England Church Records: Difference between revisions

Many years ago FamilySearch created a major index called the International Genealogical Index or IGI. It contained at the time, both indexed/extracted church register name entries as well as patron submitted names of their ancestors. About 10 years ago, the more reliable extracted church register entries of baptisms and marriages were incorporated into the most current FamilySearch databases. In other words, when searches are run in the [https://www.familysearch.org/search FamilySearch search engine], you are searching the old IGI extracted church record entries. The current IGI as it now stands, contains mostly the old (lesser reliable) patron-submitted name entries.  When you conduct a search in the FamilySearch.org search engine, you are also searching the extracted portion of the old IGI datafile. The IGI does not contain images, and has only a very small fraction of the records. The IGI is best used as a starting point before obtaining images for confirmation and further information. [[IGI Batch Numbers for the British Isles and North America|This wiki page]] provides links to Batch Numbers and precise details of coverage.