Some of my two cents. the cards sound like the same idea used by the national archives in Washington, D.C. There the cards ARE used both for zerox and microfilm and it works the same way Beth described. As for Reading, PA, I live about 3 hours or so from there, maybe less. I was doing research on the Web once and found, perhaps through Angela, as that is where I seem to find all the good stuff from, that there is a plantation type estate near the Reading PA area that some Loy's owned way back. The article stated that the house was an eight story mansion and that Goerge Washington had once visited and slept there. the Loy's lost ownership due to bad debt, but had been in the coal mining business there. I think it may have been a Michael Loy that owned it. Anyway, the article also stated that the mansion had been turned into a B&B inn. But my family made a point to look it up last year on the way home from a school trip to Scranton, PA. It is also near Lebanon, PA home of the famous bologna. We were somewhat familiar with Lebanon and Scranton areas and Wilkes Barre, PA as our sons have had high school marching band competitions in these towns for the past 6 - 7 years. Anyway, we found the plantation. It was not a eight story mansion but a 3 story mansion. I came home to look up the article in my notes thinking I had mistaken reading the number. But the eight was spelled out. It is possible that whoever wrote the article was third party to the owners at the time and misread the number from another source. Anyway, this plantation had many buildings around it and was run down a little bit and is now privately owned. A clerk at a nearby store said the place was famous for the story of George Washington having stayed there and also people stopped by to look at the outhouse, which did look like an extravagant structure, more liken to our modern gazebos, but narrower and closed in. Anyway, some of the research I have been doing has caused me to ponder going to Reading or Harrisburg, PA, which is even closer to me, to find my missing links. I also hope to get over to Lancaster area just below Reading and also closer to me, to find Muddy Creek Church descendents and perhaps the site of the church and church records myself as my roots definitely seem to point back to that church. It is either southeast of Lancaster or near Cocalico Township, which we hear alot about at the band competitions in Lebanon, especially. I believe Cocalico is also up near Reading. And if you ever plan to make a trip to Reading, then you must see Daniel Boone's homestead, just southeast of there and of course Valley Forge in the northwestern vicinity to Reading. Good Luck. Perhaps we can tie some strings together after your trip. I do know and research alot of the Loy's in the Virginia area and have traced my exact line back to 1810 there. But the history I have found in a geneological library in Leesburg, VA that I have frequented alot, and also in the history books for geneology in Frederick Historical Society, state that the Loy's were present in Frederick, MD and in the areas of PA mentioned above as early as 1732- 1733. I have names further back than my exact line, but have not yet connected my line to them exactly.