This is an evaluation of the German record collection found on the LDS site. In my families case we hired a very good professional record searcher and genealogist in Germany some 20 years ago. (He could read the old German script). It took us 7 years to find our ancestor and he generated a lot of data for us including one false start. Based on what he found for us it is my opinion that the LDS records are very accurate in regards to dates and place names. There may however be a small problem with surnames. In my case I found NO variations in the LDS records i cases where our researcher had reported such. This may be due to the fact that our researcher looked at records which the LDS did not (yet). All of the LDS records I saw were birth and marriage. There were no confirmations or burial records that I could see so it is quite possible that there is more to come.