No longer able to access Cook Islands Genealogies in New Zealand?
Was there a recent law change or something? Like the link below is my family genealogy:
e.g.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVG-DWTL?i=1348&cat=2017778&lang=en
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Laws have changed in the Cook Islands, and because of the law change, FamilySearch permissions and restrictions have changed.
Please keep trying to view your records, to see if in the future, access is restored and you can see your records once again.
Other Genealogy sites have different contracts and access to records FamilySearch may not currently have; so, also try those like Ancestry.com, FindMyPast, or even the actual archive site in the country posted in the catalog record as a possible source while you are not able to access them on FamilySearch.
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@KimioraBrowne Can you provide a description in words as to specifically what record or collection your link was for? Since the link is not working, I cannot tell the specifics.
If, for example, it refers to the Oral Genealogies for Cook Islands as listed here: https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/genealogies/submission/9/2:2:2:MMJH-B6T then those would not be available anywhere else.
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Many thanks for the response.
I bookmarked that URL as an example because I often access it.
There is another URL, another way of listing few Oral Genealogies and most of them are blocked / no longer available just like William Richard Marsters that I tried to access:
I will keep trying to access those URLs, but this will slow down my family genealogy research. :(
cheers Team.
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It would be great if these substantive changes to existing collections, whether restrictions or later un-restrictions, or any known timescales, could be notified to this Community via, perhaps, a single pinned post that is kept up to date. I'm not talking about minor changes e.g. fixes to individual index entries, just the high volume situations, often legislation driven, that we are currently seeing a lot of. Maybe any unaffected external sources could be mentioned, e.g. national archives.
It doesn't feel ideal to be asking posters to keep checking, they have better things to do; and nor can it be a good use of mods' time to keep answering the same questions over and over again.
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@SerraNola - the icing on the notification cake would be to direct researchers to replacement sources of data - for instance, to local registration offices. I don't mean FS should have a list of such offices, rather that the notification should say that people should contact local / state / national (delete as appropriate) offices for country X to replace access via FS. I suggest this because I fear that some researchers don't realise that this is an option, in contrast to, say, researchers into English genealogy where we've always had to go to the national registration office for our detailed certificates.
Of course, alternative access may also be restricted to some degree, but usually state / national websites will be clear what the requirements are.
Possibly a role for the Wikis?
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