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