In a message dated 3/23/2005 8:01:05 AM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Apparently the > originals are also because many of the transcriptions are ????? The fixative on the 1910 Federal Census was incorrectly applied. This caused the image to deteriorate in many cases. Unfortunately, it was believed that microfilm would last at least 500 years, so the original paper documents were destroyed. Margaret Ernest