Donna wrote: >.... I am not certain, but the IGI, usually a bit more reliable than the Ancestral File.... Donna, Whether the IGI is more reliable depends on how the info was put into the index. There are two main ways, either by extraction, where volunteers extract all info from an original source, such as a film of birth records in NJ Vital Statistics, or a person compiles information from many sources, and then sends in the information. So it can be very reliable or subject to the skill of the submitter depending on which way it was sumbitted.. The Ancestral File is of course all compiled and about as reliable/unreliable as other compiled pedigrees on the internet. Anita