records in Serbia

LegacyUser

Martin Kadelburger said: Hi

Are You planning to microfilm any records from Serbia?

My ancestors lived in Zrenjanin/Nagybecskerek/Gross Betschkerek and where of Jewish faith, maybe moved there from Budapest region

I have found out that there are Jewish records, probably in the City hall of Zrenjanin but it's difficult to access them.

https://synergia.rs/Banat/Grossbetsch...

https://vojvodina.travel/en/historica...

I hope that You would consider adding these records and other from the region

Kind regards,
Martin Kadelburger
Solna
Sweden

LegacyUser

A van Helsdingen said: FS needs permission from the record owners to microfilm records, and must have the money and volunteers to do the digitizing. The ongoing pandemic has obviously made travel to archives to digitize impossible.

Record owners often object to FS digitizing their records. Usually this is because they charge for access, and putting the records on FS would lose them this revenue. They may have signed a contract with another website giving them exclusive rights to publish the records, or there may be a legal reason why they cannot let a 3rd party like FS digitize the records.

Also note that Catholic policy (though rarely enforced), is that their records must not be microfilmed or digitised by FS, nor can individual Latter Day Saints have access to the records. If the Catholic records are owned by the State Archives this is irrelevant, but if not, this can be another factor making it difficult for FS to digitize records.

FS Staff do read this forum, so hopefully after reading this they will give more priority to the records you have mentioned.

Apart from rare occasions when either FS or the archive announces the signing of a contract giving FS the right to digitize records, FS won't reveal what the schedule of records to be digitized next is, or any matter relating to contracts.

LegacyUser

Cherie Gardner Rawlings said: The Serbian archives holds the census records (except for large cities) for Slovenia. Another reason to see if Serbia will allow FamilySearch to film their records. By the by, Serbia is not and has not historically ever been Catholic.

LegacyUser

Cherie Gardner Rawlings said: My understanding was that not that long ago there was one camera working in the Serbian archives, but only used by the Serbian archivist when he had time. The hold up on Serbian records could simply be the lack of volunteers to do the filming. Martin, you might consider volunteering.

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A van Helsdingen said: Only Latter Day Saints are permitted by FS to do volunteer roles digitizing records.