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LDS-Film Warning Answer


By mendezdetorres - Posted on 11 January 2007

I am Daniel. I am from the Mormon Church, the sticker isn't all that big of a deal. The reson why people haven't seen the sticker on the films in the drawers is because those films in the drawers were ordered before the year 2000. Before the year 2000 patrons were able to take the films to ther FHCs if they wished there wasn't a strict policy as there is now. But something happened that I cant remeber because I was about 8 years old, but in 2000 the Counci from the Church made an act of 2000 which stated "From this day forward Microfilms should stay in the FHC it was orderd from and cant be moved elsewhere. Something like that. So the sticker was added to all new films coming in 2000. The sticker is just saying if you take it, destroy it, sell it, or anything else without the approval of the LDS Genealogy Society's APPPROVAL than you can be fined or even accused of criminal actions. Beause in reality coping microfilm isn't the $5 or $6 you pay it much more. My estimation is about $15 to copy one microfilm and the church pays at the willing of their expense and if people take the church is just wasting their. They want anyone being able to work on their genealogy. I hope this helps. -Daniel A. Mendez del Camino :)