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From: Gordon Banks <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Bibliography - IGI Entries
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 13:08:55 -0700
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On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 11:43 -0700, wrote:

> >
> > Ordinance records are only of interest to LDS researchers, except that in
> > order for the ordinances to be performed there must be certain
> > Birth/Christening, Marriage, or Death/Burial information submitted. This
> > vital information then would have the same reliability as submitted records
> > (meaning, not much), whereas the ordinance information itself comes from
> > church documentation of temple ordinances and should be considered a primary
> > source (primary for the ordinance events only, not for the auxiliary BMD
> > information).
> >

However, the vital information on the ordinance records for the living
are supplied by the persons themselves, so should be considered primary
as much as the census is. They ask your birthdate and where you were
born, etc.

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