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All! I can attest to the fact that
not all film is on the IGI. I was
looking for the birth record of my maternal grandmother who was born in Sierra
Mojada, Coahuila and it wasn’t on the IGI but I went and ordered the microfilm
and found her – and found that she had a twin brother!!!! I thought, though,
that this was a standard thing and not to take the IGI data, or lack thereof,
to heart and to keep looking.
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Delgado
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From: Victor Villarreal
[mailto:vela_este@...]
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005
11:51 AM
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ranchos] Re: % of Films
Transcribed to IGI
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Hello Jose,
Thanks for your message and for your magnificent work. I suppose
there are many more volunteers like you. The work you have done
ís
outstanding, to say the least!
So, if I understand correctly, even for those batch numbers that are
already published on the IGI database, is it possible that you might
have skipped one or more of those illegible entries? How frequently
are you faced with a situation like this?
Well, that means that even if we haven't found a particular record on
the IGI there's still hope that we could find it in the microfilm
itself. And that goes also for the records in those microfilms that
haven't been captured yet, of course.
Anyway, back to the original question. Do you have an idea, just an
approximation about the percentage of films that have already been
transcribed to the IGI?
Thanks again!
Victor
--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "zendean" <usa20@e...>
wrote:
> Joseph; Yes, I am one of the those volunteers that
does "extraction" from the films for posting. It takes a long
time
because I can't do it full time and there are names that I come
across that I have never seen before and have no clue as to what they
are. Especially the Indian names and the ancient fathers spelled
names as they sounded. Two different fathers will spell a name
different for the same person - baptism and later marriage. Maybe we
haven't gotten to the records in question yet. It is a slow process.
>
> Jose
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joseph Puentes
> To: esteban vela ; LosRanchos
> Cc: Jonathan Walker
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 3:58 PM
> Subject: [ranchos] % of Films Transcribed to IGI
>
>
> Well I'm thinking about it and I'm taking this discussion
to the
group. . .
>
> oh absolutely I understand what you are asking now. Yes
yes it
takes volunteers to transscribe the info off of the films to then
input into the IGI and other databases. When it comes down to it I'm
sure that only a very small % of the films available are online. If
you want Valpariso maybe you should call SLC and ask them about
it. . .hey maybe you could be one of the volunteer transcribers
though it would take an enormous amount of time. I'm going to forward
this conversation to Jonathan Walker to see if he might care to
comment.
>
> Jonathan what % of the films would you guess are on the
IGI? This
discussion started because we couldn't find any info on those PDF
files for Valparaiso.
>
> Jonathan. . .Do you know if there is a list of films on
microfiche available for Mexico but not necessarily transcribed onto
the IGI?
>
> thanks,
>
> joseph
>
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