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-The '''[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/igi International Genealogical Index (IGI)]''' is a computer file created by [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. It was first published in 1973 and continued to grow through December 2008. It contains several hundred million entries, each recording one event, such as a birth, baptism (christening), marriage, or death. <br>
+The '''[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/igi International Genealogical Index (IGI)]''' was a computer file created by [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. It was first published in 1973 and continued to grow through December 2008. It contained several hundred million entries, each recording one event, such as a birth, baptism (christening), marriage, or death. In April 2010 FamilySearch divided the IGI into several historical records collections and a user-contributed genealogies collection. The original IGI was then retired in June 2012.<br>
 Information in the IGI came from two sources:
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 | style="text-align: right; white-space: nowrap" | March 1993 &nbsp;
-| The CD-ROM edition took longer. Contained over 200 million names from over 90 countries.
+| CD-ROM edition. Contained over 200 million names from over 90 countries.
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 | style="text-align: right; white-space: nowrap" | July 1994 &nbsp;
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 | style="text-align: right; white-space: nowrap" | 24 May 1999 &nbsp;
 | FamilySearch website released. Not all 285 million IGI entries available immediately, but were released by region.
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+| style="text-align: right; white-space: nowrap" | April 2010 &nbsp;
+| Divided into several historical records collections and a user-contributed collection on a new version of the FamilySearch website.
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+| style="text-align: right; white-space: nowrap" | June 2012 &nbsp;
+| Original IGI retired along with the original FamilySearch website.
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