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THE INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX

The International Genealogical Index, created by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, contains approximately 600 million individual names and other details and includes information copied from many British baptism and marriage records. An addendum to the IGI contains an additional 125 million records and The Ancestoral File database contains appoximately 35.6 million names that are linked into family trees.

The IGI may be consulted on microfiche in Family History Centres, many County Record Offices and some public libraries. Additionally, the information is available on computer at most Family History Centres and may be accessed on the net via the FamilySearch website which permits free searches of this vast data resource. Some caution should, however be exercised when using the IGI - transcription errors are when dealing with data on such a huge scale and it is absolutely vital that all occurrences are checked against the original data source.