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How do I access information from the Family History Library? I am interested in Austria, Bukowina, church records for years ranging from 1840-1882. This has been very confusing and frustrating process. I would like to search information from the Catalog section Metrical Books from 1881-1938 as well as volume 1245-9/104 Births 1871-1884. I have saved a catalog print list and can not print off anything. Also I cannot access the Canada, Saskatchewan Provincial Records, 1879-1987. If you know or have any suggestions it would be much appreciated. Thank you kindly, Sharon
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The FamilySearch Catalog contains everything at the Family History Library (FHL). If there's a camera icon beside a record, you can view it online. If there's a camera/key icon, there's restricted online access: most commonly, you will need to be at a Family History Center (FHC) or be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (aka LDS, Mormons) to view the records online. A microfilm symbol indicates the records are not online. There's a seperate "Books" tab under "Search" containing online access to some of the books at the FHL. There's also CDs at the FHL, but I don't think there's any way to view those online yet.
I was able to access the Saskatchewan Collection from home via this link without any difficulty. However sometimes the access restriction rules are different in different countries: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1916143
If you're unable to access the records you want, you can try the FHL Lookup Service (https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/FHL_Lookup_Services) This a free service, and involves volunteers physically located at the FHL looking up records on your behalf and sending you what they find.
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@SharonPetrescu, specifically what town in Bukowina are you looking for? I tried searching the catalog for "1245-9/104" as a keyword, but none of the results had anything to do with Austria. There are over 200 places listed under Bukowina (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=58663&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Austria%2C%20Bukowina%22), so I haven't been able to figure out which metrical books you meant.
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Apologies for late reply. I am showing a few dates for DOB for my great grandparents therefore I am searching between 1847-1854. Zanfira Popescu in Badeuti near Radauti, Bukovina. This may have been part of the Austrian Empire. Teodor (Todar) Petrescue in Radauti and Botosani. Now my grandmother Maria Tatar (maiden name) who has been the most challenging. I have her DOB as 1882 Bukovina (nothing else). I have that Maria married Petru Petrescue in 1900 Suceava, Bucovina.
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What religion?
Film 8018711 has Radautz (now Rădăuţi) Roman Catholic baptisms from 1830 to 1860 in items 1 and 2 (ending on image 180: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSX8-1S6K-J?i=179&cat=372785). Browsing through those will take a bit of work, but it's doable. (I've done far worse.)
FamilySearch also has films of the Lutheran registers from Radautz (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/643769), but unfortunately most of them are not online (likely due to privacy restrictions on other parts of the films they're on). However, they also have some duplicates or extracts from the same Lutheran registers (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/545406), and birth records from 1848 to 1855 are browsable online (item 5 on film 8018671, i.e. images 1260 to 1455). The records have been indexed, but the index-to-image associations are off by one: the index entries are linked to the image previous to the one they actually go with. But in any case, the index does not have anyone named anything like Popescu or Petrescu. (Those are Romanian surnames, and the Lutherans in Radautz were nearly all Germans.)
For Suczawa (Suceava), FS has some RC registers, but only baptisms, and only up to 1866 (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/546200), so likely not useful for your grandmother. They also have some records from an "Armenian Apostolic Church" (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/546200), but I'm not sure the catalog entry for it is entirely correct. (They've definitely gotten the language of the record completely wrong: it says Russian and Polish, but all of the images I looked at were in Latin and German.)
And in all that looking, I still haven't figured out where your reference to "Metrical Books from 1881-1938 as well as volume 1245-9/104 Births 1871-1884" came from.
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