A helpful hint that was passed on to me a few years ago is that digital cameras can make excellent copies of microfilm, microfiche, and other images. Use the Macro setting on the camera to focus in on the screen details and turn off the flash. In many cases, the record custodian would rather you use a camera to record images than a photocopy machine or scanner. The photocopy machine and scanner need to pass a powerful light over the image which can damage the original. In addition, especially for bound documents, clumsy attempts to "flatten" the image to improve reproduction quality can damage the binding. Also, once you have the image saved digitally, you can adjust the image's contrast, brightness, coloring, size, and other factors that can make the image easier to read. This process can sometimes also bring out details that you didn't originally see in the image. Bill Sheleski >From POLAND-ROOTS Digest, Vol 5, Issue 309 Message: 1 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:07:40 -0500 From: Joan <[email protected]> Subject: [POLAND] Mieszkowo To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I do not have a copy of the marriage record as yet, as the machine that makes copies at my FHC is under repair till the new year, and so I transcribed it as best as I could for now. I believe it may in fact be Mieszkowo, and will follow up with this subject in the new year. Thank you for everyone's help. Joan