Brian Lawson's index to Island burials opens up other lines of research - eg into epidemics - as part of this and also based on my earlier (and still ongoing) research into early Peel I tried to gain an estimate of population sizes - this led to looking at the IGI transcriptions using the batch numbers to fetch only those supposedly from the 1911 transcription - see http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/history/demog.htm for links - two questions immediately arise (a) these batchs contain deaths, usually in high stress period, that do not appear in Brians index and (b) huge gaps in Michael (and no doubt other parishes) - am I missing something here ?