Can we suggest some films done out of order where we have requests? Thank you.

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Susan Ruth Morrison said: Hello, we do get people in the FHC who have ancestors who spoke a different language One such is a family who have found relatives- Amelia and Isabella Baum 1850and 1852- born in Wislica Poland. Film 7951904. In the centre we would love it if we could suggest projects .....but maybe you do it in order PLUS you do fabulous work so thank you.

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Tom Huber said: The cost of obtaining microfilm film stock, which is generally no longer available, has caused FamilySearch to make the decision to no longer ship copies to its facilities. This ended over a year ago.

At the present time, there is an ongoing project of digitizing all of the films in the FamilySearch collection. There are some issues in making those digitized image available:

1) Contractual agreements for access to the digital images -- The owner of the original filmed records has to have the original contractual agreements updated, which can take time. In some instances, an agreement was not updated and/or certain limitations were overlooked. Checking with the owners of the original records can sometimes get some action going with regard to getting the access properly set up. The agreements are subject to change, especially where a change of administration and/or jurisdictional laws are involved.

2) Limited Resources when it comes to the agreements and getting them renewed/updated.

3) Indexing the film: The quality of the digitized images, and setting up the indexing project can impact the availability.s

In some instances, FamilySearch has entered into agreements with partner organizations to index a given set of records and the agreement limits access through FamilySearch for a period of time.

Family History Centers are branches of the Family History Library, but are staffed by local volunteers. Those volunteers range in experience and may include staff who are just learning how to use FamilySearch, themselves. Finding people who are adept at working with records in languages other than the native language for the center can be a task. Often, it helps if a local genealogical or historical society helps support the local center. They may know of people who can help in translating copies of the original images.

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Tom Huber said: The targeted completion is 2020 and as of now, so we are told, the films that were circulated have all been filmed. I don't know the status of films that had no circulation (never requested) and the microfiche were slated to be digitized after the films were all digitized.

Indexing typically can take a long time to get the currently digitized films set up, indexed, and readied for publication.

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Paul said: The film in question is only available to view at a Family History Center. I'm not sure (by the wording of your request) whether you already realise this. If so, you will need to advise (this family) of the position concerning microfilms no longer being available, as explained (above) by Tom.

The situation is no better or worse than it was in the past, in that viewing the (digitised) material still requires a visit to a FHC - just as it did when it was only available on microfilm.

In case I am misunderstanding your request - and the people concerned have not yet checked the film content - the link to the 3 films in this series is:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/c...

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Juli said: Just to make it explicit: the films for Wislica have already been digitized; there's nothing else to be "done", "out of order" or otherwise.

If there's a number in the DGS column in the catalog, the microfilm has been digitized. This is basically completely independent of the access methods indicated in the next column.