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The Catalog is a guide to birth, marriage, and death records; census records; church registers; books; periodicals; family histories and many other records that contain genealogical information. These records may be searchable online, on microfiche or microfilm, in a book or in a computer file. | The Catalog is a guide to birth, marriage, and death records; census records; church registers; books; periodicals; family histories and many other records that contain genealogical information. These records may be searchable online, on microfiche or microfilm, in a book or in a computer file. | ||
Some | Some entries in the FamilySearch Catalog include images of records. When an image is available in the catalog, a camera icon will appear to the right of the microfilm note associated with that image. A description of the images is found at [https://familysearch.org/blog/en/news-flash-digitized-microfilm-drawer-computer/ News Flash! Digitized Microfilm: From the Drawer to Your Computer] | ||
Most microfilm and microfiche records can be sent to your nearest [[Introduction to LDS Family History Centers|FamilySearch Center]]. If a particular item is available at another FamilySearch Center besides the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, then a pull-down menu will indicate the locations where the item is available. | Most microfilm and microfiche records can be sent to your nearest [[Introduction to LDS Family History Centers|FamilySearch Center]]. If a particular item is available at another FamilySearch Center besides the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, then a pull-down menu will indicate the locations where the item is available. | ||