take it to a library and use their equipment

hi everyone l would like again to say thank you for your help over the above l cannot believe the response l am getting including a patent & trademark librarian from new haven CT 'a very nice girl' who has sent me 4 options and more help if needed. also to thank Norm.V have not tried yours yet but if all else fails !!!! thanks Regards Margaret from England ......................................................... >

I GOT MY MICROFICHE READER OFF OF EBAY AND PAID AROUND $50. INCLUDING SHIPPING. YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK IT OUT. IT ISN'T TOO BIG AND I CAN EASLY CARRY IT FROM ROOM TO ROOM. GO TO www.ebay.com. THE SCROLL DOWN TO EVERYTHING ELSE THEN SELECT GENEALOGY. TYPE IN MICROFICHE. IT SHOULD SHOW WHAT IS AVAILABLE. ----- Original Message ----- From: "MaryLynn McCloskey" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 7:56 AM Subject: [CTNEWHAV] Help usning microfilm/fiche > I'm at a point in my research where I need to use > microfiche records, but have never used them before. > I've been looking at used microfiche readers to use at > home, but most of them are huge and pretty expensive. > I was wondering about using overhead projectors or > filmstrip projectors. I've seen people selling them > for this use, but am not sure, since I have no > experience with the films. > Does anyone have some advice? > > MaryLynn > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <[email protected]>. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Do most of you know about the CT look up list...someone to get it for you. The Ct Society of Genealogy has a list of people willing to get the certificates you need as well. They have at least one person in every town. I use to do it for Milford. > That's what I had to do get get my ancestor's will from the Canaan records. > Got nowhere with the Clerk with an Attitude! All that travel time and $$!! > > Motels, gas, meals, and I could have gotten it for $3.25 right here at home > > in PA.

I sent one over a year ago and haven't had a response yet.

1. There are a few microfiche viewers posted on Ebay. 2. Check with your local bank branch, preferably where you know the manager. Most banks had fiche viewers before computers came in. I got mine that way, practicaly new and at no cost. 3. A few years ago I picked up a half dozen fiche viewers at a government surplus sale. 4. Libraries are also a possibility for surplus, although they will usually be very well used and abused. 5.Make sure if you find anything that you are looking at the same thing. Most microfiche viewers cannot be used with microfilm or the other way around. Some of the really expensive ones take both. Also the ones that print will be very expensive. Bill

In a message dated 1/18/02 10:15:22 PM Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Any advice on the best way to start into the world of LDS microfilms? Can you > call your local center and tell them what you want or do you have to go in? > Can I use the LDS website to find the rolls that I would be interested in? > Any advice for a newbie would be appreciated! :) > > Grace, go to www.familysearch.org and click on Library to find the nearest > library center near you. Then go to "Record Collections" and then US or > whatever. You can search the Mormon's huge book, record, and manuscript > collections by georgraphic area OR by surname. You pick out the films you > want and take those numbers to your nearest FHC Library. They will call you > when they come in. (You can't take them out of the library.) You have about > 6 weeks to look at them before they go back to SLC. HINT: If you see > "another copy", always order that as that means the first one wasn't too > good. Or, if you see it on microFICHE, that may be cheaper at .15 a page > vs. $3.25 a film AND those fiches STAY in that center. Be sure to check > your local center's permanent fiche collection (as well as their generally > regionalized film collections) so you don't order something that is already > in their collection. The nice thing about using these films is that you are > using copies of original records instead of someone's undocumented work >

You can search for films on the web site. You must go there and file out order forms. I think it is $3.oo each, Thye will call you when they come in. The Woodbridge site already has some films there. kathi

Perhaps things have changed. When I would go to New Haven vital records I would need to show them my Connecticut Genealogy Society card. Unfortunately my new job does not allow me to take a Wed. AM off anymore. Kathi

I'm at a point in my research where I need to use microfiche records, but have never used them before. I've been looking at used microfiche readers to use at home, but most of them are huge and pretty expensive. I was wondering about using overhead projectors or filmstrip projectors. I've seen people selling them for this use, but am not sure, since I have no experience with the films. Does anyone have some advice? MaryLynn __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/

Is it just me or does this example seem unlawful or just offensive? These records belong to us and our children. They chronicle OUR lives. They don't belong to the clerks. They are merely keepers of records the government has accumulated. If you ask me, genealogists should need permission from the family to access our records, not the other way around. What happened to serving the public? I'm sitting here in PA and it's easier to find my ancestors in England than it is in CT. England has put TONS of their records on line, and when I send for a certificate- birth, marriage or death, it arrives in 2 weeks flat. No picture ID needed. No genealogy society membership necessary. MaryLynn Brenda Andrews wrote: You are correct with trying to get a copy from CT. my husband was born inDerby and he passed away two years ago. My sister in-law drove to Derby toget a copy of her brothers birth certificate for me. They would not giveher one, I had to send a copy of his death certificate with my request forhis birth certificate and then they would only give me the business cardsize that had no vital information. They informed me that if I wanted afull size copy of this birth I needed to contact a recognized CT.genealogist. I would like to know who is getting paid!!!Brenda----- Original Message -----From: "Pamela Baldini" To: Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 11:13 PMSubject: [CTNEWHAV] CT town clerks> I am very new at this list business=please accept my apology in advance ifa> number of my response shows up, or not in the right format.>> CT town clerks think of their records as their personal private property.> Their "babies". The law states you have to be a dues paying member of a> recognized genealogy society. Somewhere on the CT site is the specificrule> and a list of recognized societies. Pay your annual dues from seven to> thirty dollars, then you can visit any town in CT and look through their> records. And they will still question you.>> My favorite is to write a letter asking for a certified copy of my> grandparents death/birth certificate enclose five dollars and a SASE.State> your relationship to the deceased and the date of occurance. This has not> failed me yet.>> This has worked in Northern CT towns, but I am heading toward New Haven> county and frankly you are not giving me a warm fuzzy feeling about my> research.>> Ancestry.com has the CT vital death records on their member web site for> deaths after 1946. The State Library has the headstone collection forolder> deaths then you can match it up with obituaries.>> Hopefully, I am making sense. I am not a night person.>> pam baldini>> _________________________________________________________________> Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail.> http://www.hotmail.com>>> ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ====> Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email> at .>>> ==============================> To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records,go to:> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237>>==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ====To post messages to the New Haven County, CT discussion list, send them [email protected]==============================To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to:http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/

I am very new at this list business=please accept my apology in advance if a number of my response shows up, or not in the right format. CT town clerks think of their records as their personal private property. Their "babies". The law states you have to be a dues paying member of a recognized genealogy society. Somewhere on the CT site is the specific rule and a list of recognized societies. Pay your annual dues from seven to thirty dollars, then you can visit any town in CT and look through their records. And they will still question you. My favorite is to write a letter asking for a certified copy of my grandparents death/birth certificate enclose five dollars and a SASE. State your relationship to the deceased and the date of occurance. This has not failed me yet. This has worked in Northern CT towns, but I am heading toward New Haven county and frankly you are not giving me a warm fuzzy feeling about my research. Ancestry.com has the CT vital death records on their member web site for deaths after 1946. The State Library has the headstone collection for older deaths then you can match it up with obituaries. Hopefully, I am making sense. I am not a night person. pam baldini _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

You are correct with trying to get a copy from CT. my husband was born in Derby and he passed away two years ago. My sister in-law drove to Derby to get a copy of her brothers birth certificate for me. They would not give her one, I had to send a copy of his death certificate with my request for his birth certificate and then they would only give me the business card size that had no vital information. They informed me that if I wanted a full size copy of this birth I needed to contact a recognized CT. genealogist. I would like to know who is getting paid!!! Brenda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pamela Baldini" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 11:13 PM Subject: [CTNEWHAV] CT town clerks > I am very new at this list business=please accept my apology in advance if a > number of my response shows up, or not in the right format. > > CT town clerks think of their records as their personal private property. > Their "babies". The law states you have to be a dues paying member of a > recognized genealogy society. Somewhere on the CT site is the specific rule > and a list of recognized societies. Pay your annual dues from seven to > thirty dollars, then you can visit any town in CT and look through their > records. And they will still question you. > > My favorite is to write a letter asking for a certified copy of my > grandparents death/birth certificate enclose five dollars and a SASE. State > your relationship to the deceased and the date of occurance. This has not > failed me yet. > > This has worked in Northern CT towns, but I am heading toward New Haven > county and frankly you are not giving me a warm fuzzy feeling about my > research. > > Ancestry.com has the CT vital death records on their member web site for > deaths after 1946. The State Library has the headstone collection for older > deaths then you can match it up with obituaries. > > Hopefully, I am making sense. I am not a night person. > > pam baldini > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <[email protected]>. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Take the plunge and go in. The volunteers are always nice and usually other researchers willing to offer advice too. Ordering microfilms only costs about $3.50 (ask at your center) so if you make a mistake it's not the end of the world. Maybe you should ask the list to help recommend a microfilm number based on something you have picked out to search for. The only problem I have is that I want to order more than I can look at in a month. I have found church records to be helpful to me but it really depends on what you are looking for. Good Luck, Ginny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grace Coffman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [CTNEWHAV] Mormon records > > This still intimidates me... I havent ordered microfilms yet -- its kinda a > hard thing to plunge into, I have found (maybe Im just a child of the > internet and dont want to have to do it the old fashioned way LOL) Any > advice on the best way to start into the world of LDS microfilms? Can you > call your local center and tell them what you want or do you have to go in? > Can I use the LDS website to find the rolls that I would be interested in? > Any advice for a newbie would be appreciated! :) > > -Grace > > > > In a message dated 1/18/02 4:21:23 PM Mountain Standard Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > > > > . Perhaps you could find the info from copies of the records made by > the > > > Morman Church. > > > > That's what I had to do get get my ancestor's will from the Canaan > records. > > Got nowhere with the Clerk with an Attitude! All that travel time and > $$!! > > Motels, gas, meals, and I could have gotten it for $3.25 right here at > home > > in PA. Marilyn > > > > > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > > at <[email protected]>. > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <[email protected]>. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

It is best to go into LDS. Our local one has a big notebook of all the films they have right in the building that don't even have to be ordered.(They are on "Permanent Loan"). To put in an order for a film, you have to pay when you order. When it comes in they call you, and it's usually there for a month before having to go back. However they have been know to take an order(when you supply the film number and the fee) from someone who lives a considerable distance away. Another benefit of going to the Center is that while you're there, you can also look at the film someone else may have ordered and is in the drawer. Using the web site www.familysearch.org, go to the library(on the right side of the screen) and look up what you are interested in. The film number is supplied, so you can then contact the local LDS center by mail or it will just take a minute when you are driving by.

In a message dated 1/18/02 9:46:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > What? I just sent for my great grandfather's BC in > North Haven. He's been dead since the early 60s and > was born in 1896. I shouldn't expect to receive it? > Geez, Cuyahoga County in Ohio has an online database > of marriage records and I brought up my parents > marriage from 1960 right on the internet! > You should have a much better chance of success for two reasons - first, you are looking for a death cert. rather than a birth and second, North Haven should be much more helpful than New Haven. New Haven is the worst - they are only open one morning per week, so everyone is there doing research during those three hours. On top of that, they only have one small table which is usually covered with #$%#$. Bill Coley Orange, CT

In a message dated 1/18/02 4:21:23 PM Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > . Perhaps you could find the info from copies of the records made by the > Morman Church. That's what I had to do get get my ancestor's will from the Canaan records. Got nowhere with the Clerk with an Attitude! All that travel time and $$!! Motels, gas, meals, and I could have gotten it for $3.25 right here at home in PA. Marilyn

Yes, you can find the microfilms that you're interested in online, but then you would have to go to your local Family History Center to order the film. To find the film that you're interested in go to. http://www.familysearch.org Then click on the Family Library and go the Library Catalog and do your search. You can search for locality, surname or author Harry Walden, Georgetown, TX http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctmiddle/midlsxco.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hmwalden [email protected] http://www.rootsweb.com/~txwcgs/wcgs.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grace Coffman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [CTNEWHAV] Mormon records > > This still intimidates me... I havent ordered microfilms yet -- its kinda a > hard thing to plunge into, I have found (maybe Im just a child of the > internet and dont want to have to do it the old fashioned way LOL) Any > advice on the best way to start into the world of LDS microfilms? Can you > call your local center and tell them what you want or do you have to go in? > Can I use the LDS website to find the rolls that I would be interested in? > Any advice for a newbie would be appreciated! :) > > -Grace > > > > In a message dated 1/18/02 4:21:23 PM Mountain Standard Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > > > > . Perhaps you could find the info from copies of the records made by > the > > > Morman Church. > > > > That's what I had to do get get my ancestor's will from the Canaan > records. > > Got nowhere with the Clerk with an Attitude! All that travel time and > $$!! > > Motels, gas, meals, and I could have gotten it for $3.25 right here at > home > > in PA. Marilyn > > > > > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > > at <[email protected]>. > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <[email protected]>. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

This still intimidates me... I havent ordered microfilms yet -- its kinda a hard thing to plunge into, I have found (maybe Im just a child of the internet and dont want to have to do it the old fashioned way LOL) Any advice on the best way to start into the world of LDS microfilms? Can you call your local center and tell them what you want or do you have to go in? Can I use the LDS website to find the rolls that I would be interested in? Any advice for a newbie would be appreciated! :) -Grace > In a message dated 1/18/02 4:21:23 PM Mountain Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > . Perhaps you could find the info from copies of the records made by the > > Morman Church. > > That's what I had to do get get my ancestor's will from the Canaan records. > Got nowhere with the Clerk with an Attitude! All that travel time and $$!! > Motels, gas, meals, and I could have gotten it for $3.25 right here at home > in PA. Marilyn > > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <[email protected]>. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

How about the Historical Society? Anyone had luck with them? Just wondered because I sent off a letter four months ago (stamped envelope included) and haven't had a reply. ----- Original Message ----- From: elizabeth godfrey <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 8:08 AM Subject: Re: [CTNEWHAV] Gah! Can anyone help with a birth record? > I know your frustration. I had the same problem. Went to the Woodbridge, > Conn Town Clerk for information on my great grandparents. She said because > I was not a certified genealogest I could not have the info. Conn. has some > kind of crazy law. Perhaps you could find the info from copies of the > records made by the Morman Church. They went to every town and city (years > ago) and photocopied all the records. If no luck, send a letter to the Town > Clerk, certified, and cite the "Right to Know Law" in Conn. You will have > to go on line under Conn., then get the RSA#. Also, perhaps send an e-mail > to the New England Gen. Society, in Boston, and ask where and how you can > get these records. I have to leave right now for a Dr.s apt. But if you > have no luck, I just copied the New Eng. Gen. & Hist. Society web site. I > can give it to you if you can't get yoiur info. > Elizabeth Rousseau Godfrey > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Grace Coffman" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 6:05 PM > Subject: [CTNEWHAV] Gah! Can anyone help with a birth record? > > > > For some reason the Vital Records town clerk keeps sending my request to > > obtain a birth record back to me saying "We do not do Genealogical > research" > > Well I didnt *ask* them to do research, I asked them to mail me the BC! > > Bleck.. so now I dont know what to do - this is the second time they sent > it > > back to me- Im in Nebraska so can't go do it myself... can anyone help me > > with this? :( > > > > Ive ordered marriage and death certs from the town clerk with no problem, > > this is just too weird. Its over the 100 year limit so anyone should be > able > > to obtain these! > > > > Looking for: Birth record for: Laurence (Lawrence) Byington born 1882, > > father is Edwin Minor Byington and mother is Harriet I. Dudley. If anyone > > has any suggesstions or can help a poor researcher out, I'd certainly > > appreciate it! > > > > -Grace > > > > > > > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > > To post messages to the New Haven County, CT discussion list, send them to > > [email protected] > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email > at <[email protected]>. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >