Can someone fix the links for Cumberland Maine? They point to either Providence RI or Berkshire MA
On this page, https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Maine,Church_Records-_FamilySearch_Historical_Records
in the inventory grid, when I click on the links for Cumberland Co ME and use the camera icon to open the images, all the documents in the 4 datasets I accessed today are for locations that ARE NOT EVEN IN MAINE.
Could someone fix this please?
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The URL you posted goes to a blank page.
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Maine,Church_Records-_FamilySearch_Historical_Records
From this URL https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Maine_Church_Records
The links I tested go to Maine records.
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@Pamela Heald It is a bit tricky to understand what is going on. You need to read the header and still understand what happens with microfilms to really get to the information that you want.
So first the header:
DGS column = the starting image of the whole film
Title column = the information about that film in the Catalog
Images column = the first image of that particular section of the film
So, to understand this, you need to know that when records were microfilmed, they wanted to use up the whole film, so for shorter documents or books, there will likely be more than one ITEM on the film. They all have the same film number but you will also see that each book or record also has an Item number. In this case, if I click the Cape Elizabeth Township link in the Title column it takes me to the catalog entry:
Here you can see in the Film column that it gives the film number AND the Item number. So you would need to scroll through images to find Item #5. if you use the link in the DGS column or the Camera link in the Catalog entry (that you get to by using the link in the Title column).
So, simplest way to find what you are after is to use the link in the Images column, which takes you directly to the few images out of the whole microfilm, which are dedicated to the information that you are seeking.
As for the link…somehow your link lost an underscore. Yours looked like this:
The correct link looks like this:
And the actual link is: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Maine,Church_Records-_FamilySearch_Historical_Records
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