Sunday, August 17, 2008

IGI Batch Numbers

I don’t know if I haven’t been paying attention or if this is new to http://www.familysearch.org. Please see this page for the explanations of the batch files http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm .

I went to familysearch and ran some names through it and got several types of results:
  1. Messages: Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church.
  2. Messages: Record submitted by a member of the LDS Church.
  3. Messages: Record submitted by a member of the LDS Church. (Has a Batch Number)
  4. Messages: Extracted birth or christening record for locality listed in the record. (Has a Batch Number)
  5. Messages: No source document or additional information exists. LDS Church membership record of a deceased person. (Has a Batch Number)

In my opinion the IGI is still just an index and shouldn't be used as more than just a clue, but only the last 2 came from real records and the others you just can’t verify the accuracy of the information.

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