IGI And Family History Library - Some Tips On Finding Out Your Past!

The Church of Jesus Christ of LSD or the latter day saint has a family history library. This has more than 300,000 books, two million records in the form of microfilm and microfiche around 400000. There is also a collection of manuscripts as indexes, family and local histories and other documents in support of genealogical research.

This library has a varied collection of information from different countries such as China, Hungary, Chile and the Netherlands. But more emphasis is given to countries like America, Europe, Britain and Canada. With the archives of researchers can search the original documents of the ancestors.

When it comes to the amount of information it holds from the United States, it has several documents from court houses around the country and the regional and state records. The recordings with the census from 1790 and 1920 are also there.

The Family History Library is well known for his extensive knowledge and excellent support. One can to help the staff to make them throughout the search. Family Search computer system and the loan programs between the libraries are another two main sources, in almost all branches of this center of the world.

The International Genealogical Index (IGI)

index houses of the birth and marriage records of all the people in their society, even the dead. It starts initially by the submission of records by two members of the church and others. In 1969 the Church of Latter Saints started the IGI. And however the records from the period before 1970 have been extracted. Improving the extraction program was only to prevent people from starting documents from the church records. There are more than a hundred volunteers involved. They travel the world's film documents. Then the other volunteers will transcribe recordings on this film.

The Family History Library has teamed up with a list of records, the parish and records of crucial importance, which is extracted and in the IGI from almost all geographical areas, deadlines and new records. As a rule of volunteers copying of documents such as birth, death, marriage from the dead, the extraction of these records is not primarily about the ancestral lines of the church members and volunteers.

The IGI has over 250 names in it. Most of the names are received documents that originate from the time of the 16th and 19 Century. But at the same time not all the names in the listed countries and those from the index documents are in the IGI.

However, the names are not reserved to the people who are associated with the members of LSD. The IGI can be accessed anywhere from the family history and library centers throughout the country. Some of the most important genealogical centers and libraries also have this possibility. You can also access through microfiche and CD-ROM.

do not come to the wrong conclusion that all records on the accuracy and IGI from the original. It can always be distinguished. And there is also the possibility that you may find incomplete records. In times of record May contain only data and names. These records, which were complete before 1992. But never the less the Genealogical Index serves as a great and a great source of information.

 

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