LDS film loan

[Just Gillian]

As I am having no luck in getting hold of anyone at the local LDS centre, does anyone know, please, if there is a way of telling from the page below whether these films would be available for ordering?

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=468749&disp=Registri+ecclesiastici++

[Guinevere]

They should be but they may take a while because they will have to be sent from Salt Lake.

[Just Gillian]

Thanks Gwynne. I'll keep trying their number in that case.

[JBee]

They are usually manned by volunteers and have set opening hours. When I wanted to order films I had to go in to the local centre and pay in advance - they then phoned me to tell me when they'd arrived. Believe there is a warehouse/depot in the Midlands which sends the films to the local centres.

However this was some years ago now.

[Just Gillian]

Thanks JBee. My nearest one should be open three mornings a week, according to the LDS site, but they've never been there yet when I've tried.

[Merry]

Thanks JBee. My nearest one should be open three mornings a week, according to the LDS site, but they've never been there yet when I've tried.

Gillian, Do you mean you tried to visit, or were they just not answering the phone?

[Just Gillian]

Merry - it's about 8 miles away, so I'd just been trying to get them by phone for months now to confirm their opening times etc.

However, I tried on the off chance yesterday afternoon - when they were closed - and got an answerphone for the first time. I left my number and have just got home and found they had called me back and will try me again! So, fingers crossed - if the above films are available on loan, I might finally be able to confirm that OH's 4x gt grandparents are also the parents of the man in Bath whose denization papers I downloaded from TNA and find the parents of a nephew named in 3x gt grandfather's will.

[Merry]

Sounds hopeful then!

I've not tried to get to my local one for years. I notice their opening hours have been extended a lot recently, so it might be worth me having another try. When I did go there (25 miles round trip) they were always closed during their oening times! Think I tried three or four times and then gave up.

[Just Gillian]

This chap, who sounded quite elderly, said something vague on the lines of "we'll see what we can sort out", so I think perhaps their stated opening times are not written in stone!

Anyway, it's some progress at least!