FamilySearch - Has anyone been successful ...

[shanew147]

The images were available when the BMD index went live at first. The image shown was the relevant page from the Index book.


Shane

[MikeH57]

Hi All,
   I get exactly the same issues as Barbara. I am using a Mac, and tried viewing the image in both Safari and Firefox.

Mike

[owenc]

Does this site actually show you the records! They seem to have added in new records that i never seen before!

[Barbara Eyre]

Thank you everyone! Glad I'm not the only one who was experiencing the forever "Image Loading" thing. whew! Really, I'm sane ... well, most of the time! hehehe

So, even if I was able to view the digital folder image, it would not have been anything of real use ... an image of the page telling you where to look for the actual document ... ummm, whooppee.      Or am I missing something?

I went to our local LDS place and they had NOTHING ... EVERYTHING would have had to be shipped in from Utah for me to view any microfiche. I don't know why they are even open if they have no copies of microfiche or whatever .... or is that standard? *shrugs*

[JamesJGardnerJr]

I think the clue is "Image not available on line".
This is a beta site under development. They have posted many records and have made the images available for some of the records. I read in one place that they plan on making all the images available as the site matures. I have retrieved many documents from the beta site for digital folders that have been posted live, and they are the actual license, certificate, etc. not the index. You might try consulting the link below for a list of familysearch record collections. Note the collections with a camera have the digital images online. You might try some of them to see what is available.

http://beta.familysearch.org/s/collection/list

[owenc]

I think the clue is "Image not available on line".
This is a beta site under development. They have posted many records and have made the images available for some of the records. I read in one place that they plan on making all the images available as the site matures. I have retrieved many documents from the beta site for digital folders that have been posted live, and they are the actual license, certificate, etc. not the index. You might try consulting the link below for a list of familysearch record collections. Note the collections with a camera have the digital images online. You might try some of them to see what is available.

http://beta.familysearch.org/s/collection/list

So they will actually show you the actual records interesting. When will they be available for the ireland records?

[Barbara Eyre]

James -

Thanks so much for the additional information. It certainly eases my mind that me and my computer were doing nothing wrong. I just felt like I was missing out or something.

That link to the lists is extremely helpful!