{"id":5274,"date":"2017-08-29T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5274"},"modified":"2017-08-29T15:28:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T15:28:09","slug":"image-available-but-not-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5274","title":{"rendered":"Image Available&#8211;But Not At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5276\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image-not-available-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image-not-available-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image-not-available-768x362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/image-not-available.jpg 998w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><em>FamilySearch<\/em> continues to put more and more material online in digital format. Some believe that one day it will all be as close as our nearest internet device.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>FamilySearch\u00a0<\/em>continues to create more digital images of records and while they have announced that microfilm will no longer be lent out to members of their vast library network, it does not appear that all those images will be available directly in every genealogist&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p>Increasingly when attempting to view the digital images of material from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/catalog\/search\"><em>FamilySearch\u00a0<\/em>catalog<\/a>, one gets the following message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span class=\"\" data-ng-hide=\"noPrivs\">To view these images you must do one of the following:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"film-permissions-messages\">\n<li class=\"\" data-ng-show=\"permission.FHLC\"><em>Access the site at a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/locations\">family history center<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-ng-show=\"permission.affiliate\"><em>Access the site at a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/locations\">FamilySearch affiliate library<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The reasons for this probably stem largely from agreements\u00a0<em>FamilySearch<\/em> has with the original holder of the records. Users of microfilm often saw restrictions on the film&#8217;s use on the box in which the film was contained. Restrictions on the use of some materials is nothing new. Some of the digital items that are digital use in a family history center or\u00a0<em>FamilySearch\u00a0<\/em>affiliate library only are available on\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> as a part of their fee-based membership.<\/p>\n<p>There are quite a few records where digital images of microfilm can be viewed on any internet-connected device no matter where the person accessing the material is located.<\/p>\n<p><em>FamilySearch<\/em> is using the internet to deliver the images of records to their family history centers and affiliate libraries instead of sending them microfilm. Digital image distribution is cheaper. Microfilm had restrictions as well. This is nothing new. That film had to be viewed in a library&#8211;just like these images have to be viewed in a family history center or an affiliate library. It&#8217;s the distribution mechanism that has changed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FamilySearch continues to put more and more material online in digital format. Some believe that one day it will all be as close as our nearest internet device. Maybe not. Probably not. While FamilySearch\u00a0continues to create more digital images of records and while they have announced that microfilm will no longer be lent out to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}