"When reading the IGI on the FamilySearch website, you should always go to the
"Source Call" link, click on it and you will be taken to another screen inside
the Family History Library Catalogue. This will tell you the precise source of
the entry, i.e. whether from a parish register or a "patron submission". I have
noted when going to the "Source Call" that many entries seem to have been filmed
from the Bishop's Transcripts rather than the registers (BTs were copies of the
registers sent annually by the incumbent to the Bishop). This is because in the
early days of the IGI when many parish registers were still in the hands of the
incumbents, many clerics would not allow the Mormons to film their registers, so
they had to go to the BTs which were usually in the County Record Office or
Diocesan Record Office."
David Meredith - Nottingham
----- Original Message -----
From: "William N H Heath" <hampden(a)bigpond.net.au>
To: <CATLEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 8:46 AM
Subject: Fw: [CAT...] Essex Cat(t)leys
I ordered the film from the LDS and have been reading it in one of
their
libraries,
so they obviously have access to it. I suppose I could always ask them.
I also remember seeing a map, when I was in the Cornish Records Office (in
Truro) which showed the coverage of the IGI in Cornwall, and Gwennap didn't
seem to be covered at all. I think there were some church authorities who
declined to let the LDS film their records. May be wrong about that.
kayh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Meredith-Fam-Hist" <meredith_meredith(a)ntlworld.com>
To: <CATLEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [CAT...] Essex Cat(t)leys
> This may simply be a case of which source was made available to the LDS and
> as a consequence, what actually survives and is legible.
>
> I know that in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, the majority of the IGI
> entries for these counties is based on the Bishops' Transcripts not the
> Parish Registers.
>
> David Meredith - Nottingham
>
>
>
>> Funny that Mick should say this, because I have been going through the PR's
>> for
>> St Marys C of E , in Tadcaster (Yorks) and have found entries, which
>> although
>> pretty clearly written, are just not included in the IGI. There are parts
>> which
>> are very hard to read, as these entries were basically all the in 1700's,
>> but about
>> 85% is fairly readable, yet there doesn't seem to be a huge lot of St
Mary's
>> stuff
>> transcribed.
>>
>> I don't know whether the IGI is a work
>> in progress, but certainly it pays to look at the original records.
>
>
>
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