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From: "Don Shadick" <>
Subject: Re: Batch Numbers
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 03:18:24 -0400
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Stella, Jayne, & Listers,
I am wondering if there is a way to correct the incorrect data on IGI?
We have all found data that has been entered incorrectly, however if each
individual when they found mistakes sent the correct data into IGI, with the
correct source number, then in time IGI would become a very usable document.
Plus many of us could save a lot of time and money in not having to purchase
and wait for information from England.
We all complain about the sad state IGI is in, well, why don't we do
something about the problem?
Does anyone know who to correspond with at IGI so the correct data may
be entered?
Listers, please provide your thoughts on this subject.
Sincerely, Don in the USA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stella Howlett" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 02:10 AM
Subject: Re: Batch Numbers


> Jayne,
>
> Any deaths that you see in the IGI are from private submissions and
> are not always very reliable. Often they are just guesses. The LDS
> aren't interested in deaths or burials, and their controlled
> extractions don't include either of them. The IGI should only ever be
> used as a direction pointer. As one lister has pointed out, one can
> very easily compile generations one's family tree using the IGI
> without realising that one or two of those links actually died in
> infancy or childhood. The IGI is not a substitute for actual research
> in the parish records.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stella Howlett
> BC, Canada
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jayne perry <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Batch Numbers
>
>
> > Hi Noel,
> >
> > I am an avid user of the IGI site and have used the one you quote
> below.
> > I was interested in what you said about burials. I haven't seen
> burials, but
> > I have seen lots of deaths. So I have been able to tell when some of
> my
> > ancestors died.
> > Are you saying that it is just the Hugh Wallis pages that don't
> don't have
> > any death records?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jayne
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Noel Clark" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:00 PM
> > Subject: Batch Numbers
> >
> >
> > > The site to visit is
> > >
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.ht
> m#
> > > Page
> > >
> > > The records entered in to the LDS Familysearch database are in
> batches,
> > > usually corresponding to parts of parish registers, but also to
> > > information submitted by members of the LDS church pertaining to
> their
> > > own family history.
> > >
> > > For example, let us suppose that you are interested in the parish
> of
> > > Freston, Suffolk. By going to the web site shown above, you can
> look up
> > > the batch numbers pertaining to Freston. You then go to
> > > www.familysearch.org and, following the instructions there, use
> these
> > > batch numbers to display all of the entries (if any) in the
> register for
> > > the surname(s) of interest to you. Try the surname BLOSS in
> Freston as
> > > an example.
> > >
> > > The advantage of this method is that you get all of the entries in
> one
> > > or two hits.
> > >
> > > HOWEVER ......
> > >
> > > Points to note:
> > >
> > > Not all parishes have batch numbers.
> > >
> > > There is no guarantee that the database contains all of the
> entries in
> > > the parish register.
> > >
> > > You have no idea of the accuracy of the data, gaps in the data,
> the
> > > condition of the original registers, etc. etc. The LDS data may
> have
> > > been derived from the original register, or, and often, from a
> previous
> > > transcription.
> > >
> > > As always with the LDS, you get no burials. Many is the family
> tree
> > > built on an ancestor who died in infancy!
> > >
> > > So it is imperative to look at the original records before using
> the LDS
> > > data to compile a family tree.
> > >
> > > What is important about the LDS database is what is NOT THERE
> rather
> > > than what is.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Noel
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>


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