new url and viewer
we have been creating indexes of url to pint directly to a specific year and type of document
eg
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9PDJ-L5Q?i=269&cc=2138507&cat=96562
now the viewer has changed and the url are different
we can not used our saved url because if we use the link we get a reroute to picture 2
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9PDJ-L5Q?i=1&cc=2138507&cat=96562
is there a possibilty to use the old url or convert to new style and keeping the pointer to same picture
best regards, Guy
Answers
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Your first link works fine for me in both Chrome and Edge except that i=268 gives me page 269 (and so on).
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You only need the part of the URL before the ? symbol.
Your first URL https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9PDJ-L5Q goes to Image 2 of 676, the first record after the Title Board. That format has not changed.
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I think I see what the problem is: the first link isn't supposed to be to image 2. It's supposed to be to image 270, and that's what it says — but not what it resolves to. (Yes, I know it says 269, not 270, but that's because image numbering starts at one while URL numbering starts at zero.)
I navigated to image 270 and copied the URL. The beginning and end look exactly the same as the OP's first link, but the middle part is different:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GPDJ-2F8?i=269&cc=2138507&cat=96562
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9PDJ-L5Q?i=269&cc=2138507&cat=96562I'm not sure how the OP's link was generated, but clearly, it's not working as expected/desired. I don't think there has been any change in this URL scheme, but it's not an area I've explored much (if at all).
My suggestion is to switch to FS's other image-URL scheme, which uses the film number and image number in a fully human-parseable format: https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/004833966?i=269. What's actually in the address bar adds a "cc=NNN" query at the end (https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/004833966?i=269&cc=2138507), but it resolves to a thumbnail view of image 270 either way. (That's the one disadvantage of the scheme: it goes to the thumbnail-views page, with the desired image highlighted.)
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