Jenelle, If you find that article, I would love to find out why they were sealed. I have asked at the FHL for an explanation of the sealings, but was never given an explanation. Just put off. Janet In a message dated 5/8/2006 12:09:57 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: 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 > > > > > >