On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:41:16 +0000 (UTC), Barbara
One of my cousins, a Mormon, has entered the entire contents of my tree onto the IGI and has made some big mistakes.
If you take what he's entered as being correct a sizeable portion of my family had birthdays in April, married in April and died in April. They didn't. I'd found the relevant entries in the GRO indices but hadn't got all the certificates (and still haven't). He's shown two people as one solely on the basis that they were baptised on the same date. He's shown my grandmother as having an alias when it was actually an award. There is a key on the chart, so it's all carelessness on his part. He hasn't shown any sources, yet it is all sourced. The only "good" thing is that he's portrayed it as *his* work.
FAMILY SEARCH 347Anyone can submit entries to the LDS but remember it wont be able to be corrected in any way shape or form in the...
I have some additional data now, but he won't be getting it because he didn't even have the courtesy to tell me what he was going to do. I should have guessed, of course, but it just never occurred to me.
Maybe the above will give you some idea as to how erroneous data can be entered into the IGI.
Of course, the IGI was never intended to be a genealogical aid but it was nevertheless useful for that purpose. I use it now mainly for the 1881 census because there are so many patron submissions.
