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The IGI and The Ancestral File

• The IGI does not cover every parish in England. A great number are not included.
• For those parishes which it does cover, there may be whole periods missing.
• For those which it does cover, there may be omissions of individual records even in the covered periods.
• Some entries in the IGI are from the Bishop's Transcripts and not the original registers, and the BTs themselves are prone to errors and omissions. (Having said that, even the original registers may have entries missing which are in the BTs and vice versa).
• You may find more than one entry in the index for the same event with conflicting information.
• Bear in mind that the IGI is primarily an index of ordinances carried out by LDS members as part of ther religion, rather than an index of parish registers.
• Some entries in the IGI are from submissions by individual LDS members rather than from parish registers, and many of these are very prone to errors. Be very wary of entries which have an "@" symbol beside them or which state a birth date (rather than a baptism date), or which state a date as being "about".