tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post6540369692538049332..comments2023-04-20T12:46:11.858-06:00Comments on The Ancestry Insider: What is the IGI?The Ancestry Insiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-84926945421211154932011-01-03T04:53:11.293-07:002011-01-03T04:53:11.293-07:00AI, you say "I think the original, idealized ...AI, you say "I think the original, idealized objective of the IGI was the creation of one (and only one) entry for each person who has ever lived and one (and only one) entry for each husband and wife. In practice, duplications were unavoidable and in recent years were even allowed to accelerate."<br /><br />It would be interesting to hear about earlier history of the IGI.<br /><br />But at least in the 1970s and 1980s editions, IGI contained items keyed in from books, genealogical newsletters, family group sheets, and whatever else was sent to the Library.<br /><br />So a marriage of John and Barbara (with incorrect surname for her and incorrect parentage for John) was keyed in from a 1936 book, from each family group sheet copying from the book, from a 1960s book copying from the 1936 book, from a 1962 self-published work copied from the 1936 book, from a 1970s book copying from the 1962 work, from a 1982 book copying from the 1936 book and the 1962 work, from a 1984 book by the 1936 author (citing himself as authority), and innumerable family group sheets and uploaded files over the decades copied from the foregoing.<br /><br />Then a researcher in 1980s found actual documentation of correct ancestry of Barbara and of John and a few submitters began using the correct data in submitted family group sheets, Ancestral Files, etc., that were also duly keyed in to IGI.<br /><br />The supposed purge of family group sheet submissions ca. 1991 did not prevent subsequent submitters from copying from the above or from others' quotations from prior IGI versions. Since Ancestral File and Pedigree Resource File entries that happened to have the documented correct data were not keyed in to IGI, IGI still has large numbers of entries for John and Barbara with emphasis on wrongness.<br /><br />The thinking that went into using IGI as the basis of newFamilySearch Tree is mind-boggling to contemplate.Geoloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12050268303916428230noreply@blogger.com