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Clive | Report | 3 Jun 2007 10:26 |
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If I have some idea as to where I am interested in I use http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb*com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm#Menu which I have found to be the easiest way of proving I am mad to think of tracing my tree!! It is actually simple to use provided you have some geographic concept of where to look. For somewhere like York I had to look in every parish. Clive |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 3 Jun 2007 10:41 |
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Clive Hugh Wallis is excellent, as far as it goes. Sadly, it has not been updated for years, so you do need to search the IGI directly from the LDS site as well, as there may be many more records transcribed after Hugh Wallis finished his work. OC |
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Clive | Report | 3 Jun 2007 11:25 |
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Heather I have always been told to take LDS info with a pinch of salt. I spent some time looking at a film in our local LDS centre. Frankly I was amazed at the differences between the LDS info and what I was seeing in front of my eyes. The LDS was from Bishops Transcripts. I was looking at Parish Registers. LDS members were adding to LDS records but did not seem concerned about discrepancies. I had found out which film to peruse from the look-up quoted above. Clive |
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Heather | Report | 3 Jun 2007 11:57 |
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Hey Clive, taking my name in vain? LOL I can tell you O.C. is MUCH MUCH more knowledgeable than I will ever be. But as you say, unless you sit there and look with your own eyes (magnifier) then you will never know what the records really say. |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 3 Jun 2007 12:56 |
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Clive What I meant was - the IGI may list transcribed events from parish registers added to the site AFTER Hugh Wallis finished his work. This will lead you to a church you may not know about. ALL transcribed entries need to be checked against original documents,not just LDS stuff, and I personally always go for the original Parish Register, NOT the Bishops Transcripts. To clear up a widely held misunderstanding, the Hugh Wallis site lists SOME records of parish registers, which have been transcribed onto the IGI. Searching through Hugh Wallis merely takes you a shortcut into the IGI - you are looking at the same IGI record, whether you access it from Hugh Wallis, or the LDS. Another, much-underused facility of the LDS site is their library catalogue. They have filmed about 20 times more records than they have transcribed and a look at their catalogue will tell you if they have filmed and/or transcribed the records. (They also have a huge library of other records, books, maps, personal histories and so on.) You can then order the film to view at your nearest LDS centre, for about £3. OC |
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