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FAQs about the I.G.I. - The Answers
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I take it that, when you double-clicked the film number on the full entry it took you to the screen that says what type of film it was. If that is the case, then a lot depends on what year the endowments were done.
If the endowments were performed during the period 1920 through 1960 there just may be the name of the proxy and heir included with the endowment entry. But, you have to be careful as there may only be the name of one proxy at the top of a list of endowments of people that have no relationship to the family. This resulted when a church member did not, or could not, attend the temple to perform the ordinances personally. A proxy was appointed in their place. Also, from the films of ordinances that I have examined, it seems that Salt Lake did not have one specific form for recording the endowments once they were done - it varied every few years. Also, every temple seems to have sent the information to Salt Lake compiled in a slightly different manner.
As you get into the ordinances that were performed prior to the 1920s as well as after the 1960s there is less and less information that can be tied to an heir - a member of the family.
Lastly, and sometimes the most disappointing of all is the fact that a member of the church was able to have ordinances performed for, shall we say, close family friends who were not members of the church. I am not sure how they swung this, but I have ordinances performed by a Phyllis Gransden for my Duncan family of Faversham, Kent. Phyllis had the ordinances performed at Salt Lake City temple a few years after Lizzie Duncan died at Faversham, Kent in 1924. I do know that the Duncans were members of the LDS church back in the 1840s - were disavowed, then reinstated some 20 years later - then disavowed again and that some of Lizzie's children emigrated to "America". But, not one of them would have been Phyllis Gransden so where she fits in is anybody's guess, other than to say that she must have been a friend of Lizzie's.
If you are looking at the source for an entry and that source includes a batch number, you will have to check the Batch Number Table that I have posted on this website. As you will see from the table, every batch number indicates a certain type of composition for the entry to which it is tied. Consequently, the degree of information that is available concerning the submitter will vary from resource to resource. The best hope of obtaining a name and address of a submitter is for information that was submitted on "Individual Entry Forms" and "Marriage Entry Forms", mostly found in batch numbers starting with 72---- or in information that was submitted as a PAF file. Just be aware that the address of a submitter may be far-outdated by the time you actually view the original record that he or she submitted.
When all is said, though, the only way to find out just how much information you will get, is to order the film.
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