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From: Family History Society of Cheshire <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] IGI and Parish Records
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 13:49:01 +0100


The message <004301c10221$3f7cbbc0$>
from "eril and frank" <> contains these words:

> Can someone please enlighten me - I am sorry to bother you with
what is probably obvious! Are IGI records extracted from the films
the LDS church has made? So that if say a baptism is not on the IGI,
it would not be worth searching the parish records filmed by the
church to find it? I am thinking of looking for my ggg-grandfather's
baptism (not found on the IGI) in an area in which the parish records
or bishops' transcripts of most villages seem to have been filmed.

It seems to be a popular misconception that because something has
been filmed by the Mormons then its contents must be in the IGI. But
inputting the entries from just a few pages from a parish register
can take most of a day, so it's definitely quicker to microfilm a
register than to type it up :-)

The IGI for Cheshire is only around 15 to 20% complete, so it always
pays to search the original registers, even if they are among the few
parishes to have whole registers transcribed in full.


Hope this helps,

Brett Langston
The Family History Society of Cheshire
http://www.fhsc.org.uk/

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