Transcription Sources

[Kirk Dawson]

Just a short reminder on the issue of using the IGI as a source for transcriptions into FreeREG.

The following is the current view as expressed in the FAQ of FreeREG.

The IGI is an index of records in some (but not all) parish registers. However, it does belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and as with all such material should not be used as a source for transcription without their explicit permission. The IGI, being an index, only contains partial information from parish registers, and we need more than that for our database. The IGI also contains records which are not from parish registers, but submitted from LDS church members from their own research.
The short answer is therefore no. What we want is data from the primary source, i.e. the actual parish register.

Posted on behalf of the FreeREG Project Team.

Kirk Dawson