image for record
a lot of times we get or search a record hint only to be shown just the indexed version of the record. The information for the record had to of been taken, in most of the cases from an actual image. Usually we can find this image in a different site. There are many times that the actual image has further information we need than what was indexed. We need to be able to have the image attached also to the record. As for example I looked at a record that had information about the Christening of a son for my 4th great grandfather that we hadn't before known about. But this record was just an indexed record. I couldn't find an image of it on Family Search so I went to Ancestry where I found the actual image. Not only did it have this Christening date on it, but it also had the birthdate listed for this boy. We need to have the image attached to these indexed records please!
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FamilySearch cannot publish images and link them to the Index without the permission of the record owner. Ancestry.com and the other major genealogical companies generally have ownership rights to images on their website. So FamilySearch cannot publish images of records that can also be found on Ancestry.com without Ancestry's permission. FS and Ancestry have a partnership, in exchange for enforcing these rules FamilySearch is allowed to give all members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints a free Ancestry subscription.
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There are many cases where the index or other finding aid is from a different organization than the record custodian. This has always been true. In the old days, a local genealogy or history society would negotiate access to a register, index it, and publish that index in book form. Researchers would buy the book or borrow it from the library, and then use the information in it to purchase extracts from the parish or archive. The only difference nowadays is that instead of a book and a paper extract, you search the index on a website and get a digital image from the record owner in your email or from another website.
Yes, it's much nicer when the index is attached to the register it comes from, but that's simply not always possible, especially not when the documents are held by a for-profit entity.
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