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Parent Search in IGI
DearREADERS,
The IGI is the International Genealogical Index available for decades at the
Family History Library, and its local Family History Centers on microfiche, then
on CD-ROM, and most recently online at FamilySearch.org. There was a nifty
function on the older CD version called the parent search. This is an important
function since the IGI is not pedigree/family based but EVENT BASED. In a
christening record entry in the IGI, it will list the child's name and the
parent's names, but would not include anything about other children with the
same parents. See how this becomes a problem for one researcher, who made a
posting this morning on the PAF-5 genealogy mailing list at Yahoo:
> With the
present 'Windows version' (after year 2000) of Family
>Search...there is no 'Parent Search' function. The only thing I can do is
>order the Parish Register microfilms from Salt Lake, and search out the
>children the hard way. Then after finding the children's names, go to
>the IGI and get the Temple ordinance data. Seems awful lame?
>
> Is there a reason 'Parent Search' function was not included in present
>version of Family Search?
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This researcher had to be referring to the
FamilySearch CD collection. Note the reply from another researcher:
From: Dana
Repouille
The search at
www.familysearch.org does indeed have a parent search function. Click
the Search tab at the top of the screen, enter the names of
the father and mother, and click the Search button down below. This will
return all the children of these parents in all available
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I would like to qualify Dana's term "all the
children of these parents."
Such a name search will return all instances where
a child is listed as having parents whose names match the search criteria. There
could be
multiple sets of parents correctly named "John Weiser and Mary." My recent
search returned 156 possible children, born from roughly 1751 through 1880 in
Pennsylvania, Illinois, England, Germany and Austria.
Even after narrowing the search by date and
locality, we might continue to note overlapping families in the IGI parent
search at FamilySearch.org. Most of us have lamented over the occurrence of two
families in the same locality, where the parents appear to have the same name.
Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)
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