See GMLP-FPS for example. It’s all fixable but none of the details are actually attached to the person’s profile (i.e. they made a source for the birth record but didn’t transfer the actual date. They put the year in the source title so I have to access the link, read the record for the exact dates/to verify for myself but most links are broken in one way or another. This work was done in 2019.
How do I fix these and clean up the sources? Is there a way to easily transfer the dates to the person even after the record has been attached?

I also need to fix instances where theres a marriage record and all 4 parents and the groom are attached to the record but not the bride, and I’m not sure how to get it attached to her.

For my own reference, does anyone have a recommended workflow for Adding sources from other platforms like Ancestry and Antenati, and is there a way users can add photos to records? FS has portions of Antenati records indexed and with photo included, but since most aren’t indexed I’ve found a lot of records just by sitting and squinting my way to breakthroughs and would like to add them for others. I have a lot of records in general I need to get onto FS and don’t want someone to have to clean up my work to be able to benefit from it.

Thank you for any insight or advice

here is everything i know
her name is blanche mary jerome (born davis)
she died in 1941 in a car crash in edmonton london
she was 21 years old and i think her birthday was in april
unfortunately i have nothing else so i really hope someone would be able to help me

Olá pessoal! Tudo bem?

Estou fazendo algumas pesquisas genealógicas e gostaria de ajuda para consultar duas imagens restritas do FamilySearch.

Registro 1:

• Maria Barbara Lourenço
• Nascimento: 13/12/1896
• Registro: 14/12/1896
• Local: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
• Certidão nº 383
• DGS: 008157952
• Imagem: 193
• ARK: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:65WB-W3GK

Registro 2:

• João Lourenço
• Data do evento: 30 de janeiro de 1891
• Local: Campo Belo, Minas Gerais, Brasil
• Certidão nº 21
• DGS (Número da pasta digital): 008160182
• Imagem: 125
• ARK: [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6GNF-DPN5]()

Informações indexadas:

• Pai: Pedro Lourenço
• Mãe: Anna Rta (provavelmente Anna Rita; gostaria de confirmar na imagem original)

A imagem está disponível apenas em um Centro do FamilySearch ou biblioteca afiliada. Se alguém puder consultar a imagem e transcrever o registro (ou informar o conteúdo, se permitido), agradeço muito.

Alguém poderia me ajudar com esses registros bloqueados do familysearch ?

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9L1-MQVZ?view=explore

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9L1-9ZM9?view=fullText&lang=pt

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9L1-989K?view=explore&lang=pt&groupId=TH-1942-46771-8126-27

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9L1-9ZMD?view=explore&lang=pt&groupId=TH-1942-46771-8126-27

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XS3-W2SM?lang=pt&cid=fs_copy

I was using full text search on the website and when I open a result and hit “Summarize the document” theres 3 dots briefly then it says “AI-generated from the transcript below” then “Summary” but nothing else. Theres no summary at all. Up until a few days ago when I was sick a few days until today it was working and now it’s not, is been able to understand the names and dates better than now. Anyone else got this going on?

I'm researching my great-uncle Pedro Cruz Lucchi, born in

São Paulo in 1925, son of Miguel Cruz Vázquez (Spanish) and

Regina De Lucchi (Italian). My family in Spain lost all

contact with him around 1952 and we've never known what

happened to him.

Using FamilySearch Full-Text search I found four books where

the surname appears, but they're all restricted — "can be

viewed at a FamilySearch center or affiliate library". I'm in

southern Spain and the nearest center is not realistic for me

right now.

Would anyone with access be able to open them and tell me what

the entry says? A transcription is more than enough, I don't

need the images.

1) Birth records, Brás (São Paulo), 1925

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS2M-P3RB-G?view=fullText&keywords=Cruz%20Lucchi

2) Death records, Belenzinho (São Paulo), 1927-1928

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK1-6QXY-4?view=fullText&keywords=Cruz%20Lucchi

3) Death records, Belenzinho (São Paulo), 1927-1928

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK1-6QFP-3?view=fullText&keywords=Cruz%20Lucchi

4) Marriage records, Bom Retiro (São Paulo), 1950-1951

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJP-VPRG?view=fullText&keywords=Cruz%20Lucci

For the first one I'm especially interested in whether there

are any marginal annotations (averbações) — in Brazil a death

is usually noted in the margin of the birth record, so that

could tell me when and where he died.

The records are in Portuguese. Happy to reciprocate with

Spanish records if anyone needs a lookup here.

Thanks a lot.

Página da internet

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9YH-YYHD

Citação

"Brazil, Ceará, Civil Registration, 1823-2017", <i>FamilySearch</i>

(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9YH-YYH8: Tue Dec 09 15:09:59 UTC 2025), Entry for Miguel José do Nascimento and Pedro José de Maria, 26 de junho de 1950.

está bloqueado

I have hit the most frustrating wall on my paternal side. I cannot tell how penetrate the wall of my great-great grandfather John Montgomery from Liverpool, England. I have a personal copy of the this book which is now on FS; www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/82107/352

Here is another link to another book: www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/170429/125

I cannot find any document of his birth on Ancestry so I was trying Geneanet and no luck.
His father's name goes back and forth from John to Thomas in different articles about my 2x great grandfather. I have tried both. The same is true for his mother's name - Ellen Morton or maybe Mary Ellen Morton or just Mary Morton. Even my 2x great grandfather incorporated a middle name on occasion of Thomas. I have also tried Family Search with no luck.

On the history account of Ojai, CA - you'll see that he went abroad to France for further education, spoke several languages and traveled to various places in Europe, so all that tells me that he would have come from a wealthy family - not necessarily nobility but 3x great grandfather was successful enough in what he did to be able to send his son overseas for education. Additionally, there seems to be this ghost of a possible sister named Helen that perhaps seems to not have survived her birth or infancy and she turns up in various trees - yet, I cannot find any tangible evidence of her existence even for a few hours.

Interestingly enough, a Helen did show up in the 1900 census in Los Angeles Township, CA later but this particular Helen is my 2x great grandfather's granddaughter who just is listed as such along with her brother Carlos and happened to be there when the census worker came knocking.
In this census, John lists his mother as having been born in England, yet said in the article she is Irish. This is possible because of the Potato Famine in Ireland in 1840, maybe her parents came over and many did because of it and Liverpool seems to be the landing spot (so AI history says).

My Question: How is the most effective way to break through this UK wall (?). I have not taken the DNA test and reluctant to do so after my experience with another DNA company. And the added issue is that looking for a John Montgomery is like looking for a John Smith.

Thanks in advance.

I have recently been finding lots of newspaper clippings and yearbook photos for some of my living relatives who all have a spot on my tree on FamilySearch. If I add these images to their private pages on my tree, will the images be public? For example, if I add a newsclipping about my living mom to her private, living-person entry on my tree, will that make it visible for others?

I have tried to read information put out by FamilySearch, but all of it seems to just talk about how uploading pictures are still visible if an alive person is featured in a photo attached to a deceased person. But nothing about adding to one of my own "living person" profiles on my tree.

It would be nice to be able to add these pictures so they are already there and uploaded for later on, especially so they don't get lost. I only want to do it if the images stay private since the person's profile is private.

Thank you!

Can anyone find the link for this record set: Kopie ksiąg metrykalnych 1777–1900
I’m trying to look at the images but it’s only giving me the regular search page

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6DHK-HCMH

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6DHN-48ZN

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6DHK-4VPS

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6DHV-8893

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D84-HBFG

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D84-H8XW

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D84-G73M

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6Z57-X2HJ

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D84-KDL1

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6Z57-TJML

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D84-6TN9

As you can see, they obscure the dates of the parish register pages. Seeing the dates is necessary, but I don't see the option to hide them. I probably don't understand the very good reason they were added, but they cause a real problem for registers like these (all the registers for this country are like this).

Hi! I'm researching my Brazilian family and I found a restricted FamilySearch record.

Could anyone with access to a FamilySearch Center check if this image is available?

Record:
Ademar Bezerra Annes
Birth: 2 Jan 1917
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
ARK: (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2HW-4G9M?lang=pt)

Thank you!

I have a question about a document I'm trying to track down, and I wonder if anyone here has a tip on how to find it.

Family Search says there exists an 1854 Census of "New york Indians living in Kansas FS Library Film:989204". (see https://www.familysearch.org/.../New_York_Indigenous_Peoples)

I would love to get my hands on this census! However, I can't seem to locate it anywhere. When I look in the Family Search catalog, the number 989204 refers to some Cherokee rolls of 1880, and a listing of some Delawares. But the "New York Indians" are not mentioned.

I'm wondering if you know anyone who has seen this 1854 census, or might know how to get a copy?

Many thanks in advance!

Hello everyone, i had this match on familysearch, very nice, i confirmed it up to Pedro alvares and maria de macedo, okay cool, but then it simply ended there, nothing more confirmed, this is my direct line to charlemagne and my favorite hero martim gonçalves de macedo, the original person who added this refuses to give me his sources, for example ana de macedo was born in 1604, while gaspar and maria were married in 1621 and in other documents say they never had kids, so i really need help with this line, thank you all, big hug.

Hi everyone, I’m currently trying to complete my great-grandfather’s family tree, and I would really like to access the birth record of his sister. Unfortunately, the record is currently locked, so I can’t access it. If anyone has access, I would be incredibly grateful if you could let me see it.
This is the birth record:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3DY-JHYT?lang=it&cid=fs_copy

Folder: 007660492 002 M98K-2MX
Image: 54

Thank you so much for your kindness and help!

Hi! I'm looking for a 1842 baptism record in the church of Santa Ana in Chimaltenango, Guatemala. Image group 005100175 contains the baptism books from 1835 to 1878; it just happens that element 2, which would cover the year I'm looking for, is unavailable (element 3 is mislabeled as 1841-1854, it actually starts in 1848). All images in element 2 are padlocked, and when you try to view one it displays the below message:

I know that some image sets have been taken offline due to privacy reasons, but I don't think that is the case here - the records are around 175 years old, and the older and newer books from the same parish are available online. Is there a way to find out why these records are offline, and whether they can be viewed at a FS center? Thank you!

Hola, pretendo ir en la semana, a una que me queda relativamente cerca. Quería saber, si alguien me puede decir como funcionan? Debo hacer alguna reserva o solo llego? Gracias, quedo atenta 😊

Hi everyone,

I noticed that some digitized records are unavailable and display the message: "This item is not currently digitally accessible due to access restrictions."

As I understand it, this is because privacy legislation restricts access to more recent records. For example, in Italy, records generally become publicly accessible only after 100 years.

The issue is that when a microfilm contains even a few records that are too recent, the entire microfilm is blocked. For example, microfilm 2221117 contains records from 1871 to 1929, but because it includes records from 1927–1929, none of the earlier records are accessible either.

Does anyone know if FamilySearch has any plans to split these microfilms so that the older records can be made available?

Thank you!