Hello, I have had my first experience using microfilm! My excitement at finding the marriage record of my great great grandparents in Wissembourg is indescribable (although written in French and I can't read it!). However, I printed a copy, and the quality is really dark and bad. Is there a trick to getting clearer copies? Is it possible to photograph the image somehow? I ran the copy through my scanner and it is a bit better, but still pretty bad. I am an amateur, and am sure that some of you have some great experience and advice that you may be able to share. Thank you! Barbara Eidel

Barbara and listers I have had a lot of success photographing the images using my digital camera. I am actually in the process of photographing 2 entire rolls of microfilm - I am hoping to put them up on the web someday - and they are much easier to read than the printed copies. I too was excited to find the birth record for my great great grandfather in Hoh Frankenheim - and to find out that he was one of triplets! I must add a disclaimer here though. I am a photographer by trade and have a very nice SLR digital camera and I used a tripod. But I do know that others have tried this and gotten good results with a consumer digital camera - but a tripod makes the difference I think... Carrie River Falls, WI On Feb 16, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Barbara Eidel wrote: > Hello, > I have had my first experience using microfilm! My excitement at > finding > the marriage record of my great great grandparents in Wissembourg is > indescribable (although written in French and I can't read it!). > However, I > printed a copy, and the quality is really dark and bad. Is there a > trick to > getting clearer copies? Is it possible to photograph the image > somehow? I > ran the copy through my scanner and it is a bit better, but still > pretty > bad. > > I am an amateur, and am sure that some of you have some great > experience and > advice that you may be able to share. > Thank you! > Barbara Eidel >

some machines have a setting that you can lighten the copies to make them clearer. Check it out. Nancy ------- I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. --Daniel Boone On Feb 16, 2008, at 7:57 PM, Barbara Eidel wrote: > Hello, > I have had my first experience using microfilm! My excitement at > finding > the marriage record of my great great grandparents in Wissembourg is > indescribable (although written in French and I can't read it!). > However, I > printed a copy, and the quality is really dark and bad. Is there a > trick to > getting clearer copies? Is it possible to photograph the image > somehow? I > ran the copy through my scanner and it is a bit better, but still > pretty > bad. > > I am an amateur, and am sure that some of you have some great > experience and > advice that you may be able to share. > Thank you! > Barbara Eidel > > -- > Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALSACE- > LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message