Hi Kathleen, If you have printed information off a website, such as ancestry.com, a film will not give you much more. There is a lot of information that you can print from websites without ordering microfilm.I was able to print off the ship's manifest showing my husband's great grandfather and his family. You have to order the films when you are ready to start searching in Germany. Tonia On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Kathleen March < Kathleen_March@umit.maine.edu> wrote: > I hope not to impose too much on the good will of the group by asking yet > another simple question: > > I can locate ancestors and the films of various sorts, but it is not clear > to me whether the films offer more information than what I already have. > eg, I have the following, for a gguncle, whom I have also found as a major > in the Civil War (this is > one of 3 young children who arrived in 1854 with their parents): > > Name: Fred March > Residence: Rochester, Monroe, New York > Birth date: 1851 > Birth place: Germany > Relationship to head-of-household: Other > Spouse name: > Spouse birth place: > Father name: > Father birth place: Germany > Mother name: > Mother birth place: Germany > Race or color (expanded): White > Ethnicity: American > Gender: Male > Marital status: Single > Age: 29 years > Occupation: Bar Tender > NARA film number: T9-0863 > Page: 159 > Page letter: A > Entry number: 14 > Film number: 1254863 > Collection: 1880 United States Census > > > > Would it do any good to order a film? The same question goes for > requesting the films for ship passenger lists. If I have already found the > image online, does the film add anything to it? > > > > > Kathleen March > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BADEN-WURTTEMBERG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >