Karen, I had 4 wonderful days at the Family History Library in SLC last summer; 40 days wouldn't have been enough. But I'm thrilled I had even 4 days. It was absolutely wonderful!!! A few of suggestions I have for you are: 1. Look up as many microfilm numbers, book call numbers etc. on the Familysearch site BEFORE you go to the library. You won't want to waste one minute of time doing that if you don't have to. I had everything I wanted to research organized by Country, State or County. After awhile my brain turned a little mushy and it was nice to have my list to keep myself on track. I started at 7:30 or 8:00 in the morning and had to drag myself out at 6:00 each night. (I would have stayed later, but I thought I should at least have dinner with my husband) I had a hard time even taking a lunch break or getting a drink of water; I kept wanting to look at one more book or one more microfilm. It was like being a kid in a candy store. 2. I chose to spend the first day and a half looking through the book section before I looked at any microfilms. The books are not circulated through the LDS Family History Centers like the films are, so I thought I'd better use the opportunity to look at them. I found, in the first book I looked at, a picture of my GG Grandfather's schoolhouse in Kansas (ca. 1889) and a listing of the students -- his name included! I was pretty excited about that. I found many other treasures too, but I did get frustrated at times when I thought a book should mention my family, but it didn't. 3. If you have any research from England be sure to take advantage of the birth, marriage, death indexes the library has. I didn't allow myself as much time there as I would have liked. 4. I think next time I go, I will get one of those suitcases on wheels to haul all my information around. This is all I can think of right now. Have fun! Lynn Mack Oregon ----- Original Message ----- From: Pickett <kpickett@jc.net> To: <PAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 11:55 AM Subject: [PAFRANKL] Research Trip > I finally get to go to the Mormon library in Salt Lake City! If the snow doesn't get our > flight in February we will go then for a week of research. > > Anyone have any tips for me so I can prepare myself for researching as best as possible > before getting there? > > I am going online at the LDS site and printing off the info on microfilms that I want to > look at-- at least everything I can think of. > > Any other bits of advice for researching in the LDS library? > > Thanks for your help, > > Karen > >