Susan, You need to take the film number in and ask for an order form. They give you a little card with pink carbon on top. You put the order number in the top box. If you have 6 digits instead of 7 you put a zero in front. I don't think that will happen with the census films. Then you pay about $3.50 for the film. They will order it for you. You can't order it online. If they, for some reason, do not know how this works (they are all volunteers) ask to speak to the center's director. That person should know about ordering films. That is their job. When the film comes in you should have it for about 4-6 weeks. You can renew it for slightly less than you paid to order the film. If you renew it twice it becomes a permanent loan and will stay in the center. When I am transcribing, I often just pay to make the film permanent so it won't go back. But that depends on whether you want to do just the one townland or a few. I will gladly send anyone a sample spreadsheet page to work with. When I started going to my local FHC I could see the people were volunteers and didn't know that much, so I determined to figure out how to work the system. Now the center I use is very professionally run, but they all vary. Good luck! Christina P.S. If you need the film number again I will look it up. On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:06:18 -0500 (EST), [email protected] wrote: | I went to the Morman genealogy room and asked about the film for | Ballymahon area (the other film) and I really didn't get any help | there. Is there a way that I could order it by mail from Salt | Lake City?? | | Please let me know as I will transcribe.