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Subject: Re: IGI Definition
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:12:31 EDT
In a message dated 07/07/00 09:44:34 GMT Daylight Time,
writes:
<< Could someone explain what the IGI actually is? I always assumed it
was an index to those BMD records that the LDS had microfilmed. There
are records however that I know have been filmed but do not appear in
the IGI.
It is simply a collection of information - mostly births/christenings,
marriages and parent/child links - which researchers have turned up and sent
in to Salt Lake City. It has nothing to do with the *Civil* BMD records
Is the IGI still being added to? ie. could it be that they have not
yet added those records I searched for?
>>
Entirely possible. The IGI is updated every three or four years, and afaik
the latest "Addendum" conatins material submitted up to late 1998
Mike Stone - Peterborough, England
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