Spain, Consular Records of Emigrants, 1808-1960

klavdjo

Hi, the records for the collection 1928310, entitled "Spain, Consular Records of Emigrants, 1808-1960", specifically the ones under Brasil - Consulado de Rio de Janeiro, have been unavailable for at least one year and I don't even know if they were ever available. Is there any chance they can be made accessible in the near future? Here is the link to the collection:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1928310

Thank you

genthusiast

Disclaimer: Community member (not FamilySearch representative)

I do not know about availability in the future - but I checked under Search> Images. I cannot find specific reference to Emigrants/Consulate but there is Life Event: Migration - which results in 22,473 collection results:

https://www.familysearch.org/records/images/search-results?place=5721&page=2&lifeEvent=127180

Looking in the Catalog https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1949741?availability=Family%20History%20Library

results in these DGS:  5030618, 5057994, 5088463 but did not return results when checking for these Images.

So yes - it appears they are still not available.

klavdjo

Thank you for the insight, however those collections relate to records produced by Brazilian authorities rather than the ones produced by the Spanish Consulate in Rio de Janeiro. I have changed the search parameters but still could not find the records I am looking for

klavdjo

This is the error message I get when trying to access the records on this collection

Julia Szent-Györgyi

The catalog confirms that this is straight-to-digital material, but provides no access information (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1949741). I suspect there may be a privacy restriction, as many of the people in these records may still be living. (The collection's Wiki page mentions a 50-year cutoff, while the newest of these records are 65 years old, so by that rule they should be available, but maybe Brazil's laws also need to be followed?)

I have a theory on why the catalog has nothing in the Format (a.k.a. access/availability) column: they don't have an icon for this situation. In other cases, "not online due to privacy or contractual reasons" is indicated with the microfilm reel, because usually such records are available on film, if you show up in Salt Lake City. But that doesn't apply here, as these records were never filmed, only scanned. Other than the reel, FS's catalog has the camera-with-key icon, but that implies that someone somewhere has the key, i.e. can view these records online -- but that appears not to be the case here. These files seem to have gone straight to a Granite Mountain hard drive, not to any public server.

I don't know why such inaccessible records are even listed in the waypointed collection, or why they've chosen the "at this time" error message for this situation. Perhaps the (theorized) restrictions are set to expire soon enough that this was deemed the most efficient solution?