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Old 07-10-2011, 22:23   #26
WillowTheWhisp
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Re: Jacob Hargreaves - born 1812, Accrington

To whom specifically did you direct your query? If it was one of the volunteers at the Family History Centre they may not have known the answer.

It also depends which 'crap' you are querying. Some LDS records are films of original parish records, census returns; some are filmed copies of the GRO indexes of births marriages and deaths. As such they are no less accurate than the original documents. Other records are computerised transcripts of filmed records. These are input by different people and checked by independant adjudicators where there is any discrepancy. The church has worked alongside Ancestry dot com and also has many non member volunteers doing the transcribing. These records are as accurate as humanly possible.

Then there are the IGI records which are kept by the church but which have been submitted by individual members - those are only as reliable as the person submitting them and should always be backed up with reference to original documents. There are also personal family trees which have been made available to the public. These are submitted by members and non-members alike and again are only as reliable as the person submitting them but in these days of computerisation a lot of older anomalies are being clarified on an ongoing basis.

Does that cover your query or was there something specific you were particularly concerned about?
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