Access to film of birth/baptism records from West Prussia
How might I be able to access records of births from Gorzno, West Prussia, Film No. 850293 Item 3/ DGS 8108006. when i bring up the Inventory of records, it shows 7 films. One has a camera with no other symbol, which allows me to view the entire film on my home computer. Five others have a camera with a key above. I have been able to access those through a terminal at an affiliate library, the Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Library Main Branch. However, this one file has a camera with key about and also a search or spy glass:
I am not able to access any information from this film on my home computer and same results at the library. I have not had a chance to try at a Family Center yet. A cousin whom I found through genealogical research has tried at a Family Center in Twinsburg Ohio, but was not able to access the records there. I am desparate to search this film for specific birth records for my great grandmother and to see whether certain other known persons with the same family name from this location during the period of time covered in this film are her siblings. The family name is Sobiesinski but has received a variety of spellings in the indexing process because he records are hand written. That would allow me to know how closely related my newly found cousins are. I am registered with FamilySearch and can be reached by email. My sincere thanks for any assistance you might provide.
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For the above microfilm, the catalogue entry is https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/165301
As a non church member I get the viewing message
- To view these images do one of the following: You may be able to view this image by visiting one of our partners' sites or the legal record custodian (fees may apply).
This is FamilySearch "code" or "double speak" for the fact that these records are available to church members on their home computers, but for copyright reasons are not available to non church members.
Non church members must look to other genealogy websites, which generally require payment, or to the originating archive, which from the catalogue entry above is hard to tell as a number of different archives are mentioned. They are however stated to be Roman Catholic records, so perhaps the website Matricula Online (which I think is free) might have something.
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Thank you. I will try to have the search run at a Family Center since those are opening up more over the past 3-4 weeks.
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If you click on the Magnifying glass, you will be able to search an index of this film. Generally the message
- To view these images do one of the following: You may be able to view this image by visiting one of our partners' sites or the legal record custodian (fees may apply).
means that ONLY members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints can view the records. These restrictions are due to contracts between FamilySearch and the record owners. Even if you go to a Family History Center it is highly unlikely that you will be able to view the records, though if you're lucky a LDS member will let you view the records with their account.
There is currently maintenance of the computer systems use by FHCs, and access to records is not possible. Because of that, there's a new online service: https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/library-lookup-service-fhl/ I used this and FHL staff looked up a set of records for me that normally is only accessible to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. These records were also Catholic records, from Germany. This service is probably the best way to gain access to these records, as I looked on Matricula and they don't have records from Gorzno.
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Thank you for this helpful information.
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