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What all does a Family Search Affiliate Library offer?

RBREITENWISCHER
RBREITENWISCHER ✭
December 2, 2021 edited December 5, 2021 in FamilySearch Center

I live in a community whose local library is designated as a Family Search Affiliate Library. What service does that encompass? The staff do not know the answer to my question.

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 2, 2021 edited December 2, 2021

    @RBREITENWISCHER

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

    An affiliate library has access to certain restricted records which may be useful in your research. As an example, my local library is an affiliate and I stopped in there this afternoon. I came away with several Cook County, Illinois marriage records, some New Jersey RC baptismal, marriage, and burial records, 2 Alabama marriages, and a few other things.

    If I had tried to access any of those records from home, I would have seen a blank page with this notice:

    image.png

    Hope this helps.

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 2, 2021 edited December 2, 2021

    @RBREITENWISCHER

    An affiliate library allows access to some restricted records that may help you in your research. https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/FamilySearch_Affiliate_Libraries

    As an example, I stopped in my local affiliate this afternoon. I came away with several New Jersey RC baptismal, marriage, and burial records, 2 Alabama marriage records, some Cook County, Illinois, marriage records, and a few other things. If I had tried to access any of those from home, I would have seen a blank page with this message:

    image.png

    Hope this helps.

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 2, 2021

    I have answered this twice, and twice my answer has disappeared. Not sure what is going on, but I have better things to do than repeat myself.

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  • MaureenE123
    MaureenE123 ✭✭✭✭
    December 3, 2021

    A FamilySearch Affiliate Library offers access to some records which are not available on home computers. The big proviso is that the Library must have some of its computers properly set up for Access to these restricted records.

    There is some information available on the FIBIS Fibiwiki page FamilySearch Centres https://wiki.fibis.org/w/FamilySearch_Centres which includes the following links

    • How to Become a FamilySearch Affiliate Library June 6, 2019. FamilySearch Blog. The contact email address is now [email protected] (changed 26 June 2021).
    • Frequently Asked Questions: FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries June 6, 2019 FamilySearch Blog.
    • How do we become an affiliate library? FamilySearch.
    • Our affiliate library needs access to restricted images FamilySearch Helpcenter article.
    • FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries FamilySearch Wiki. Includes a List of Affiliate Libraries, which may not be complete.


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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 3, 2021

    Yes - what I had said over an hour ago - but I guess I'm not permitted.

    And, yes, I'm sure it posted because I saved copies.

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  • MaureenE123
    MaureenE123 ✭✭✭✭
    December 3, 2021

    @Áine Ni Donnghaile Your posts have now appeared. They certainly wen't there when I posted my response above.

    @Mark McLemore Hopefully you can fix this problem.

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  • Brett .
    Brett . ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 3, 2021

    @MaureenE123

    Maureen

    FYI

    Already reported.

    INITIALLY ...

    Date: 29 November 2021

    FamilySearch Help

    'Category' = Suggest An Idea

    "Community.FamilySearch" Forum. FAULT / FLAW. "Comments" DISAPPEARING, once AGAIN ...

    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/110354/community-familysearch-forum-fault-flaw-comments-disappearing-once-again

    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/110354/community-familysearch-forum-fault-flaw-comments-disappearing-once-again

    SUBSEQUENTLY ...

    The REAPPEARANCE of the DISAPPEARING 'Comments' ...

    A later 'Comment' ...

    Date: 2 December 2021

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    Administration

    "Community.FamilySearch" Forum

    Attention: @Mark McLemore

    FYI

    I just took a 'look' at some of the above post ...

    And, it 'looks' like my 'Comments', that had DISAPPEARED, are NOW coming BACK (ie. appearing) with a "Vengeance" ...

    This is going to be a TOTAL 'Nightmare' (and, especially, for one particular post ...)

    Brett

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    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/410570/#Comment_410570

    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/410570#Comment_410570

    Brett

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  • Paul W
    Paul W ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 3, 2021

    @RBREITENWISCHER

    Please be aware that you will not be able to view "restricted"records, added as a source whilst at an Affiliate library, when you get home. You will receive the same message as illustrated above by Aine.

    If you want access to the image(s) again, you need to take along a memory stick (to download) or print out a hard copy, so you can see these records from home.

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