Why all data related to BIH (Serbian Orthodox Church Books) can no longer be accessed?
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@sarajevo98 I can understand how disappointing it is when access changes or disappears.
FamilySearch has to follow legal and contractual rules when it comes to record access, and sometimes that means certain collections become restricted. It’s frustrating—we’ve all felt that—but the careful approach helps maintain good relationships with archives and often leads to more access in the long run. FamilySearch's goal is always to make as many records as possible freely available.
Access to these records may return, so it’s worth checking back from time to time. In the meantime, you might try WorldCat to see if a library or other archive holds the same materials, or check other research sites like Ancestry or FindMyPast, which sometimes have different agreements.
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Records of Births and Marriages under 100 years old are now restricted; older records remain accessible.
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Is there a possibility to split files containing decades of data into the one that is accessible (older records) and the other one that is not accessible (newer records)? As it is now, we can't even see the index of births that started in 19th century because the same file contains newer data as well. Blocking it all, as is the case now, sounds to be a reactive move without much planning.
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@KatarinaKeanie
That is an ongoing project. It will take some time to split those apart digitally.In the early microfilm days, the camera operator would be careful to use every frame on the precious - expensive - microfilm, even if that meant records from several parishes or towns were all on the same roll of film.
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@KatarinaKeanie - not trying to steal anyone's thunder but the problem of a "film" (or whatever) spanning a year cut-off and therefore condemning the whole "film" to invisibility, instead of just the bit after the cut-off, has long been recognised but appears to require a lot of work to solve. Please note that I agree that a lot of work will be required, since things will (probably) need reindexing. There's an awful lot of sets of data in this situation and of course if the cut-off is fixed at X years ago, then stuff continually moves between invisible and visible. Sigh…
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@KatarinaKeanie I understand it can be frustrating when records that should be accessible are not. We’ve split many films to make access easier, but processing our large collections takes time. For films that haven’t been divided yet, we must restrict access to the entire film to meet legal requirements.
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