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Title: Looking for an image of an old IGI microfiche page (not specific, any will do)
Post by: stevemiller on Saturday 09 December 23 16:32 GMT (UK)

Lots (?) of people will remember the old IGI (International Genealogical Index) microfiche. The baptisms and marriages for a county were arranged in name order.

I remember sitting in Bromley Library, in the early 1990s, tracing my direct Barlow line back through Berkshire and Oxfordshire.

I wanted to show a newly-discovered cousin what the fiche looked like, but I can't find an image on the internety thingy.

Can someone come to the rescue and share a link for me?

Title: Re: Looking for an image of an old IGI microfiche page (not specific, any will do)
Post by: mckha489 on Saturday 09 December 23 16:49 GMT (UK)

http://www.ancestryinsider.org/2011/01/when-was-igi.html

Title: Re: Looking for an image of an old IGI microfiche page (not specific, any will do)
Post by: stevemiller on Saturday 09 December 23 17:10 GMT (UK)

Thank you mckha489.

Happy memories!

I would like to find a clearer image if it is out there to be found.

Title: Re: Looking for an image of an old IGI microfiche page (not specific, any will do)
Post by: Rena on Saturday 09 December 23 17:26 GMT (UK)

I used to use the old Hugh Wallis Site - it still works

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/genealogy/index.htm

Title: Re: Looking for an image of an old IGI microfiche page (not specific, any will do)
Post by: familydar on Saturday 09 December 23 19:27 GMT (UK)

I'm pretty sure I have some pages that I printed out at the library all those years ago, will have a rummage around and pm a scan to you tomorrow if that's OK


probably no need now since BushInn1746 has now posted an image which is much clearer than I remember my photocopies.  I'd forgotten the microfiches were by county!

Jane :-)

Title: Re: Looking for an image of an old IGI microfiche page (not specific, any will do)
Post by: BushInn1746 on Saturday 09 December 23 20:56 GMT (UK)

Only an image of a thumbnail from the IGI microfiche page.
Bainbridge Anne to Betty (part), Mar 1992, LDS IGI

Title: Re: Looking for an image of an old IGI microfiche page (not specific, any will do)
Post by: bearkat on Sunday 10 December 23 09:58 GMT (UK)

This bought back many memories - trawling through record offices for any scrap of information about our ancestors.  So much is at our fingertips nowadays and we quickly take it for granted.

Title: Re: Looking for an image of an old IGI microfiche page (not specific, any will do)
Post by: stevemiller on Tuesday 12 December 23 09:21 GMT (UK)

Many thanks to everyone, especially BushInn1746 for the very clear copy.

It's interesting that evidence of this vital resource of the 1980s and 1990s has all but disappeared.

I well remember the 1881 census indexes first appeared in this format.

Title: Re: Looking for an image of an old IGI microfiche page (not specific, any will do)
Post by: MollyC on Tuesday 12 December 23 09:36 GMT (UK)

I remember our library having the 1881 fiche for Yorkshire, then later buying 3 surrounding counties.  I looked up my great grandfather living in Derbyshire, discovered he had been born in Westmorland, his wife in Birmingham, and that opened up whole new chapters.  Reward for contributing a little to the transcription!

Title: Re: Looking for an image of an old IGI microfiche page (not specific, any will do)
Post by: a-l on Saturday 16 December 23 19:17 GMT (UK)

I still have a lot of those from my pre internet days. I actually preferred them.