Helen W Hamilton wrote: >  > > I found an entry in the IGI that I wanted more information on, but under > Source it said No Source Information. Under messages it said Submitted by a > member of LDS after 1991. > Why are entries allowed where there is no source information provided? This > was an entry for a marriage in 1860, nothing regarding anyone possibly still > alive. > > Helen Sometime around 1991, the Temples introduced a new computer-based program called Temple Ready (TR for short); TR takes your PAF database and strips off everything but what you see on the IGI (name, bd, bp, parents or name, md, mp, spouse). The reason it strips off everything else is: many of us had lots of extraneous material in our NOTES -- such as, in 1995, some people copied the *entire* census enumeration list into the NOTES for each person named on the family census; others copied entire probate proceedings or a chapter from a book. Leaving all that in would swell the size of the computer needed to store it past "all HD capacity in the world". Additionally, it might violate the personal privacy of someone named in the NOTES. So TR doesn't transfer that to the Temple computer. Then by 1995, at least one Temple was refusing any submission not on a floppy disc (one exception). So the source in all those cases is "patron submission". When I asked why the patron's contact info couldn't be included as the "source", the issue of privacy protection came up, and I was pointed to the Ancestral File (now, I'm told to look in the PRF) where the same info with more detail was available *IF* the submitter agreed. Which is why researchers should use the IGI as a pointer, not a fact. FWIW & I HTH Cheryl