By that I mean they don't have the familiarity of the family that you have.Īside from any errors of transcription the parish records often have more information in terms of godparents, witnesses or sponsors, depending on which denomination, and these folk are frequently related and sometimes with the relationship spelt out ie uncle, grandfather etc.
Having done my time with them I now wonder how I could have had such difficulties at the beginning.ĭon't forget that those who do the extractions do not often have the invested interest that you have. When I started going through the early Dundee parishes I wondered how on earth anyone could make out what was written. Extracted records tend to be more correct but remember they are still what someone has interpreted from what was written. I, at least, have consulted the parish records. There are one or two lineages submitted that claim to be of the families I am researching but there the similarity ends. As stated above, submitted information can often be wrong or "fantastic" ie of fantasy. The rest is only how the person was identified in the ordinance nothing moreīottom line is that you should never take the IGI as "gospel". They are what the IGI indexes the date those ordinances were performed on the person specified. If you click the above link and look at the columns B, E & S those are the dates the ordinances (Baptism, Endowment & Sealing) took place. The IGI is only an index to the Temple Ordinances of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
It is not an index to parish registers, it never has been and never will be. I use the IGI as a Guide only as when i do check the registers they do sometimes differ.That is because you are trying to use the IGI (or the computer file as it used to be called) as an index to parish registers. In checking IGI against actual parish registers they have errors in the dates etc. I have come across wrong IGI entries many times. Whilst Ancestral files are submitted by people etc and are often wrong. Im not in understanding of what you have wrote above. At best, use them as a possible guide - but certainly not as factual.Īs Mutley says, the IGI is a useful resource - and free! However, it must be used with caution.
#IGI LDS PLUS#
Stick to extracted IGI records being basically OK - although seeing the originals is really important if you can (transcript errors can creep in - plus there may be other info on the originals!) and treat submitted records with a very large degree of caution.
So the LDS won't "fix" data which is genealogically incorrect - from their religious viewpoint, that data is correct. Some of these links are made from assumptions which may be incorrect as far as genealogy is concerned, but not to them. As such, they try to link each person who passes away to a family. Basically, the LDS believe strongly in family ties - even after death. It is worth reading the reasoning behind the collecting of data that they have. The LDS are not a genealogy organisation as such - they collect information for their own use and for that use it is not necessary to have "proof" in the way we would do so as genealogists. As well as explaining the differences between submitted and extracted records, there is a discussion on exactly why the LDS go to such lengths to collect the data. Somewhere on this forum there is a quite lengthy discussion on the IGI and its reason for existing.
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