Cannot Search using FHL film number or Location

Wendell R Olsen

For years I have used the Search - Catalog - entering a location or entering the FHL film number to get the images from the film needed for my research. Today I could not get to my most used film either way. What has happened? All of a sudden Nordheim, Brackenheim, Wuerttemberg, Germany is no longer a place in the Family History Library. I am crushed! Much of my documentation uses the FHL film number. Now I will not be able to access my sources nor will anyone else be able to follow my research.

genthusiast

It looks like the place names the Catalog Search now accepts have been inverted - or I can't recall? You should now find Church Records for Germany, Württemberg, Nordheim

Are these the ones you are looking for?

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/304338?availability=Family%20History%20Library

Here are the Catalog results for Germany, Württemberg

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=56392&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Germany%2C%20W%C3%BCrttemberg%22

If you still retain or know the film numbers you can access those through Search> Records:

If the films above aren't the films you need - I expect the ones you do need will be available as FamilySearch finishes the Catalog changes? Hopefully soon. It does look like the Catalog is changing! Exciting times! Here is the Places Search help page:

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/FamilySearch_Catalog_Places_Search

Re Searching

Ah HA ! J'accuse mon petite fromage !

- So things can be changed in the "New Search"

Before:

After:

This now begs the question: Why not change the other things that have been requested ?

Julia Szent-Györgyi

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bfilm_number%3A1184757

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=57606&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Germany%2C%20W%C3%BCrttemberg%2C%20Nordheim%22

They've slightly relabeled the number field, but nothing else has changed, as far as I can tell.

Re Searching

@Julia Szent-Györgyi Yes, but it shows potential !. Perhaps it was just a very simple experiment to see if they could actually change something basic without breaking it. Now that it is shown to be possible, - The way is clear, Onward and Upward ! To the Stars ! ( exit stage left ranting )

AndersonBB

https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/106553/cannot-search-using-fhl-film-number-or-location

I too want to look at a particular film number's images, and I cannot find away to enter the film number in a catalog search.

Re Searching

@AndersonBB How about this ?

"https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bfilm_number%3A101817703"

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bfilm_number%3A101817703

Julia Szent-Györgyi

"I cannot find away to enter the film number in a catalog search."

It's labeled "Image Group Number (DGS)/Fiche Number" now, acknowledging that they're no longer on film -- but I think they should've left the word in there, because a lot of people are going to be just as confused as AndersonBB and Wendell.