FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org) has been tinkering with its International Genealogical Index (IGI) once again. Until recently when you accessed the IGI it gave you two options on the same page for the results, derived from the Community Indexed IGI (indexes to original records) and the Community Contributed IGI (indexes from patrons and seemingly from the land of fiction in some cases!).
When you access the IGI now, the following message is currently being displayed at the top in a blue banner:
Searching the International Genealogical Index (IGI) has changed. Names in the IGI come from two different sources: indexed historical records and user contributions. Previously, users could search both types simultaneously. They are now searched separately. Search the Indexed International Genealogical Index below. Search the Contributed International Genealogical Index using Search Genealogies.
So to summarise - landing on the IGI page now gives you access to indexed records only. Community contributed records, previously in the database, are now accessible on a different page called Search Genealogies.
COMMENT: From a Scottish point of view, I gave up on the online hosted IGI a very long time ago, because it was an impossible to control database, returning absolute nonsense with many searches. The same records extracted from OPRs and other church denominations are also available on the Scotland page within the Scotland Births and Baptisms 1564-1950 collection and the Scotland Marriages 1561-1910 collections, which do work no problem, and which have been my go to pages for some time.
NB: I have no idea why the 'Ireland Births and Baptisms 1620-1881' database is currently listed on the Scotland page, except to say that I do often refer to myself as coming from a wee island off the coast of Scotland - in that sense, it is correct!
Chris
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