Could FamilySearch please index this huge trove of Serbian genealogical records?
I stumbled upon this massive package of Serbian records on a Reddit post. It contains all the handwritten birth, christening, marriage and death records written by churches within northern Serbia ('Vojvodina') between the years of 1735-1896.
Could someone please add all these to FamilySearch's resource pages, properly index them, and make them available for transcription volunteers?
The books for each individual district can be downloaded here:
The entire collection can be downloaded as a ZIP file directly from archive.org servers here (but it may be slow):
Alternatively, the entire collection can be downloaded as a 'torrent' file from here:
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I am not connected with FamilySearch
There is another Internet Archive page which indicates that the records originate from the Archives of Vojvodina
This link is https:// maticneknjige.org.rs with no spaces (I don't know how to get this to appear as a URL in the usual form)
You could perhaps write to the FamilySearch Library suggesting they try to make an arrangement with this Archive, using one of the emails in this link
I doubt FamilySearch would do anything based on the Internet Archive links
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FamilySearch must have a contract with the record holder to index record collections.
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Based on postings on WikiTree's forum, I believe the torrent copy was scraped without permission from the Vojvodina Archive's (free) site. I Am Not A Lawyer, so I do not know whether the Internet Archive is acting within the law or not on this.
(Yes, the documents are public domain. The photographs or scans of them, and the infrastructure for storing those images and making them available, are very much not.)
The description of the material is extremely overstated: the collection contains what was in the archive's possession, which is mostly the bishop's copies (mandated from the mid-1820s), and there are many, many, many gaps.
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