I know IGI is used as a cornerstone for a lot of peoples data and information, especially for older data but I'm now begining to question how reliable and accurate this information actually is!
I'm becoming increasingly frustrated at using data from IGI as a source only to check the parish records to find IGI has errors, which you could just about except as human error but I'm now finding some information is just completely wrong, I'm left scratching my head wondering where and how they come by this information in the first place. A prime example, looking for Andrew Wortley bapt. 1642 Castor, Northampton. When you check the parish records for Castor the date given is for Ann Wortley, there is no Andrew in the Castor records at all and when you check the parish records even further Andrew was bapt. in Gainsborough on a different date in 1642 that IGI doesn't have. This is only one example of many I've found.
Sorry to sound so negative but when you look at other peoples trees on the web you can find they've used IGI data and gone off in completley the wrong direction which leads to another problem, how do you tell someone their beloved family tree and hard work is wrong????
Does anyone know when and more importantly how the data from IGI was actually compiled.
Again sorry to sound so negative about what some people may consider an essential database and for the long winded message but I just thought I'd get this off my chest.
From a slightly less frustrated....
BourneGooner:(
I'm becoming increasingly frustrated at using data from IGI as a source only to check the parish records to find IGI has errors, which you could just about except as human error but I'm now finding some information is just completely wrong, I'm left scratching my head wondering where and how they come by this information in the first place. A prime example, looking for Andrew Wortley bapt. 1642 Castor, Northampton. When you check the parish records for Castor the date given is for Ann Wortley, there is no Andrew in the Castor records at all and when you check the parish records even further Andrew was bapt. in Gainsborough on a different date in 1642 that IGI doesn't have. This is only one example of many I've found.
Sorry to sound so negative but when you look at other peoples trees on the web you can find they've used IGI data and gone off in completley the wrong direction which leads to another problem, how do you tell someone their beloved family tree and hard work is wrong????
Does anyone know when and more importantly how the data from IGI was actually compiled.
Again sorry to sound so negative about what some people may consider an essential database and for the long winded message but I just thought I'd get this off my chest.
From a slightly less frustrated....
BourneGooner:(
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