Can someone tell me how to access the online family files on the LancasterHistory.org website? Thanks, Nancy ----- Original Message ----- From: <millergen@comcast.net> To: <palancas@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] Research in Lancaster, PA > > > I'm just getting caught up on emails. Thought i'd throw my 2 cents in > here. > > I used to love going to the archives at Lancaster courthouse. Spent > hundreds of hours doing research there. To look at the actual registers, > turn the pages, even held a 300 year old will in my own hands. Needed a > dose of allergy meds before and after from the dust! Last visit last > summer, they were scanning everything onto microfilm to go over Lancaster > Co. Historical Society (LCHS). They had 3 microfilm readers there at the > archives, but none were working. While I absolutely understand they are > doing this to preserve everything, it is a change for me. So you would be > best to go over to LCHS and skip the courthouse archives. If you do go to > the Courthouse, it is best to park in the parking garage on the first > block of King St./S. Duke St. > > While you're at LCHS, definitely check out the Family Files. These hold > information other people doing research have contributed. Be sure to make > photocopies for yourself, don't take the originals in the file. I've found > photocopies of marriage records, newspaper articles, photos, as well as > research. I've also left copies of my own research in these files with my > name and email on the back. Al so at the desk inside, there is an index > card file of other people researching surnames from the area with contact > information. Leave plenty of time, no matter how many hours there, it is > never enough! > Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society (LMHS) has a huge index card file > of family information that members have contributed. Some have references, > some don't. They have Family FIles, also. > > Both have great resources, reference material, and helpful staff. LCHS has > evening hours Tues. and Thurs.; LMHS does not. > > Your best bet at lodging is east of Lancaster along near Rt 30 in the > vicinity of LMHS. Beware though, tourist season is starting! > > > Tina > > > Tina > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PALANCAS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message