Looking for an image of an old IGI microfiche page (not specific, any will do)

[stevemiller]

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?

[mckha489]

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

[stevemiller]

Thank you mckha489.

Happy memories!

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

[Rena]

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

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

[familydar]

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 :-)

[BushInn1746]

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

[bearkat]

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.

[stevemiller]

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.

[MollyC]

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!