I'm not a member of the LDS, so I'm speaking as an observer. My understanding from LDS friends is that the organization now has people vetting new submissions to the ancestral files and the IGI. Older submissions weren't vetted and often were not accurate. Generally I use LDS postings as guidelines on places to look. But the same is true of ancestry.com's OneWorldTree. A lot of the posted information is undocumented, and some of it is wrong, too. If you can't go to the places where your ancestors lived, the LDS Family History Centers at least provide access to a lot of historical records on microfilm. Richard Aurand Sherer

Question: Does anyone know if Ancestry.com and it's products, such as One World Tree, are affiliated with the LDS church? All of the principals graduated from BYU. Ann