Ray, If by "discounted" you are suggesting that all LDS submissions should be ignored altogether, then I must disagree. I would agree that a healthy scepticism may be justified. The IGI currently shows three entries listing the Christening of my 5g-grandfather, Joseph Suell at Great Musgrave, Westmorland, 1685 - one extracted, two submitted. All agree on the date and father's name, but his mother's name only appears on one of the submitted entries. The entry on the film of the relevant parish register is extremely difficult to decipher, but I did manage to verify the submitted mother's name after a fair amount of eye-straining examination. I would give top marks to that particular submitter. Cheers, Tim S. (please delete myfairlyobviousspamtrap if you wish to reply directly) ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray Hennessy To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 12:23 AM Subject: [genealogy] Re: [ABERDEEN] Morrison Hi Marion If you search the IGI for William GRANT births in Aberdeen(shire) for the period 1795 +/- 5 years, you get 15 "hits" of which four are "LDS submissions" and should be discounted.

On 28 February 2010 08:07, tim sewell <postmantim3@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > Ray, > > If by "discounted" you are suggesting that all LDS submissions should be ignored altogether, then I must disagree.  I would agree that a healthy scepticism may be justified. > > The IGI currently shows three entries listing the Christening of my 5g-grandfather, Joseph Suell at Great Musgrave, Westmorland, 1685 - one extracted, two submitted.  All agree on the date and father's name, but his mother's name only appears on one of the submitted entries.  The entry on the film of the relevant parish register is extremely difficult to decipher, but I did manage to verify the submitted mother's name after a fair amount of eye-straining examination.  I would give top marks to that particular submitter. _____________________________________ Fair point, Tim. I was really referring to those entries where there is *only* an LDS submission. Where is it supported by an extracted entry then usually the LDS entry can be ignored. Your case is a rare but important one where LDS did prove valuable outside their own field of interest. Of course for Scottish records we have Scotland's People who are pretty good at indexing and, where wrong [I've found two!], they are willing and anxious to correct their index. -- Best wishes Ray ********************************************************** >From                                      Ray Hennessy Forenames website:                www.whatsinaname.net Preferred Email address:         ray@whatsinaname.net Hints for Scotland's People at   http://bit.ly/WIAN-SCP **********************************************************