This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WUB.2ACI/1299.1 Message Board Post: Except for the most recent 2 years, all of the newspaper collection is on microfilm, and the microfilm reader-printers provide good copies. Telephone directories for Long Island's 4 counties are on microfilm to the mid-1970s, and the more recent years are on fiche.