How To Register For A Familysearch Account 2017

Admission to FamilySearch Digital Microfilm Bachelor

December  xiii, 2017 Update:

FamilySearch now requires a free registration account to

admission their site. Registration instructions can be institute here

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FamilySearch is a nonprofit family history arrangement (coordinated past The Church building of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) dedicated to connecting families across generations.

On September seven, 2017, FamilySearch discontinued their microfilm lending service. Toronto Public Library is an Affiliate Public Library and participated in the microfilm lending service by providing a microfilm choice-upwardly location at Toronto Reference Library.

Through its designation as an Affiliate Public Library, Toronto Public Library is pleased to announce that FamilySearch has enabled access to some -- but not all -- restricted digital microfilm collections on calculator workstations in Toronto Public Library branches. See *** NOTE *** below

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To appointment, over 1.five one thousand thousand microfilms (approximately 1.five billion images) have been digitized by FamilySearch, including all microfilms which were borrowed in the last five years.

Restricted admission digital microfilm will display with the photographic camera and key icon (example below on the right):

After logging in to a Toronto Public Library branch computer, continue to the FamilySearch website (www.familysearch.org) and search for a digital microfilm drove. The restricted access digital microfilm collections will display on Toronto Public Library computers without the key icon above the camera because access is 'unlocked' through the connection to a Toronto Public Library IP address.

Delight notation that remote admission is not available: restricted digital microfilm access is only bachelor via a computer workstation physically located in a Toronto Public Library co-operative.

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Some digital images may have privacy, copyright, contractual, or other restrictions which limit admission; a digitized microfilm record may withal require that you log in as a fellow member of the Church building of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or that yous admission it at a Family History Center. If such restrictions use, a notification will appear in the microfilm clarification.

EXAMPLE:

Film #102042567

While signed in at Toronto Public Library, the 'microfilm restriction' key appears to a higher place the camera icon; clicking on the icon reveals a screen of 'Photograph Not Available' images and a 'Images Available' message:

To verify whether you will have access to whatsoever particular digital microfilm at Toronto Public Library, you lot can contact staff  before you visit a co-operative and verify whether a specific digital microfilm is attainable on library computers.

Please provide staff with the picture number from the FamilySearch catalogue.

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Researchers who require longer than the ane-hour Reserve-a-Computer limit can also use one of four microfilm scanner computer workstations available on the 2nd flooring of Toronto Reference Library. Please sign in and obtain a keyboard from staff at the 2d floor Information Desk-bound.

Please view the video tutorial by James Tanner titled "Where are the digitized records on FamilySearch.org?" for detailed search instructions.

Source: https://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/local-history-genealogy/2017/10/affiliate-public-library-status-for-restricted-digital-microfilm-in-familysearch-collections.html

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