Will microfilm be available?
Hello, I would like to ask if the online microfilm 1739440 from the Slovakia Church and Synagogue Books collection will be available in the near future. For Slovak legal reasons, it should be okay so that I can expect it in the future. It would help me in my research. Thank you!
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All microfilms have now been digitized; that's not the holdup.
FamilySearch enforces privacy and other restrictions on an all-or-nothing basis: if there's a single image on a film that's restricted, then the entire film is restricted. As Paul said, film 1739440 has multiple parts, and items 1-3 include confirmations up to 1927 from Lechnicz. This is why Landek's registers are also restricted: they only go up to 1896, but they're on the same film as those records from 1927.
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The only apparent problem lies in the part of the film containing contents that date up to 1927. Perhaps there is a "100 years" rule / restriction, which would mean the contents of the whole film being unavailable for publication until 2027. The record custodian would be able to confirm this, but FamilySearch does not reveal such information and/or if or when this film will eventually be available to view.
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Hi, first of all I want to thank @Paul W for his interesting comment. It's interesting and we'll see, maybe, that just isn't this film digitized. It would be great if they added that part of the film that doesn't interfere with this '100 years' law.
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