Regarding some Microfilms only available at the Utah Library (edited to General questions)
First of all, thank you for this amazing and blessed work you do sharing our families' historical records！
I visited Family History Centers in South Korea, Japan and Brazil but no one could help me to open the following
indexes. They were scanned and preserved into microfilms, and I heard many years ago in south america they had the machines to roll those films and read the indexes(which had to be shipped from the States overseas). i don't believe the reason we can't see is due to a contract issue,instead a technicality. Only by reading these alphabetical indexes of births,marriages and deaths I would be able to progress SO MUCH with my own family research, since my ancestors who had the MEGGIATO surname basically all lived in this area since the 15th century. Please,can you help me figure a way to request this information? At the moment, I can't personally visit Utah,but I would gladly support all the expenses of some nice soul near the area. Thank you all
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1025341?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Answers
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The film you have highlighted in green holds records through 1931, making them too recent to be available, based on privacy regulations.
Also - the program to distribute the actual films ended in 2017. All films have been digitized, but that does not mean they can be available to view online.
If you are interested in earlier records - not in that 1922-1931 group - there is a coming change that may make those available. See AnneLoForteWillson's comment in this thread - https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/138434/film-access-still-restricted-at-family-history-center#latest
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Dear Áine Ní Donnghaile
Thank you very much for sharing the link with me!
I will try to select only the + than 100 year specific films and see if they are available at the image section or if the volunteers/ people working at the library can help me.
Have a nice day!
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Posting a hopeful UPDATE!
FamilySearch Support (FamilySearch)
Mar 8, 2023, 08:29 MST
Dear Rafael,
Thank you for including a screen shot from the catalog with your message. That helped us find what you are looking at. There can be several reasons that a few of the films on a catalog page do not allow online viewing, even though others on that same page are available.
Most of the ones that show only a film reel icon on this page show "Items 8-9" (or other Item numbers) in the Film column. That tells us that multiple kinds of records were included in the original filming. Microfilm was expensive, so the camera crews filled a film reel up with more than one kind of record and often with records from more than one place. So, if any of the "items" on a film reel are restricted, all the items on the reel are restricted.
We see one exception to that rule on this page: film 2252114. We see that it contains births as recent as 1929, so this one is probably restricted because of privacy laws.
We understand how frustrating it is to not be able to look at records that could be useful in your family history research. Our engineers are looking at ways to break up the multi-item films so that we can release portions of them that do not fall under contract restrictions. We do not know how quickly that might happen, but you might want to check back periodically to see if formerly restricted records have become available.
Thank you for using FamilySearch as you seek to document your family. We hope that records you need will become available in the near future.
Sincerely,
FamilySearch Support
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