Just wanted to add a bit more information on the LDS records.
1. Ancestral File - as noted below - submitted by researchers - a repository
of family trees. Some are very good, some are totally horrible.
2. IGI - as noted below - from 2 sources - submitted by researchers, and
extracted from records
3. Pedegree Resource File - replaced the Ancestral File (had a few more
features) - and has same limitations on accuracy.
4. New Family Search - THIS IS A BETA. - currently available only to LDS
members (and that has been slowly rolled out to LDS members 1 geographic
region at a time to limit the number of people and the number of problems.)
I believe the hope is for it to become a large linked tree with
collaboration between people, yet people being able to control the
information they have submitted. It is very ambitious, as some of the
ancestral people entered in it will have hundreds or thousands of
descendants working on the information for them. Information that is in it
comes from various sources - including
a. - Each of the 3 sources of records listed above
b. - LDS Church membership records - records/information of living members
is only available to that person (and maybe their very immediate family
members?) - deceased members have the records available to others.
c. - Information submitted/edted currently by people - This would be where
the Legacy linkup would come in... or other genealogy software - or people
can enter stuff directly. Again - take with a grain of salt. Good thing is
that source information is now able to be submitted, so you can check things
easier.
d. - other???
5 - Family Search - PILOT - This includes the Indexing project, where the
millions (billions?) of microfilmed actual records stored by the LDS church
from various government and (other) church records are being computerized.
I always look forward to seeing more here!!!
As said below (I copied it)
a. Transcriptions of actual parish, govt, records - often with a link
to the image of the actual record. Again, the reliability is no different
than that of any other transcribed source.
b. Images scanned from the microfilmed records not yet transcribed or
indexed. These images are the exact same thing you would see if you went to
a church and viewed the actual parish registers. Or to the state or county
office and viewed the actual record.
Note that on the pilot site, there are also some other little projects that
may or may not be developed furthur. This is available to anyone I
think....
6. - The millions (billions) of microfilmed actual records - available to be
sent to various Family History Libraries worldwide (for basically shipping
costs) for you to view.
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 9:15 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please be careful about lumping all "LDS records" into the same
> category. There are actually several different categories, and the
> reliability varies. Many are indeed "sourced" very accurately.
>
> 1. Ancestral File: Yes, these are records submitted by researchers,
> generally without sources and so must be taken as possibly correct or
> possibly incorrect - but valid as suggestions for where to look for other
> records.
>
> 2. IGI: Some are submitted by researchers. Others are records extracted
> from actual parish records, government records, etc. The batch number and
> the identified source film will identify those records. Those are as
> reliable as any other set of transcribed records- whether it be on Ancestry,
> FreeBMD, FreeREG, etc. The short coming of the extracted records is that
> not all the available information is transcribed. But seeking the
> identified source will provide the extra info.
>
> 3. Pedigree Resource File: Similar to (1) above.
>
> 4. Family Search pilot site: This combines two sets of records.
> a. Transcriptions of actual parish, govt, records - often with a link
> to the image of the actual record. Again, the reliability is no different
> than that of any other transcribed source.
> b. Images scanned from the microfilmed records not yet transcribed or
> indexed. These images are the exact same thing you would see if you went to
> a church and viewed the actual parish registers. Or to the state or county
> office and viewed the actual record.
>
>
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