member submission information was not recorded, so all one has is the name and date information, the film containing the temple record shows little more than what you see on the IGI entry for the individual.

Batch	Batch Description	Locating the Source
I——	Mixed records (birth/christening, marriage, and/or death/burial) extractions from a single microfilm.	The GS Film Number is located at the Family History Library that was the original source. The films can be circulated to FamilySearch Centers for viewing.

At FamilySearch click on the Dropdown Search tab.
Click the search criteria Batch Number.
Enter a Batch Number. Click the “Search” button. Search results are displayed in alphabetical order by last name. The site is free of charge.

Record Content

The batches numbers are for extracted civil and church containing birth, christening and marriage records. Batch numbers relate to records extracted (indexed) for the International Genealogical Index (IGI). Each batch number relates to a specific record and range of years. Knowing more information about what is included in a batch may be helpful for continuing your research.
Knowing the range of years covered by a particular IGI batch number may help you better understand what data may or may not be indexed in the IGI.
The Parish and Vital Records Index available on microfiche at family history centers has been used to identify what records have been indexed for the IGI. Presently this index is an electronic index for the years 1866 to 1891. [1]
The 1866 to 1891 collection is not necessarily intended to index any specific set of records. This index is not complete for any particular place or region. This collection may include information previously published in the International Genealogical Index or Vital Records Index collections. Access the records via Grenada Births and Baptisms, 1866-1891. A Christening record’ may contain:

Father
Mother
Name (of the child)
Gender
Birth Date
Birthplace (parish-name, Grenada)
Father’s Name
Mother’s Name
Indexing Project (Batch) Number I02552-7
GS Film number 1523169
Reference ID

Currently the transcriptions are birth records and so the Christening Date and Christening Place nor Death Date are not yet incuded on the IGI for Grenada.
Marriage records, Death records, Burial records and Land records for Grenada are not included on the IGI.
_{Note: A general query on the film numbers for Grenada will declare
there are a very large number of records (40,811 for 1523169), however
you’ll see from the tabulation below that there are actually a total of
only 14944 on the corresponding film.}

Film Number 1523145

Family History Library (FHL) film number 1523145 is a copy of parts of the Civil Register of Births from all seven parishes for 1866 to 1875 in twelve items corresponding to batch numbers I02551-1 to 1 to 12:

Year	No.	St. And.	Carr.	St. Dav.	St. Geo.	St. Joh.	St. Mar.	St. Pat.
1866	1	1-248	1-245	1-129	1-679	1-165	1-82	1-242
1866-68	2	-	-	-	1-852	-	-	-
1867	3	1-281	246-483	130-263	-	166-335	1-84	242-418
1868	4	1-293	489-720	264-416	-	264-416	85-168	416-648
1868-74	5	-	-	-	1-2004	-	-	-
1869	6	1-320	722-949	417-560	-	497-690	169-273	649-902
1870	7	1-280	950-1176	561-693	-	691-862	274-355	1-264
1871	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1872	8	1-348	1177-1395	694-854	-	863-1099	356-465	1-273
1873	9	1-371	1396-1639	855-994	-	1080-1306	466-564	1-281
1873	10	1-325	1640-1903	595-738	-	1307-1522	565-693	1-253
1874	11	1-389	1904-2131	739-893	1-345	1523-1732	694-823	1-305
1875	12	-	-	-	-	1733-1738	824-897	-
Totals		2562	2124	1293	3880	1738	1069	2278

Film Number 1523169

Family History Library (FHL) film number 1523169 is a continuation copy of parts of the Civil Register of Births from all seven parishes for 1875 to 1882 in eleven items corresponding to batch numbers I02552-1 to 1 to 11:

Year	No.	St. And.	Carr.	St. Dav.	St. Geo.	St. Joh.	St. Mar.	St. Pat.
1875	1	1-378	2132-2365	894-1035	-	-	860-956	306-565
1876	3	1-375	2366-2590	1036-1183	706-1023	1937-2185	957-1106	566-821; 1-46
1877	4	1-399	2590-2805	1184-1342	-	-	1142-1232	47-285
1878	5	1-376	2817-3067	1343-1517	-	2392-2580	1233-1333	290-528
1879	6	1-427	3068-3313	1518-1692	-	2581-2761	1334-1436	532-760
1874-79	2	-	-	-	1-1777	-	-	-
1880	7	-	-	-	1785-2011	-	-	-
1880	8	1-414	3314-3582	1693-1888	-	2762-2999	1437-1594	761-978
1881	9	1-434	3583-3832	1889-1999; 1000-1042	-	3074-3209	1589-1696	979-1211
1880-84	10	-	-	-	2012-4832	-	-	-
1882	11	1-119	-	-	-	3224-3485	1697-1821	1212-1472
1884-87	7	-	-	-	4868-7889	-	-	-
Totals		2922	1688	1141	7853	1249	925	1735
Missing?		0	12	0	36	300	0	9

Film Number 1523187

Family History Library (FHL) film number 1523187 is a continuation copy of parts of the Civil Register of Births from all seven parishes for the years 1882 to 1891 in eleven items corresponding to batch numbers I02553-1 to 1 to 11:

Year	No.	St. And.	Carr.	St. Dav.	St. Geo.	St. Joh.	St. Mar.	St. Pat.
1882	1	119-419	3833-4084	1043-1193	—	—	—	—
1883	3	—	4085-4316	1194-1347	—	3486-3731	1822-1925	1473-1747
1884	4	1-423	4317-4531	1348-1439	—	3746-3950	1926-2045	1748-1997
1885	5	1-439	4558-4811	1440-1597	—	64-284	1-81	1997-2074; 1-172
1886	6	50-500	4812-4981	1598-1739	—	285-543	117-256	174-442
1887	2	1-491	4989-5197	1740-1889	—	544-825	257-395	454-770
1888	7	1-313	5198-5485	1890-2056	—	826-1098	396-533	771-1086
1888	8	—	—	—	1-2854	—	—	—
1889	9	314-847	5486-5748	2057-4026	—	99-406	534-614; 1-82	1-311
1890	10	848-1382	5749-6049	4027-5099	—	407-741	83-245	1-300
1891	11	1383-1741	—	—	—	742-1031	246-384	1-362
.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Totals	.	3841	2175	4048	2854	2410	1179	2644
Missing?	.	0	35	0	36	15	36	0

Film Number 1523204

Family History Library (FHL) film number 1523204 is a continuation copy of parts of the Civil Register of Births from all seven parishes for the years 1891 to 1905, currently with no corresponding to batch numbers for this film.
Sadly at the moment the following is one of seven films for Grenada that have not been transcribed. The decision for this may have been because several or the original pages being filmed in 1974 were in extreme state of decay (even though they are not altogether that old). See this example from Birth Civil Record August 1897, St. Patrick’s, Grenada.

This an image is one of the better fragments of the pages from the Grenada Civil Register for the year from the late 1890s.

Year	No.	St. And.	Carr.	St. Dav.	St. Geo.	St. Joh.	St. Mar.	St. Pat.
1891	1	1742-576	—	6000-6198	—	—	—	—
1892	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1893	2	577-1160	6650-6958	6409-6592	260-387	1368-1702	559-712	342-694
1894	3	1161-1732	6959-7208	6593-6818	651-936	1-105; 1703-1931	713-896	695-1043
1895	4	1733-2387	7209-7418	6819-7057	1047-1327	106-455	—	1044-1435
1896	5	2388-2918	7419-7729	7058-7292	1362-1777;1-70	456-791	1078-1252	1436-1793
1897	6	2192-2649	7730-7909	7292-7510	77-555	792-1075	1252-1410	1794-3045
1898	7	2650-3264	7779-8025	7511-7770	556-1173	1076-1415	1410-1582	3046-3381
1899	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1900	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1901	8	—	—	—	2305-2761;1-181	—	—	—
1902	9	—	—	—	182-791	—	—	—
1903	10	—	—	—	792-1503	—	—	—
1904	11	—	—	—	1504-3082	—	—	—
1904	12	6493-7191	9471-9633	9052-9334	—	1160-1495	561-723	5402-5480; 1-374
1905	13	7192-7562	—	—	1-358	—	—	1-130
Totals	.	5054	1663	1837	6165	2308	1002	3616
Missing?	.	3229+	1616+	1493+	1548+	?	182+	2021+

Film Number 1523217

Family History Library (FHL) film number 1523217 is a continuation copy of parts of the Civil Register of Births from all seven parishes for the years 1905 to 1910, currently with no corresponding to batch numbers.

Year	No.	St. And.	Carr.	St. Dav.	St. Geo.	St. Joh.	St. Mar.	St. Pat.
1905	1	—	1-141	1-150	—	1-149	1-79	37-224
1905	2	7563-7908	142-254	151-280	359-680	151-299	80-159	225-462
1906	3	7909-8350	255-382	281-397	681-864; 1-151	300-467	160-244	463-660
1906	4	8351-8669	383-501	398-525	152-481	468-604	245-314	661-862
1907	5	8670-8977	506-575; 1-45	526-576; 1-71	482-737	605-751	315-371	863-1036
1907	6	8978-9337	46-143	72-214	744-863;1-188	752-858; 1-55	372-455	1037-1258
1908	7	9338-9700	144-257	215-346	195-530	56-205	456-540	1259-1492
1908	8	9701-10063	258-367	346-486	531-862	206-381	541-606	1493-1715
1909	9	1-351	368-490	487-571; 1-58	1-281	382-536	607-667	1716-1909
1910	10	352-659	491-569; 1-17	59-170	318-581	537-576; 1-86	668-754	1910-2120
1910	11	1-346	18-122	171-305	582-862; 1-28	87-224	755-808	2121-2341
1910	12	347-695	—	306-324	—	225-372	809-886	2342-2533
Totals	.	3846	1252	1461	3064	1794	875	2485
Missing?	.	0	0	0	51	0	0	0

Film Number 1523259

Family History Library (FHL) film number 1523259 is a continuation copy of parts of the Civil Register of Births from all seven parishes for the years 1910 to 1916, currently with no corresponding to batch numbers.

Year	No.	St. And.	Carr.	St. Dav.	St. Geo.	St. Joh.	St. Mar.	St. Pat.
1910	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1911	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1911	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1912	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1912	5	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1913	6	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1913	7	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1914	8	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1914	9	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1915	10	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1916	11	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1916	12	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Totals	.	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.

For now, those interested in seeking births for:

August 1910 to December 1910 in Carriacou
January 1911 through to June 1915 in All seven parishes
January 1916 through to December 1916 in All seven parishes

you will need to consult FHL INTL Film 1523537 which holds the index to birth registers – five items 1 through 7 for 1900 to 1935.

Film Number 1523339

Family History Library (FHL) film number 1523339 is a copy of parts of the Duplicate copy of Registers of Marriages from the church registers of all seven parishes for the years 1903 to 1910, currently with no corresponding to batch numbers.
Sadly the following is one of seven films that have not been transcribed (therefore there are no corresponding batch numbers).
For now, those interested in seeking marriages for this period will need to consult FHL INTL Film 1523362 which holds the index to general and special marriage registers – Volumes 1 through 3 for 1903 to 1932.

Film Number 1523352

Family History Library (FHL) film number 1523352 is a continuation copy of parts of the Duplicate copy of Registers of Marriages from the church registers of all seven parishes for the years 1910 to 1918, currently with no corresponding to batch numbers.
Sadly the following is one of seven films that have not been transcribed (therefore there are no corresponding batch numbers).
For now, those interested in seeking marriages for this period will need to consult FHL INTL Film 1523362 which holds the index to general and special marriage registers – Volumes 1 through 3 for 1903 to 1932.

Film Number 1523353

Family History Library (FHL) film number 1523353 is a continuation copy of parts of the Duplicate copy of Registers of Marriages from the church registers of all seven parishes for the years 1919 to 1922 and 1924 to 1928, currently with no corresponding to batch numbers.
For now, those interested in seeking marriages for this period will need to consult FHL INTL Film 1523362 which holds the index to general and special marriage registers – Volumes 1 through 3 for 1903 to 1932.

Film Number 1523361

Family History Library (FHL) film number 1523361 is a continuation copy of parts of the Duplicate copy of Registers of Marriages from the church registers of all seven parishes for the years 1928 to 1934, currently with no corresponding to batch numbers. Another film that has not been transcribed.
This film contains thirteen items:

Three items (1 to 3) – this contains the Duplicate Marriages registers for 1928 to 1930
One item (4) – this contains the Duplicate Marriages registers for 1923
Eight items (5 to 12) – this contains the General Marriages registers, Volumes 1 to 8 for 1903 to 1932
One item (13) – this contains the Special Marriages register, Volume 1 to 1903 to 1934.

For now, those interested in seeking marriages for this period will need to consult FHL INTL Film 1523362 which holds the index to general and special marriage registers – Volumes 1 through 3 for 1903 to 1932.

Film Number 1523537

Family History Library (FHL) film number 1523537 is a copy of parts of the Death registers from the church registers of all seven parishes (districts) for the years 1928 to 1934, currently with no corresponding to batch numbers.
This film contains two items. Sadly it is another one of seven films that have not been transcribed (therefore there are no corresponding batch numbers). The film contains:

Items 12 to 14 – these contain the Death registers for all Parishes (districts) for 1871 and 1873 to 1874
Itema 1 to 16 – these contain the Death registers for all Parishes (districts) for 1875 to 1890.

Film Number 1523656

Family History Library (FHL) film number 1523656 is a copy of parts of the Baptism, Confirmation, Bann, Marriage, and Burial registers from the Archdeaconry of Grenada in the Anglican Rectory registers (manuscripts) of the districts of St. Luke, St. Peter and St. Paul in the parish of St. George’s, Grenada for the years 1784 to 1971, currently with no corresponding to batch numbers.
St. Luke, St. Peter and St. Paul are considered ecclesiastical districts within the parish of St. George. The parish of St. George has jurisdiction over the entire civil district of St. George. The Anglican Church registers of baptisms and marriages for the years 1812 to 1815 includes records for the united parishes of St. George, St. John and St. Mark.
Unfortunately this film has not, as yet, been transcribed into the FamilySearch IGI database. However here is a list of its content which for now can be viewed from a Family History Centre after it has been ordered from the Utah main library: [2]

Item 2 – Baptisms and burials for 1784 to 1804 (these are themselves a paper transcription)
Item 1 – Baptisms, marriages and burials for 1806 to 1831
Item 3 – Baptisms, marriages and burials for 1812 to 1815
Item 4 – Baptisms, marriages and burials for 1816 to 1831 (transcription)
Item 5 – Register of slaves baptisms and marriages for 1817 to 1834 (includes burials 1833-1834)
item 6 – Baptisms and marriages for 1831 to 1837
Item 7 – Baptisms, marriages and burials for 1837 to 1844
Item 8 – Baptisms for 1844 to 1892
Item 9 – Baptisms of the district of St. Luke for 1851 to 1884
Items 10-11 - Baptisms for 1892 to 1932
Item 12 – Confirmations for 1901 to 1931
Items 13-14 – Marriages for 1844 to1930
Item 15 – Marriages of the districts of St. Luke and St. Peter 1909 to 1933
Item 16 – Banns for 1903 to 1931
Item 17 – Special marriage register 1912 to 1942
Items 18-19 – Burials 1844 to 1930
Item 20 – District of St. Paul Marriages 1861-1902, Baptisms 1860-1895, and Burials 1861-1971

Example 1819 birth registration from 1523656:
Sample from Grenada Baptism Registers of records 1844-1892
See sample from Item 8 of Baptisms 1844-1892:

Sample from Grenada Baptism Registers of records 1844-1892

Also for a marriage registration in 1840 in the Parish of Saint George in Grenada:

Sample from Grenada Baptism Registers of records 1844-1892

Land Registers

Land Registry – Registers of land and property transactions before the Court of Common Pleas and the Supreme Court of Grenada, West Indies. The main body of the records is in English and covers the period 1764-1931; a French language series covers a period 1766-1904. [see films see: https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/574884?availability=Family%20History%20Library]
Sample of item from film number 1563380:

Sample from Grenada Land Registers of records 1825-1834 (v. H5-O5)

Early French Registers

Thanks to the work done by the British Library under their Endangered Archive Projects initiated by the University of Manchester for the Grenada National Archive some 371 pages of records of early Baptisms, Marriages and Burials for Grenada covering the 1765 to 1797 which includes 20 pages of French marriages from 1765.

Author: Ric Greaves (2008)

3 Mar 2008