Hello Audra and Lincoln County researchers.... Several groups are involved with microfilming old local (i.e. county, municipal, township, etc.) records in Kansas... chief among them the LDS (Mormon) Church and the Kansas State Historical Society. Some local agenices have filmed their own records. KSHS has Kansas local records listed online that are available for interlibrary loan at: http://www.kshs.org/archives/lrfilm.htm At the KSGenWeb County Coordinators' Annual Meeting in Topeka last Saturday a librarian at the Society told the group that microfilming is continuting across the state. It's a slow process. Whether records are microfilmed or not and given to the KSHS is up to the local government too. We were also told that the online listing is not complete. There are new microfilmed records not yet listed online. You could write to the Society and ask if records for a county/city have been added recently. The online reference question form is found at: http://www.kshs.org/archives/lrfilm.htm I believe the LDS Church and the Kansas State Historical Society have been working together on the microfilming of Kansas local records but I know little about the LDS side of this. If someone else on the list knows more about the LDS filming of local records I'd be interested in knowing about it. In reference to Lincoln County..... I know of no locally filmed records for Lincoln County at the State Historical Society. Fortunately we have access to many, many local records through the efforts of Tracee Hamilton! Check out the Lookups page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/lookups.html Tracee has access to this information and will supply upon request. Don't foget to be as clear and concise as you can with what you want! Don't write her and say.... "Give me all the Smith vitals in Lincoln County." Hope this helps. Bill Bill & Diana Sowers -- bsowers@kscable.com Lincoln Co KSGenWeb: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html Barton Co KSGenWeb: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/barton/index.html Our Family pages: http://home.kscable.com/sowers/index.html Info on us: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/info.htm "A long life is not good enough... but a good life is long enough." ---Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis---