The International Genealogical Index (IGI) is one of the essential tools for most people seriously into family history research overseas. It is available through Family Search
The IGI contains millions of names of people who lived between the 1500s and the late 1800s. Using official and church records from the US, Canada, Europe, and Latin America, the names relating to marriages, births and christenings have been extracted and indexed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
From the official website, you can search for individuals or for individual family groups, And that is a very valuable tool.
The IGI database is organised into batches, and batch searching allows you to search for your family within individual parish records over a much longer timeframes than individual searches allow. You can use batch number searching to scan through your family name or to scroll through all the individual records from that parish with the same batch number. It sounds complex but most people will pick it up easily. And batch searching is such an invaluable tool, it is well worth the time. Follow this link for batch numbers for the US and UK
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