Help with LDS

tishgibbons · Post by **tishgibbons** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:06 pm

Hi Folks,

I need someone to explain (slowly, in words of one syllable) how to find my way around the LDS site. I've been told several times that someone has entered information on the Mitchells from Crathie on the site. I've been told how to find out who it is and I'm embarassed to go back and say I don't understand! I did find one person who had Forbes connections one of whom married one of the family but it's not him. There's no LDS near me so I can't go and view whatever films or whatever it is I'm supposed to view.

Tish ( unashamedly displaying ignorance, again!)

CatrionaL · Post by **CatrionaL** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:42 pm

Hi Tish

Have sent you a pm.

Catriona

Post by **marilyn morning** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:55 pm

Tish

Someone once told me the only silly question is the one you don't ask or something along those lines.

TalkingScot is willing to help all its members with any questions they may have. If anyone has a question ask away, that's why we are here.

Regards
Marilyn

pinkshoes · Post by **pinkshoes** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:38 am

Tish - you can be sure whatever the question, other people will be asking it as well. Through questions and answers being posted we all learn from each other. (Or in my case I learn from everyone else)

I'd be interested in the answer to this one too as it happens.

Best wishes
Pinkshoes

CatrionaL · Post by **CatrionaL** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:44 am

Pinkshoes

We've got half the answer, looking into the rest .

Will keep you informed.

Best wishes

Catriona

pinkshoes · Post by **pinkshoes** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:45 am

Thanks Catriona - I'll look out for it

Pinkshoes

Post by **AndrewP** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:01 am

The ones where you can find the LDS submitter's details online are in the "Ancestral File". On the IGI search form, go to the left margin - "Ancestral File" is near the top of that list. On an Ancestral File results page click on "details" in the submitter section for name and address details.

Of the various submitted entries for my family, I am yet to find one listed in the Ancestral Files. I do not know the connection between LDS submissions and entries in the Ancestral Files. So from my experience, I would say you are in the lucky minority if you can find one of your people with Ancestral File submitter details. On finding the submitter, there are no guarantees that the person is still at that address (or still alive).

All the best,

Andrew Paterson

CatrionaL · Post by **CatrionaL** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:51 am

Andrew,
Thanks. So it wasn't just my lack of know how!

Pinkshoes,
That was the "half of the information" that I mentionned. Had great hopes that Andrew might come up with the other half "Submitters on the IGI".

Best wishes

Catriona

pinkshoes · Post by **pinkshoes** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:49 pm

Thanks guys - that was what I thought, but hoped there might be another road in!

I did find someone who'd submitted tons of stuff of interest to me (most of it I knew already) but the submitter was clearly some kind of cousin in the States hitherto unknown. I emailed the address shown, but unfortunately came back undelivered. However, I'm like a dog at a bone, and intend to write to the actual address in case she's still there.

Pinkshoes.

CatrionaL · Post by **CatrionaL** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:55 pm

pinkshoes
The impression I got from reading the info on the family research site is that the details about "submitters" can be got from an LDS Centre if you have the Batch No.

I have contacted "submitters" from the Ancestry File on two or three occasions. With perhaps one exception, I've had replies from several people who turned out to be long distant cousins with their roots in the Fordel, Fife mines. One "submitter" had died, but his widow replied and we have kept up an interesting and helpful correspondance since.

Catriona