Lisa, you are also correct. Using the LDS records is a good starting place where you can gather hints to follow in your research. Again I say, if Ancestry doesn't have a viewable picture of a file, then the data is merely assumed from some other source, usually the Yates Publishing Co., which extracts data from anywhere, usually from other posted data by users at various web sites. Sarge At 9/6/2011 07:21 PM Tuesday, Lisa deGruyter wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >The same applies to the LDS Familysearch IGI. But at least it is free, >and the hits that you get there which have church names shown are almost >always from the actual church record. You can click on the source to >see exactly where it came from. I take the ones that are not from >actual records with a more than a grain of salt. > >I have found the entries for the German church records tremendously >helpful in locating likely villages to order the microfilmed records. > >Lisa >==== >Lisa deGruyter >Clarksburg, West Virginia >http://ldeg.wordpress.com > > >On 9/6/2011 6:35 PM, gneolog@aol.com wrote: >> I wanted to point out to everyone using the International marriage records from ancestry that these dates were just extracted from family group sheets and pedigrees in many cases so please BEWARE. >> >> Here is the info on this source. >> >> >> >> Source Information >> Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, queries. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ******** >> Hear Steve Hoffman of Madison County October 1, 2011 at Graves Mountain Lodge, Madison, VA speak on What's in the Attic at Hebron Lutheran Church. For more information: http://germannacolonies.org >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANS-VA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >******** >Hear Steve Hoffman of Madison County October 1, 2011 at Graves Mountain Lodge, Madison, VA speak on What's in the Attic at Hebron Lutheran Church. For more information: http://germannacolonies.org > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANS-VA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/index.html