Dear Maggie: You wrote... Just how reliable is the IGI? After looking through it (on the LDS Familysearch page) More than once, I found two or three separate entries for a same individual, sometimes with identical information, sometimes with slightly different information. In my experience, the IGI contains two kinds of information. One is, as you have experienced, a collection that seems to originate in the submission of data as part of the project that leads to the Ancestral File and the members of the LDS church meeting their obligation to extend their family in the church by genealogical work. However, the IGI also contains data extracted over the years from the project the church has undertaken to collect and preserve records. For instance, many British Parish Registers (b, m, d) records are collected there. I can remember using them extensively when they were available only on microfiche. So, I would suggest to you that you determine how to separate one of these kinds of data from the other, via the coding system. The transcribed actual records are an extremely valuable resource -- one step removed from the original contemporary record of the event. The others may be taken as clues to other, original sources that will lead you to the information you want by your own efforts. Hope this helps. Allan E. Green