Book entries in the FamilySearch catalog can show as available only in book form. You can contact us to request to have the book digitized and added to the FamilySearch Digital Library.
Steps
- In the Catalog, find the book you need.
- If the book is digitized and online, the Notes section contains a link to it in the FamilySearch Digital Library. Some books are digitized, but we lack permission to put them online, so scroll down to the Film or Digital notes section. If you see an Image Group Number (DGS) for the book, it is digitized, but we lack permission to publish the book online.
- If the book is not digitized, send an email to DigitalLibrary@familysearch.org. Provide this information in the body of the email:
- Request to digitize a book
- Title, author, and call number of the book
- Your name, phone number, and email address
- Send the email.
Keep these things in mind when you make your request:
- We cannot digitize some books due to copyright or other legal restrictions.
- We cannot estimate how long it takes to digitize a book.
- In most instances, we do not contact you when digitization is complete. Check the catalog from time to time to see if the content you need is online.
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