You must treat IGI, which usually has sources (name extraction project) and Ancestry File (anyone can submit a file to this) as secondary sources. One must go back to original documents if possible, or a reliable researcher (it would be nice to think that we all are classified here as such) for you data. I've found a number of errors in the past and probably will in the future consulting secondary sources and then following them up to the primary source. That's is my motivation for putting the Rathkeale Church records on the Internet. Fortunately you can get a copy of the primary sources (microfiche) from the LDS Family History Library branch near you. Clifford M Dubery -----Original Message----- From: SLWillig [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IP] LDS data Hi, Terry - ><<It was simply LDS data. >> I see. Thanks. ><< I think we should not be too sceptical about the LDS info. I would say >that 98% of the details they give (on Pipers, at least) are exactly as I >recorded them in the Rathkeale Rectory some 20 years ago. >> Well, there are two kinds of LDS data online in that search-able file at www.familysearch.org... One type is IGI, and the other kind consists of family files submitted by church members. For many years church members could submit their family pedigrees without much in the way of a source citation. All those files were simply added to the mix - unverified and often totally undocumented. Even though the IGI information is more reliable than the family files, it is advisable to use it/them only as a starting point from whence to verify the findings... Thanks. Susan ==== IRL-PALATINE Mailing List ==== List Administrator: Susan Laursen Willig [email protected]