Population registers Belgium
Hi,
Some months ago, the population records of the Belgian locations all disappeared. Now, to our great pleasure and thankfulness, most have come back online - even if sometimes the location has to be searched in a different way. However, some are still offline (difficult to determine for an end user how many and which one exactly).
Now I was looking for the records of Beuzet, Namur Belgium.
I think they were digitized, I can see the entry:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1393254?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Could the team link it back to the images?
It would really help a lot of genealogists that all existing population records are consultable online.
Cecile
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That film (2418904) certainly looks like it's offline in error: the catalog says it contains Beuzet records up to 1900 and Bioul registers 1846-1856. They're both in Namur, and other films from Bioul are online, so it's not a contract issue, and it shouldn't be a privacy restriction, a minimum of 124 years later.
There's a Help Center article on reporting Catalog errors; it gives two emails (FHL-SLC-FilmRequests@churchofjesuschrist.org and books@familysearch.org), neither of which sound like they have anything to do with image permissions, but perhaps someone at one of them knows who to forward the request to?…
(Getting the Help Center to cough up that article is …an exercise. No variation on "report catalog error" works; you have to use "suggest" or "request catalog correction" for the correct result to be on the first page.)
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thank you, I suppose the film number is already a good info to start with.
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I am having the same issue here with Bladen (2432327)
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1496531?availability=Family%20History%20Library
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Steve, you mean Blanden.
I have written a mail to FHL-SLC-FilmRequests@churchofjesuschrist.org about this but got no answer…
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I am writing to support europe now
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Eu-support is UK/Ireland ans they send me to this group.
They could not confirm that the restoration of the records is still ongoing.
Advise: look from time to time if you see them back visible....
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Ashlee Thanks for your reply.
At some point I plan to start inquiring (first at my local family history library) and then higher up the LDS church latter about access to other population registers that haven't been yet been microfilmed for Belgium.
If you have suggestions on who I should reach out to I'd appreciate it. These are important to matching up those who emigrated to Wisconsin. In our early years as a state the naturalization papers didn't require much detail. The NARA ship arrivals don't help you figure out where in the country they came from. And only one year of departure/boarding records has survived in Belgium.
I'm not trying to brag, but I want to show that I and others like Cecile are trying to accomplish a fairly large amount of research, and any help we can get from the LDS chuch would be appreciated. I wish we still had a high ranking Belgian official like Lucien Leonard around to help pursude things from that end.
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From a quick joint analysis comparing the population records that are listed in the archive site of Namur (arch.be) to what Family Search has, there are 28 registers in the Namur province that are not online and you'd have to see in person.
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