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Hunt4Roots
Hunt4Roots ✭
November 8, 2022 edited July 10, 2024 in FamilySearch Center

My question is not about my online account but 'film rental history'. I rented a microfilm from the FHL many years ago, must have been 2014. But since then I have moved and during my move, I lost a Lot of research. Is there a way to find out what film number it was that I rented? I know the topic (Jackson County Georgia [land or deed] records). Methinks you don't really need to look at my account. If 'FHL rental info' is not available, then it just isn't. I can accept that. I just want the film number.

If I have left this message on the wrong forum, please redirect me. TIA

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 9, 2022 Answer ✓

    Unfortunately, when the film rental program ended, the information about what films we had rented was wiped from the website.

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  • Hunt4Roots
    Hunt4Roots ✭
    November 9, 2022 Answer ✓

    Thank You.

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  • DavidBeck1
    DavidBeck1 mod
    November 12, 2022 edited November 13, 2022

    @Hunt4Roots

    If you have a good memory of those names you were searching for in the past, the film you used in the past will most likely be available online as a collection of images and would now be simply found by running an online search.

    I recommend you to Explore Historical Images and add any search parameters, which may help, bearing in mind you are searching primarily for a "Place" not a name, and see what turns up.

    I recommend this searching method because you can easily find what is available to view. Whereas when searching in the Catalogue, what is not available to view is often listed and this gets a bit confusing.

    Cheerio for now!

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 12, 2022

    The Jackson County Deed records are unrestricted and available to browse. Not indexed to be searchable by name: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/228627

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  • Chris Schmink
    Chris Schmink ✭✭✭
    November 23, 2022

    @Hunt4Roots There is one more thing you could try. It's a long shot, but a few Family History Centers still have many of the films that were rented "way back when." (Film rentals ended in 2017.) You might take a chance that the Center still has records of who ordered which films. I am very fortunate - one member of our staff that served for years under multiple FHC directors kept a wonderful log of all the film orders, and we chose not to throw that notebook out because it was not taking up any significant space. I'd try contacting that FHC and try to speak with the current leader to see if they kept the records of what films were ordered and by whom. If it was our center, we could actually tell you - hopefully your old one can as well.

    --Chris

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 23, 2022

    By 2014, we were on the automated online ordering system, not the paper slip ordering system, with records held on paper.

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  • Chris Schmink
    Chris Schmink ✭✭✭
    November 24, 2022

    But a forward thinking staff member in our Center still kept a notebook record right through the end of film ordering. So I made that statement that perhaps @Hunt4Roots just might happen to get lucky and find that their old FHC also kept some paper records in the Center like ours did. It's a long shot, but still worth the question to the current FHC/FSC leader - just in case.

    --Chris

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  • Paul W
    Paul W ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 24, 2022

    @Hunt4Roots

    As suggested by @Áine Ní Donnghaile , look at the Catalog page (for which she provides a link) and I believe you will find you can now view digital versions of these records from home. The periods covered are shown for each film, so (in theory!) you should have no trouble in finding the material you previously viewed on microfilm.

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