There was earlier discussion regarding accessibility of LDS records at home vs. family history library. Here's a link to an article that details what's what. https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/whats-search-records-home/

Bah, humbug to FS.  The most important NYC records are now almost unavailable.  The birth, marriage and death records for NYC, a cornerstone of any NYC research, are digitized but only available at an FHC library.  Not from home, not from the many affiliate libraries.  The 1890 Police Census is another such database. I'm told it's a contractual thing with absolutely no idea when or if the contract will ever enable wider access to these records.  FamilySearch should have kept the microfilm rentals for such records.  Virginia From: Sue Johnpeter <suejohnpeter@gmail.com> To: NYC-Roots <NYC-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2018 11:22 AM Subject: [NYC-ROOTS] LDS film availability There was earlier discussion regarding accessibility of LDS records at home vs. family history library. Here's a link to an article that details what's what. https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/whats-search-records-home/

Virginia, While going to the FHL is not necessarily easy for some, I have found getting the documents (which are now digital) incredibly easy. I have been going to my local FHL about 1 x a week and I download about 30 records while I am there. FREE. Before if I wanted that many records, I would have to order each NYC film at $6-8 and there would be 1-2 records per film. Now I just make a list of the name, date, film #, film name and cert # and I locate them and download them to my flash drive and Voila! I would be more than glad to do this for anyone who can provide me with the needed info for a nominal fee for my time and gas if that is reasonable. NYC records only as I am very versed at doing those. Gail ~ Gail Schinnerer Jorgensen ~ On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:11 AM, VLB via NYC-ROOTS <nyc-roots@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Bah, humbug to FS. The most important NYC records are now almost > unavailable. The birth, marriage and death records for NYC, a cornerstone > of any NYC research, are digitized but only available at an FHC library. > Not from home, not from the many affiliate libraries. The 1890 Police > Census is another such database. > I'm told it's a contractual thing with absolutely no idea when or if the > contract will ever enable wider access to these records. FamilySearch > should have kept the microfilm rentals for such records. Virginia > > From: Sue Johnpeter <suejohnpeter@gmail.com> > To: NYC-Roots <NYC-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2018 11:22 AM > Subject: [NYC-ROOTS] LDS film availability > > There was earlier discussion regarding accessibility of LDS records at > home vs. family history library. > Here's a link to an article that details what's what. > https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/whats-search-records-home/ > > > > > > > >