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The ordinances Baptism, Endowment and Sealing are carried out (in proxy for deceased persons) in the various LDS Temples.
The IGI microfiche used to show these in the columns B.E.F. but the IGI online has these columns suppressed and may only be viewed at a FHC.

The IGI is made up from a number of sources the main being controlled extractions.
Controlled extractions come from a number of sources such as parish registers, bishop's transcripts (where permission to film parish registers was denied), private collections of pr transcripts such as Gibsons Oxford Marriage Index and many other sources.
It is also made up of patron submissions, i.e. submissions by members of the church and members of the general public.

Note as the IGI records Temple Ordinances it is correct if the particulars given at that ordinance are recorded correctly.
This means if a record was submitted as John Smith baptised Wakefield 31 February 1755 the IGI is correct in recording it as that even if the parish register gives the same baptism as John Smith baptised Wakefield 21 February 1755.

The IGI only records the details given at the ordinance nothing else, many family historians find this hard to understand.


For some years now controlled extractions have not been submitted for Temple Ordinances and therefore do not become part of the IGI such controlled extractions are now added to the Vital Records Index.
Cheers
Guy