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Just found a lovely one on IGI

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Unknown Report 23 Oct 2003 19:11

Hi, The IGI is great for setting up the basics of your ancestral tree, but every piece of information you find needs to be checked against original documentation, eg birth, marriage and death certificates, parish records etc. Some of the informants were I think a little over-diligent in finding bodies to bring "into the fold", or errors were made in transcription, so some of the information is not 100% reliable. Di.

Hayley

Hayley Report 23 Oct 2003 14:36

Thanks for that, i just managed to find out about my great great great grandad!

Hayley

Hayley Report 23 Oct 2003 13:51

i will go and have a look. thank you!

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}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){ Report 23 Oct 2003 13:30

Hayley You will find the IGI on the Family search site along with the 1881 census. Jeanette

BrianW

BrianW Report 23 Oct 2003 13:24

IGI = International Geneological Index. Basically a register of events such as births, marriages and deaths (otherwise known as hatching, matching and despatching).

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

Hayley

Hayley Report 23 Oct 2003 13:21

what is IGI?

Dave & Sally

Dave & Sally Report 23 Oct 2003 12:31

Just a quick comment. My unfortunate relative was buried 10 years before they died. sally

BrianW

BrianW Report 23 Oct 2003 11:11

Am I missing the joke? It only says that he died after 1670: could have been 1720. I make him 64 when he got married, nothing unusual in that, my grandfather remarried at 71. And as for unreliable dates, the 1881 census has my great great grandmother giving birth at 65.

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

Carol

Carol Report 23 Oct 2003 00:42

I know the LDS have baptisms after death, but not sure about marriages.

Janet

Janet Report 22 Oct 2003 23:41

But this was all on one page. Couldn't help laughing. Jan.

Carol

Carol Report 22 Oct 2003 23:40

We may laugh, but it is not difficult to get this on your tree. You find the birth. You enter it on your tree You know that the death is after a certain year. You enter this Then you find the marriage. Forget to change the death after date. Easy done.

MaggyfromWestYorkshire

MaggyfromWestYorkshire Report 22 Oct 2003 23:36

I know the IGI can be a bit unreliable, but that is really taking the mickey!! Maggy

Patricia

Patricia Report 22 Oct 2003 23:35

David blaine was that his name ??? LOL

Janet

Janet Report 22 Oct 2003 23:34

Birth: 1638 Death: After 1670 Marriage: 1702. Jan.

Janet

Janet Report 22 Oct 2003 23:34

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