Pat, I don't know what state that you live in , but for instance, outside Seattle, Washington, they used to have the National Archives there. You could go out there, stay all day, look at any state, and they had all the census records there on film, no charge. I believe they are still there. You did not have to order the film from elsewhere. They had copies of them all. But remember, that was about 1960, so whether they are still there, I don't know. Hope this helps. Also, RootsWeb.com is great, but sometimes the dates, or info, that you have, will agree with what someone else has. I still get a LAUGH, when someone puts, where date of death is listed, as the person is deceased, when they've been dead for at least 300 years. Oh Well. I see your messages a lot. Sincerely, Jerry D. Warren kbt5579@adelphia.net WARREN, MOLLOY, AND MANY, MANY RELATED SIDE LINES "GROWING DAILEY, FOR OVER 45 YEARS" ----- Original Message ----- From: <ChekWriter@aol.com> To: <MILLS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 8:16 PM Subject: [MILLS] May 1988 Microfiche > To Bill and List: > > Back in the day before we were totally on computers( probably it is a long > time ago, since not all of us began our research around 1977 forward.) > Different methods, too. > > The IGI were on little 5 x 5 microfiche film that you put in a reader. > > Everything else was on microfilm that you had to order/rent either for 2 > weeks, or 6 weeks/permanent loan to my LDS FHL Center, West Los Angeles, Ca. > (Last time I ordered one, was about $3.50 for permanent loan.) > > > As such on and after May 1988, I was in the West Los Angeles, Westwood, Ca. > LDS FHL Center by U C L A, and was only acquainted with certain names. > Richard, William, John, Julia, Phoebe, Phebe, Jonathan, etc. > > So I began looking at the various states around Ohio. Pennsylvania, > Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, North Carolina, for MILLS, HEFFNER, REEDER, STITES, > and those given names that I found on the census record microfilms. > > Each state was on a (IGI) "fiche" as they were called. Alphabetical, by > ancestor. (Name, father/mother, birth/death date, marriage, christening, census, > will, place, LDS designations of B, E, S, Source/Batch/Serial Sheet. > > Also on "fiche" were a listing of books or microfilms of various subject, > and then by region, country, state, county, parish, or whatever the > designation, of films that were available to be read through looking for > ancestors.(Recordak Readers) > > Birth, death, marriage, christenings, baptisms, land records, mortality > schedules by county/state, tax duplicates, family genealogies, county histories, > abstracts of cemetery records, etc. > > My library also had a lot of information on card index files, just like in a > regular library, by books, films, etc. > > Of course, now that we have computers, the information is searched and > sorted by name, spouse, father, mother, region, country, state, year, range. > > So it is a lot faster to find what you are in search. > > pat > cw > > > ==== MILLS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the MILLS list, send the command "unsubscribe" to > MILLS-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or > MILLS-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >