[ANSTHRLD] 16th century IGI parish transcriptions

[Yin Mei Li]

Magnus asked:

> Will the SCA accept the English parish register transcripts from pre 1650
> era that the LDS has published in the IGI?

Not from the IGI itself, because of the uneveness in scholarship of those 
allowed to enter information (virtually anybody).  However, for what Yin 
understands is a modest fee, one can obtain a photocopy of the record used 
to enter the information IF the entry is based on something like a scholarly 
preservation of a primary source (say, a parish registry).  That's because 
even the Catholic Church hired the LDS preservationist-geneologist folk to 
microfilm such primary sources in many locations.  Yin knows of several 
people who have used such photocopies to document their names and/or 
spellings thereof because said photocopy is literally a 2nd generation copy 
of that primary source.

So, the IGI is a good starting point.  But it isn't, in and of itself, the 
end.  One needs to go to the next level in that system, and it usually costs 
something.  Which cost should be borne by the submitter, not the herald.

YIS
--Yin Mei Li