Changes

*To access the digitised records '''you will need to Sign In on the computer at the FamilySearch Centre or Affiliate Library using your personal Sign In details''', refer [[FamilySearch#India Records| FamilySearch, section India Records]], so '''take your user name and password with you''', or you may experience delays.<ref> December 2017 Newsletter, now no longer available, from Society of Australian Genealogists, a FamilySearch Affiliate Library, and April 2018 Newsletter from [https://web.archive.org/web/20200720120926/http://www.sog.org.uk/uploads/Newsletters/SoG_monthly_newsletter_apr_2018.pdf Society of Genealogists], London, a FamilySearch Affiliate Library (archived page).</ref>. At the Family History Centre, you will first need to open the FamilySearch Portal (which must have been previously installed) on the computer, and then sign in with your personal sign in details. (Although details are minimal, from c January 2023 it appears that access through your own laptop or other device is possible, provided you are physically present at the FamilySearch Centre but to access the records you will need to download the FamilySearch Portal while connected to the LDS Church Liahona WiFi). At an Affiliate Library you will need to make sure that you select a computer which has the FamilySearch portal installed, (exact name not known, perhaps may not include the word portal) . "...you need to log out of FamilySearch before you connect to the Library's wi-fi and then follow a similar procedurelog in again, for the system to recognize you and allow access". (You can log out of FS before you leave home).<ref>Áine Ní Donnghaile [https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/546829/#Comment_546829 Affiliate libraries...] ''FamilySearch Community Forum'' 7 March 2024. Accessed 9 March 2024.</ref> *Before you visit a Centre or Affiliate Library, enquire whether it is possible to take a copy of a required record, what means are available, whether there is a charge, whether you can download to your own laptop, or whether you can/need to bring a device such as a USB flash drive/memory stick, or whether is is possible to take a screen shot of a record and send it to your home computer. The only way to keep a copy of the record for future reference may be to either to print out a copy on paper, or by using a memory stickor laptop. (If you directly "attach" a copy of the record to a person in FamilySearch Family Tree, you will not be able to view the record outside the Family History Centre/Affiliate Library.)

Society of Genealogists is a FamilySearch '''Affiliate Library'''.

The Society of Genealogists '''closed''' 17 July 2021 as it is moving to also a new locationFamilySearch scanning centre where your family history or a book of genealogical value may be scanned, see [https://www. From mid May 2022 there is limited access for SoG members in the temporary premisesfamilysearch. The new premises at London, N1 are due to be open in the summer of 2023org/en/library/digital-library-book-scanning FamilySearch Book Scanning].

**[https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/familysearch-affiliate-library-how-toaffiliates/ How to Become a about FamilySearch Affiliate LibraryLibraries] June 6, 2019FamilySearch***[https://www. FamilySearch Blogfamilysearch. org/en/affiliates/onboarding Information on Becoming an Affiliate Library] The contact email address is now <nowiki>affiliatelibraries@familysearch.org</nowiki> (introduced 26 June 2021). ***[https://www.familysearch.org/en/affiliates/faq Affiliate Library Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)]

**[https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/familysearch-affiliate-library-faq/ Frequently Asked Questions: FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries] June 6, 2019 FamilySearch Blog.**[https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-we-become-an-affiliate-library How do we become an affiliate library?] FamilySearchHelp Center article.**[https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/our-affiliate-library-needs-access-to-restricted-images Our affiliate library needs access to restricted images] FamilySearch Helpcenter Help Center article.

*[https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Family_History_Center_Portal Family History Center Portal] FamilySearch Wiki. Several premium online research services, usually pay websites, are available at FamilySearch Centres with free access. These websites must be accessed at a FamilySearch Centre, (Church members may have additional access at church meeting houses) and are '''not''' available at Affiliate Libraries. Includes (at 2023/Feb./03) [[Findmypast]] probably the Library version (or perhaps an even more limited version as the wording at Feb. 2023 is "not all of the content from Findmypast is available") which does not include newspapers, with the same ownership British Newspaper Archive available at select locations only (previous wording '''some''' UK Family History Centres); Ancestry-Institution Version, fold3 (owned by Ancestry) and MyHeritage-Library Edition and in the United Kingdom only, Geneanet, and at select locations only (previous wording '''some''' UK Family History Centres) The Genealogist. Note MyHeritage has purchased Filae, a resource for accessing French archives and tracing [[French]] ancestors and MyHeritage now contains many French records, and elsewhere these are stated to be included in the MyHeritage-Library Edition.<ref>[https://biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/blogs/introducing-myheritage-library-edition Introducing: MyHeritage Library Edition] Ottawa Public Library.</ref> (Filae is a Partner for Latter day Saints Church members.) From April 2023 NewspaperArchive an an American pay website (mainly US newspapers) is available for free (previous periods either not available or only available in selected locations). It is suggested you check before visiting whether the FamilySearch Centre you intend visiting has the website you are interested in as '''changes are possible'''.