If there is no image on an indexed record, can I still see the image somewhere?

Paul_Guerra

So I am looking for an ancestor in France, and I have found multiple potential match individuals. Usually, I can find other details than those indexed by seeing the actual image of the document. But for the French records I'm reviewing have no image with them. If the information was indexed though, there surely must be an image somewhere. Does anybody know how I could access that image? Is it on a microfilm somewhere that I could order or request it?

LegacyUser

One the records with which I am familiar, which have been indexed by FamilySearch the indexed record usually has details about the source of the record, click Document Information, and how they are viewable

Example

Eliza Flatman

India Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947 

 

Name: Eliza Flatman Event Type: Christening Event Date: 4 Apr 1828 Event Place: Bengal, India Event Place (Original): Barrackpore, Bengal, India Sex: Female Birth Date: 15 Jan 1820 Father's Name: Aandrew Flatman

Mother's Name: Margaret

Images Available 

To view these images do one of the following: 

• Access the site at a family history center
• Access the site at a FamilySearch affiliate library

Record Collection:

India Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947

Document Information:

GS Film Number 498958 Digital Folder Number 005136992 Indexing Project (Batch) Number C75002-9System Origin ODM Citing this Record"India Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947", database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FG6M-YBL : 5 February 2020), Eliza Flatman, 1828.

 

This record is from microfilm number 498958, Digital Folder Number 005136992 

• accessible at a family history center and also
• Accessible at a FamilySearch affiliate library

 

Do your records of interest include similar information, or not?

DeborahCarl

Most indexed sources have a blue box on the right hand side. The one I'm looking at now has "This record came from this set of images. You will need to look through several images to find this record. Browse the film." And I can click on Browse The Film and it takes me to images of the original record. Then I jump around the records looking for the right year, right month, right day since there are usually hundreds or thousand of images.

ME Doran

The two previous responses are correct for many situations. However, the owners/custodians of some records have allowed them to be indexed but have specified that the images not be made available. In that situation it would be necessary to directly contact the organization that is listed as the owner of the record.