When I used the Kingwood Library microfilm reader printer this summer to look at the Preston County Journal microfilms the reader printer was in very bad repair and was scratching the microfilm as it moved along through to reader printer scraping off part of the print. I could see checking that there was a lot of scraping on the film already so I thought this must have been happening for a while. I stopped working with the film and took it back to the newspaper office. The nice people there told me the university in Morgantown creates their microfilm and has a copy, and that the Terra Alta Public Library also has the film and a good new reader printer. Don't you all be in there hogging up the machine when I come back!!!! :) Art --- [email protected] wrote: > Lee----I have done some research in Kingwood where I > grew up so perhaps I > can give you some information that will be helpful. > The County Clerk's office > is where you go to look for births, deaths and > marriages, not in that order. > If I remember correctly the fee for a certificate > was either $3 or $5. The > wills are there also but I'm not sure about deeds. > > The Preston County Journal office, almost across the > street from the Court > House, has microfilms of their newspapers. You may > borrow them to take to the > Library to use the reader (library is just in the > next block so it is in > comfortable walking distance. They ask that you > leave your driver's license as > security when you borrow the microfilms. It seems > to me that I paid a small > fee to make copies of certain articles in the > Journal but it wasn't more than > 10 cents. Very reasonable and fun skimming through > the old papers. I found > several missing ancestors that way. > > Enjoy your visit to Kingwood---it should be getting > pretty up there with the > leaves starting to change. > > Eleanor G. > > > ==== WVPRESTO Mailing List ==== > Hoaxes and Urban Legends on the Internet > http://www.snopes.com/ > <A HREF="http://www.snopes.com/">Snopes.com</a> > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about > your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the > last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com