Why Slovakia, Šaľa, Šaľa - Church records - 1693-1765 are not available?
Dear Familysearch Community,
The following church records are not available unfortunately: (Film: 2388441 Item 7, Item 8, DGS: 5225505).
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1367930?availability=Family%20History%20Library
I think these records/images are not in the protected time area, could you please make them available to the public?
I would like to research in Vágsellye / Šaľa in this early period, but now I'm hitting walls.
Please help! Thank you in advance!
Kind regards,
Richard Kedves
Answers
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Hello @kedvesr89,
We have moved your question from FamilySearch Community to Search where you may get answers from knowledgeable people.
Best Wishes!
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The problem is that FamilySearch enforces privacy laws at the "whole film" level: if, out of the hundreds or thousands of images on a film, there's a single restricted one, then the entire film is restricted.
DGS 5225505, in addition to the two items from Sala, also contains images from the Jewish register from Šahy, Slovakia (formerly Ipolyság, Hont, Hungary): items 1-3 with marriages up to 1947, and items 4-6 with deaths up to 1938. Slovakia's privacy law is a uniform 100 years, so unless/until FamilySearch comes up with a different methodology, these images will not be available online for another 26 years.
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Thank you Julia, however unfortunately I will not be ahead anyway.
Poetic question: Why is Šahy (Ipolyság) Jewish register connected to Šaľa (Vágsellye) roman catholic church records? Nothing, even several centuries of difference...
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I think they're on the same film because they're alphabetically adjacent. Camera operators tried to fill up microfilm reels; if one place's registers ran out before the film did, they'd grab the next place from the pile or shelf, and it appears that the material was organized alphabetically by Slovak placename.
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