[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Does LDS have a Volhynia database?

[Worth Anderson]

Not per se, but in their databases there are some Germans who lived in Poland, Ukraine and Russia.

www.familysearch.org has various collections, but I'm guessing you are referring to the International Genealogical Index (IGI), Ancestral File and Pedigree Resource File.

THe IGI is supposed to be -- like the name says -- an index; specifically, it is an index of persons for whom certain LDS rites have been performed.   Whether a person appears in the IGI depends on whether their name either appeared in records from which birth or marriage data was extracted, or was submitted for temple work by an individual.

The Ancestral File was supposed to be a large database of compiled genealogical research.  Unfortunately, it was plagued from the start by problems with poor research and (very) faulty merging of data from multiple submitters.  In 1996 it was decided these problems were intractable, and the Family History Library stopped accepting new submissions.  Whether someone appears in it depends on whether a researcher submitted research including that person before the Family History Library stopped accepting submissions.  The Ancestral File can be a goldmine, but information found there should be treated with caution, and confirmed with independent research.
 
The Pedigree Resource File replaced the Ancestral File.  Again, whether a given person appears in it depends on whether another researcher has sent in a GEDCOM file containing that person.

www.familysearch.org also contains a pilot record search program, where some digitized microfilm are available, including duplicates of Russian Lutheran Church books.

--- On Thu, 3/12/09, Chris Menke <prussialives at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Chris Menke <prussialives at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Does LDS have a Volhynia database?
> To: "Volhynia Listserver" <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 1:47 PM
> I was wondering: in the LDS databases
> are there Volhynian and Russian-Poland sections?
>  
> Thanks,
> Chris Menke
> 
> 
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