I read with interest the posts regarding the Jackson county courthouse books/records and I saw a post regarding the microfilming of these records and a recommendation by someone that microfilming should be considered over "digitizing". Many of the oldest and perhaps most important records were microfilmed years ago by the LDS folks, so thank goodness there is already a copy of them. Here's a list of those I found on the LDS website: 1) Birth records, 1867-1908 (filmed in 1963) 2) Death records, 1867-1908 (filmed in 1963) 3) Marriage records, 1816-1913 (filmed in 1963) 4) Registration and corrections of births, Jackson County (filmed in 1963) 5) Deeds, 1816-1877 (filmed in 1963) 6) Court records, 1816-1856; index, 1816-1904 Court of Common Pleas (Jackson County) - (filmed in 1981 by the OHS) 7) Naturalization records, 1865-1906 (filmed in 1963) 8) Wills, 1819-1885 (filmed in 1963) 9) Tax duplicates, 1819-1838 (filmed in 1967-68) There were a few other records filmed as well, but these are the primary ones. Just my humble opinion, but digitizing is the way everyone is going now to preserve records. Microfilming will soon be a rarity when it comes to record preservation. For starters, consider how long it takes to look through a roll of microfilm as opposed to plugging your surname into a CD or DVD search box on your home computer, assuming the records were indexed properly. Add the "hassle" of going to a library just to get access to a microfilm reader, and well, you catch my drift. Anthony Anthony Coyan