IGI Batch Number Descriptions
When using the International Genealogical Index, also known by the acronym 'IGI', one will often find a number associated with the entry. This is the 'batch number' indicating the source type of the record or records created in preparing the information for inclusion in the IGI, especially after the LDS ordinances were completed.
Often it can lead to sources for additional information. Some information was gathered from extracting data from microfilms, while others were from LDS member submissions. The prefixes in the table below are found as part of the batch number you see with the IGI record for that individual.
After 1991, LDS member submission information was not recorded, so all one has is the name and date information, the film containing the temple record shows little more than what you see on the record.
| Batch | Batch Description |
| A |
Archive Sealing. Extracted from Family Group Records Collection, Archive Section, or other temple records. Most of these microfilms are located in Special Collections. You may find the name in the TIB. |
| C | Christening or birth record extraction. Names originally from lists of christenings or births in geographic areas, frequently from Parish and Vital Records. |
| D | Suspended File. Ordinances delayed for several years. |
| E | Early marriage record extraction used for proxy baptisms and endowments. |
| F | Family Entry. Patron submitted family group records. Some dates or places are estimates. |
| H | Ward Record or Deceased Members File of LDS Church. Some ordinances may have been repeated by proxy. |
| I | Index |
| J | Birth or christening extraction |
| K | Birth or christening extraction |
| L | Temple originated |
| M | Marriage extraction |
| M17 | Sealing extractions from Family Group Records |
| P | Birth or christening extraction |
| T000001 | Manual 110 year file from Family Group Records Collection, Archive Section |
| T000011 | Temple Index Bureau (TIB) conversion |
| T5 | Manual 110 year file |
| T90 | Temple Originated Family Group Record taken to a temple by a living child, sibling, or parent of person for whom the ordinance was performed. |
| T96 | Supplemental extries. Information added to the IGI to clarify another entry. |
| T990001 | Either royalty, nobility, peerage, and Medieval (pre 1501) families, or special handling. |
| T9900076 | Either royalty, nobility, peerage, and Medieval (pre 1501) families, or special handling. |
| T998 | Partially completed ordinances. For persons who previously had some LDS ordinances completed, or were entered on the same entry form as such persons. |
| T9990 | Same as above |
| T9991 | Special Services cases |
| All Digits | Entries submitted by individual genealogists, often relatives of the person in the entry. |
| 0 | Temple Service Center entries, usually in the native language |
| 694 | Early LDS membership records. From early ward, branch, and mission records. Baptism may have been repeated by proxy. |
| 6940405 | Minnie Margett's Membership Card Index |
| 69407 | Scandinavian LDS Membership Card Index |
| 69409 | Archive entry lacking ordinances |
| 696 | Special Services |
| 725 | Gibson's Marriage Index |
| 744 | Nordic and others |
| 745 | Vermont, Connecticut, and New Hampshire extraction projects |
| 766 | Special Services project |
| 8-4--- | Polynesian Family Entry |
| 8-5--- | Tuttle project |
| 8-6--- | Family Entry with minimum identification |