Carrie, To be certain I understand what you are saying, if a person pays $10.50, then the film is permanently kept by the FHC that borrowed the film? As i recall, that is what happened. I paid about $10-$11 per film and it became a part of the permanent collection at that FHC. Ron Mlejnek > > From: "Carrie Taylor" <carrot@penn.com> > Date: 2004/04/05 Mon AM 11:42:17 CDT > To: CZECH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: RE: [CZ] LDS films Explanation > > I help run the local Family History Center and thought maybe an explanation > of the rental policy would help answer some questions. > The rental fee of $3.50 is to pay for mailing from the family history > Library in Salt Lake and back again. With an estimated mailing time of 2 > weeks there and two weeks back that leaves 2 weeks to view the film. For > most of us that is not enough time. The film can be renewed two more times > for 6 weeks at a time and then becomes indefinite. The total cost of $10.50 > is then applied to producing another film so that it can be loaned out to > some one else. That way a film is not tied up too long when others want to > research the same information. I think it is a very reasonable charge for > what we get in return. > The reason we are not allowed to take the films out of the Family History > Center is due to the agreements made when the LDS are allowed to film the > records that the film not leave the premises. Copyrights and all that > stuff. Some don't allow the films to leave the Family History Library in > Salt Lake at all(Unfortunately those always seem to be the ones I > want...)And of course not leaving the building protects the great assets of > the library from being lost or stolen. > Carrie Taylor in PA > -----Original Message----- > From: Lorraine Moore [mailto:lmoor68@bellsouth.net] > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 1:58 PM > To: CZECH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CZ] LDS films -- Donation > > > At 12:30 PM 4/4/2004 -0500, you wrote: > >Perhaps this might offend some, but why not just purchase the film and > >donate it to your local FHC? > > Ron, I did not know you could purchase the film from the FHC -- at least my > local FHC says I cannot. What I have done is to renew the film two more > times so that they will stay on an "indefinite" basis for anyone to use. > > I currently have 7 rolls from Ryglice, Poland, and some surrounding > towns. I also have some other information (not Church records) for my > uncle's birthplace in Yugoslavia!!! > > In addition, I have purchased the fiche for the IL birth and death indexes > -- cannot remember exactly how many I have but 153 or thereabouts comes to > mind. I have not looked at these indexes in quite a while. > > Lorraine > > > ______________________________ > > > > ==== CZECH Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail message to: > CZECH-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) > CZECH-D-request@rootsweb.com (for a digest of multiple messages) > In the body include only one word: unsubscribe > >