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Steve

Steve Report 4 Nov 2004 20:33

I have searched the mormon website familysearch.org, found lots of entries for my family, it shows name, baptism date, birth date and parents, does it show anymore details....

Anne

Anne Report 4 Nov 2004 20:46

You can find marriages there as well. BUT take care!! Use the IGI as a guide only and look for the notes below the names. If it says 'extracted from local records' it is fairly reliable but if it says 'submitted by....' then take it as someone's guess which may or may not be right. If you visit the archive which holds those parish records you will probably find out more information such as occupation, place of residence, wedding witnesses and most importantly the burial registers. Anne

Steve

Steve Report 4 Nov 2004 20:49

thanks anne, i've found lots of records for Palmer, parents William Palmer and Elizabeth

Twinkle

Twinkle Report 4 Nov 2004 20:52

The Pedigree resource file is worse for accuracy, there are some great tales of women being 180 giving birth to a man listed as her father and so forth, or of men marrying themselves etc. Like Anne said, extracts are as reliable as any other transcript, submissions can be pure fantasy.

BarneyKent

BarneyKent Report 8 Nov 2004 08:35

Hi Steve, Treat the IGI as what its title says it is: an index, no more, no less. Anne and Kate's advice is correct - take care. However it is a really useful tool to use in building your family tree. I used the IGI to construct a PROVISIONAL family tree and labelled it as such. Then I used each name and link as a reference point and when I had verified a fact from another source - e.g. Birth/Marriage/Death certificates, census returns, Parish records, etc. I entered it on a separate, (factual), tree. Slowly, (over months rather than weeks), the factual tree began to resemble the provisional, but it is still not as big or far-ranging. Makes interesting viewing. but it is still not the exact truth. I have 2 trees - the Provisional one which shows what my ancestry COULD BE, and an Actual Tree which shows what I can PROVE. Good Ancestor hunting. regards from Bernie