Michael, I didn't know that since I hadn't ordered films for quite a while. I was planning a trip to the LDL this week to order some films. Looks as if I may be in for a surprise. I've also noticed that many of the former researcher's work are not available to the public anymore. Everytime I find someone who has done work on a line in my family and I have hit a brickwall on the family, those records submitted are not available to me. The whole purpose of sending our work to SLC in the past was to help others in the future who may be searching our lines. I too have made hard copies of IGI fische in the past and now find it very helpful. One of them shows my grandfather's birth and christening in Paisley. His brother who was b. two years later (1854) is still listed in the IGI. That brother died young and did not marry or leave children. I also share my work with others in my family. Janet In a message dated 5/7/2006 11:39:54 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: 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 > >