Rita, Ah ha! The original! I just got this Monday AM -- even tho it's dated Saturday. ??? I have had the same experience as this person. I understood this was a WPA project. No? Anyway, the microfilm of the marriage data is available thru the LDS FHC. I don't know if it might be possible to get the microfilm from WSHS Library & sent to her local library, but then again, maybe? I *know* she can order thru her local FHC, for a cost of only $3.50 per film. Since it takes about 3 weeks to come in, she should probably order now to have it available for her Spring break. She can look up the film numbers at: http://www.familysearch.org/Search/searchcatalog.asp Marsha (Temp) Iron Co. zorblitz wrote: > > Hello All, > > I received this letter yesterday, and would really like some input on > the many pertainent and complicated questions asked here, as I am no > expert. I believe that this is of general interest and use to most on > this list and I would like to give the best reply possible, because we > all know that " a motivated volunteer is a terrible thing to waste". > Thank you so much! Rita - Oconto CC > Hi! > > I was excited to see that someone else looked at those crazy pre-1907 > marriage fiche too! > > This may sound like a stupid question and I suppose that I could hunt > down the right "older" person at the Historical Society, but the > information on the fiche was generated by a computer in the 1980s???. > Where is that data now? Why would someone have to retype that in. I > kind of figure it has to be on some old mainframe on the UW Madison > campus and has not been touched in years, but is on a big tape at the > Historical Society that they would have to load on some machine. The > computer people should then be able to export it to a text file that > could be read by a word processor and loaded to the various webs. > What do you know about this? > > Now, I personally have a problem with the information on the fiche AND > since you are "in charge" of Oconto Co. maybe you could help me with > one of my crazy ideas! It appears that some of my relatives are not > listed in the index, but when I go to the actual rolls of film, they > are there and the film is quite readable. What I would like to > o ---- and I'm not too sure how fast I could do it -- or where to > start, would be to create a database of the information found on the > records from the 2 rolls of Oconto Co. Marriage Licenses (pre-1907). > > 1. Do you have copies of the rolls that UW GB has that I could > borrow? > 2. If not, do you know who does? > 3. Are copies available for sale? > 4. Do you know who might have a film reader that I might > borrow/rent during spring break? (March 17-25) > > Getting the film to Oshkosh is my first priority. I would like to > work starting in March, preferably at home, but I could always take my > laptop computer with me to the public library or create paper forms > (ugh). > > I found all sorts of information on the actual licenses that helped me > trace spouses and other information on women's married and maiden > names. If it were in a database, it could be sorted by church, > minister, dates, birthplaces, as well as searched by names..... > parents, bridesmaids, etc. > > So, what do you think? Can you help???? > > Kathy