Good afternoon, Most of us probably obtain our research microfilm on loan from the LDS library in Salt Lake City. A valuable alternative for those who wanted to purchase films has been ProQuest, the parent company of the HeritageQuest online digital library. Now ProQuest announces it's selling its microfilm business. Not surprisingly, everything's going digital. (Aren't you glad you're computer-literate and online?) From Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/10/proques t_is_sel.html (The link above will line-wrap, and you'll need to copy/paste both lines and then reassemble them into one unbroken link in your browser to access the article.) My microfilm reader is currently in storage in my son's basement. Perhaps in a couple/few years its value will soar as an obsolete technological device still in good working order. :-) Chris