Some priorities for FHL time: 1) Books, manuscripts, maps, etc. that ARE NOT on microfilm. Many books and mansucripts are not filmed due to copyright restrictions; often because the author still owns the copyright and/or sells copies. 2) If you have identified several film SERIES to look at, I'd do those. For example, I was looking for deaths of relatives in Brooklyn NY 1900 & up. I didn't have dates, so I had to do a year by year search of the index, with 1-4 years per roll. This would have been expensive to do by ordering the film, one by one, at $3.50 each. I looked at the films at the Los Angeles Temple FHC when on travel in LA last week. 3) Films that you only expect to find one or two records on, or perhaps, you are just "fishing." Save your $3.50 for ordering rolls you expect to find lots of records on; order for viewing at leisure at your local FHC. An example might be a census for a year/area where lots of your ancestors/collateral relatives lived. Check the Soundex at the FHL, then order the census film when you get back home. P.S to all. The Harold B. Lee Library at BYU has a lot of the material (especially films) that you'd find at the FHL in SLC. They have all the census films, including SOUNDEX. They are also open two Sundays a month and have longer hours M-Sat. than the FHL. The FHC at the Los Angeles Temple is the third largest after the FHL and BYU. Hope this helps. Lynda