The Ordinance Index,
Social Security Death Index, Scottish Church Records, and Military Index
(Last updated 01 March 2003)
Ordinance Index (OI)
This file contains the names of 200 million deceased people who have had
their temple ordinance work done. Submissions come from vital records extraction or family
file submissions to the temple. The IGI also includes an addendum which contains an
additional 40 million names. Pedigree linkage does not exist in the IGI as it does in
Ancestral File. The IGI serves as the Church's official record of Temple Work, but it is
not complete. It excludes some information still found on the Temple Records Index
Bureau films (see the LDS Research Outline), as well as any ordinance work
completed since the last version of the OI was produced.
At the Family Search opening screen, press Enter.
Use the arrow keys to highlight LDS Options, then press Enter.
Highlight Ordinance Index, and press Enter.
Press F4 to begin to search.
The IGI is organized by country. Some countries fall into a larger
regional heading. To find out which heading a country is under press F11 or U. If your
ancestor is in the IGI, he will be listed in the country where he was born.
Individual Search
Choose Individual Search.
Type in the name of the person you are searching for and at least
estimate the date of birth.
At the Index screen, press Enter for more information on the individual
highlighted. This will give you the date of baptism, endowment, and sealing to parents, as
well as the temple the ordinance was performed in.
If you want the batch numbers or FHL film numbers, press enter again. It
will not tell you who submitted to the IGI, but from the numbers you can tell the type of
submission (i.e. family file or extraction). A key on this screen also indicates if
the original film has any further information, like other family members or names of
submitters.
Marriage Search
Press F7 for Marriage Search.
Type in the name of one of the spouses and estimate the year of
marriage.
At the Index screen, highlight the couple of interest and press Enter to
see the marriage information. This will give you the date of sealing to spouse and the
temple it was performed in.
Parent Search
Press F8 for Parent Search.
Type in the names of the parents.
At the Index screen, look for all the children listed under the parents
you are searching for. This will give you the dates of baptism, endowment, and sealing of
the child to his or her parents.
Printing
Press F2. Option A prints one individual at a time; a waste of
paper. Option E creates or adds entries to a Holding File. Printing a Holding File
allows all the information on several people to be printed on each page. To create a
Holding File:
From the Index screen, highlight the individuals you want to put into
the Holding File, and press Enter. A small arrow will appear by each selected name.
Press F12 to Save. The arrows by each Index entry will
disappear, but the entries will be saved to the holding file.
Searching the Addendum
Press F9 for the Addendum, which contains 84 million names. Addendum
search instructions are identical to those of the OI Main file.
These three valuable FamilySearch databases have one very important thing
in common: Their search interfaces are identical to that of the IGI and Ordinance Index.
To learn how to search these databases, learn how to search the OI. While
redundant search instructions for these databases do not appear here, their relative time
spans and contents bear introduction.
Social Security Death Index
(SSDI)
Social Security was started in 1937 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. At first it
excluded many people -- farmers, housekeepers, self-employed people, etc. It wasn't until
the 1960's that it became more widespread. And it wasn't until just recently that Social
Security numbers were given to children at birth. Because of these factors, most of the
entries in the SSDI are dated after about 1962. This is a file of people who have died and
whose deaths have been registered with the Social Security Department. If they never
worked, then they never had Social Security taken out of their check and their family
wouldn't be able to collect the money. In that case, the death was probably not
registered. This database lists and individual's birth date, death date, and place
of issuance of the social security number, which, parenthetically, is not necessarily
where the individual was born. Some entries also list the Death Residence's location, and
where the death benefits were sent to.
Military Index
This database lists names of U.S. servicemen and women who died in the
Vietnam or Korean Wars. The Korean War file is limited to those who died on Korean soil,
whereas the Vietnam index lists those who died inside or outside of Vietnam.
Scottish Church Records
This index contains records extracted from Scottish Church Records. Most
are from the Old Parochial Registers of Scotland and from other records of the Church of
Scotland (Presbyterian.) When available, there have been other records included from other
churches. Mostly the records are from the late 1500's to 1854, however, some of the
records are from as late as 1900. To see whether temple work was done on the
individuals listed here, see the Ordinance Index.
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