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 In a message dated 5/7/2006 10:34:03 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Janet I also had a relative that was listed in the OPRs on the IGI in the mid 1990s and disappeared in the newer records after 2000. I found him on Scotlandspeople in 2004/5, but I heard that people are regularly pulled out of the IGI records for many reasons including requests by the submitter or his family. I Have no idea of the truth of that and wish some knowledgeable person would straighten it out for me. The IGI is still one of the best places to start. Michael On 5/7/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > I first wish to commend the person or persons who have made all the IGI > Batch > numbers available on the internet. They have done a wonderful job in > helping > all of us find our ancestors. > > I am having a problem accessing my grandfather on the Refrew, Paisley > site. > I found him some time ago in the OPR listings, in fact found him > twice. Once > for the birth and again for the confirmation. While searching for other > relatives in Paisley recently I noticed that my grandfather is no longer > listed. > Has his record somehow fallen through the cracks and is now lost to future > researchers? > > Janet > >

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 > >