That item from Brown Co., IL lady was not good. I do know of one county out near the Mississippi River here in Illinois that started burning all the old deed books till someone caught them. NO room and didn't think they were ever needed again. That is the last thing that should be tossed as it pertains to land ownership. The LDS didn't do the microfilm work on the ships records, but a tidbit from my last trip to DC. I was trying to find out about my great great grandmother who had supposedly died on the boat in 1850. I had found the boat record but no date of death or anything. I then read that it should be at the end of the listing for the boat so I went back this trip and pulled the record and went to the end. Again no recordings. While fiddling with the film I noticed some writing off the to far side, but not readable on the screen. Well, the short of the story was that the film is wider than the reader and by manipulation I was able to pull the film over further and there in the far right hand column was the death dates of all who had died at sea on that boat. Without being told it should be there, but more importantly by accident I find that we need to be more diligent in our microfilm reading as we might be missing something real important. The mystery was solved. She did die at sea and I have the date and proof. Anyway just a word that might interest someone else. Jerilyn