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Originally Posted by NickiP
What's really frustrating is that you can access say some registers for a parish at the FHC but there are others from the same parish that aren't available because they were apparently filmed under a different agreement which prohibits it. How that can happen I don't know when it's the same archive but it is really annoying.
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While it may irritating to us, I find some comfort that on the internet there are some rules which are adhered to. In the wild west of the nineties, family history societies found that their hard worked on indexes were acquired by overseas organisations, who then used the material for their own profit. For many years, certain bishops refused, for religious reasons, to allow the Mormons to copy their registers. It made research difficult, but I can appreciate the disquiet.