Hi Jenelle, I too would be interested in the LDS sealings information. Athalie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kristina Cameron" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:19 PM Subject: RE: [Renfrew] missing OPR's > Yes! me too please Janelle. > > -----Original Message----- > From: michael paton [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, 8 May 2006 5:15 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Renfrew] missing OPR's > > Janelle > YES! Please dig. I would truely like to know and understand what and why. > Thankyou for the offer > Michael > > > On 5/8/06, Jenelle McCarrick <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have an interesting article I photocopied from a family history >> magazine >> re the LDS "Sealings" I would have to dig for it. Might explain (like >> mine) >> "missing relatives and why they were sealed. >> Jenelle. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "michael paton" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 2:39 PM >> Subject: Re: [Renfrew] missing OPR's >> >> >> > Janet >> > My pet peeves with them have been the occasional film that they >> > list >> as >> > having, but they won't send it to the churchs. You must plan a trip to >> Utah >> > to see them. They must have many members on the tourist commision. Also >> I >> > keep bumping into a researcher who has been there ahead of me (by 30 or >> 40 >> > years) and somehow locked the records of his search so I can't see what >> he >> > found or why he was looking there But many members of my family have >> been >> > sealed? I guess attitudes have changed since the internet but it is a >> shame >> > that a researcher goes to all that trouble to have the information >> locked >> > away from future generations. My information gets sent to the cousins >> > so >> all >> > have a copy and if my computer crashes the data can be easily rebuilt >> > because I sent them copies of each document. >> > Even with running into these problems I was able to blunder my way >> into >> a >> > great deal of information on the IGI and check it often for things I >> > may >> > have missed. I usually get a hard copy of everything, since that was >> > the >> > only way I was able to prove what I saw in the 1990s before >> GGGrandfather >> > disappeared from the IGI. It also helped me find him later on >> > Scotlandspeople. >> > Michael >> > >> > >> > On 5/7/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > > Michael, >> > > I found my grandfather on the IGI fische in the 1980's at a Mormon >> library >> > > near where I lived then. I found him again on the internet igi, then >> he >> > > disappeared. His record both times was taken from a film of the >> church >> > > records taken >> > > by the LDS. Fortunately I wrote to Scotland years ago for his birth >> > > record >> > > after I found it on the OPR, but I wonder how many other people are >> > > missing a >> > > relative or ancestor because of the missing OPR records. Seems such >> > > a >> > > shame >> > > when the LDS does so much good in helping people find records and as >> you >> > > said, >> > > the IGI is still the best place to start looking. >> > > >> > > Janet >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> >> > >