In a message dated 12/10/2006 5:22:08 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
jdewing(a)bak.rr.com writes:
Hope this is helpful to those of you who haven't had the chan!
ce to do research in one of the many family history centers around the
world. Happy Hunting, Jo
I too agree that Family History Centers are great resources. I do want to
add some warnings though. The microfilm and microfiche records are wonderful
resources but when you get into the user submitted records and church records
(Ancestral File and IGI) remember that information is only as good as the
researcher who submitted it. Be sure to contact the submitter and learn their
sources before accepting anything in those records as accurate. The IGI is
harder to find out the submitter as these are the records from the Church
Temple Work but someone in the Center can help you. As an example of
misinformation in the user-submitted records my great grandfather, Ozro Newton Smith,
was born in Bethlehem Township, Cass County, Indiana but a distant cousin
(related through one of the half-siblings from his father's first marriage) had
submitted his birth location as Bethlehem, Pennsylvania! And you cannot
correct information in the IGI so that is there until the Mormon Church makes some
arrangement to correct such misinformation.
Michelle Gershon
researching Smith, Mader, Huffman and Gehring in Cass County, Indiana
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her
humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
-Elie Wiesel