These helpful instructions were posted to another email list. Thought they might be of use to some of you looking for references AND for folks not aware of this information available on the LDS site. ======================================================================= Start at the LDS family search page http://www.familysearch.org/ On the right it has a column titled "Family History Library System" with a picture of a building. That column has four links. Click on the one that says "Search the Family History Library Catalog for records and resources." The next page will have a column of blue buttons on the right. Click the one on the top of the column that says "Place Search." The next page will have two blanks. Say, for example, you want information on ancestors that lived in Johnson Co, IN. For Place, you would put Johnson. For Part Of, you would put Indiana. Don't abbreviate the state name. The next screen will contain the matching places. There may be several matches, depending on where you're looking for. In these matches, the first word refers to the state you input; the second word, the county. The desired match for the example here would be the one "Indiana, Johnson." Click on "Indiana, Johnson." It will pull up the list of microfilm(s) that the LDS has on that area. Hope this is clear. Heather