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From: Anne Lamb <>
Subject: Re: Information on LSD
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:48:20 -0800


>Would like the procedures to follow when going to the Salt Lake LSD for
>data. Will they help with look ups? Does it cost any money? If you
provide
>them with the data on the person that you are looking for, will they
perform
>the look up? Thank You Vince

Going to Salt Lake City to research at the Family History Library is a
great holiday for a genealogist or historian because there is so much
there, right at your fingertips. If you get an idea of where another
piece of data might be, you can go right to it, no waits. Other than
your room and food, there are no costs for going there researching,
unless you make copies, and the cost of copies is quite reasonable. Go
for several days, you'll hate having to leave. Since the library is
closed on Sunday, that is a good day to fly into town, get settled, see
the local historical sights etc, then fly out the next Sunday. A whole
week at the library, what bliss! Go with an enthusiastic researching
companion, not a spouse who will always be asking, "How soon will you be
done?"

The concept is that this is self-service researching and you do your own
looking up, but there are lots of volunteers there to help you on the
simpler quests, and very good professionals at the reference desks for
the harder problems. Plus there are classes given on a regular basis on
special topics.

All the CDs and basic microfiche that you will find at your local branch
FHC is there, plus a huge collection of books and copies of almost all
the microfilms on five floors. (There are a few less-used items that you
might need to request from storage, but most of it is there.) Therefore
you should concetrate on the materials you can't see at home (the book
collection) or the films that it takes time and money to order. So spend
as much time at your local branch as you can, using the FHL Catalog to
make lists of the materials you will need to consult there.

If your local branch is hard to get to, you can buy all the microfiche of
the Ireland part of the Catalog (10 fiche- maybe a few more now) and the
99 fiche for England for 15 cents US each. There is a minimum charge of
$2.00 so you may as well order more. You can also order the fiche for
individual states and provinces and other countries. Then just look
around your local area to find a fiche reader. Or buy one secondhand.
There are lots of them available cheap nowadays now that the material
they used to be used for is now on computer.

Get the order blank at the local FHC.

Then prepare yourself with those lists before you go.

Also, unless you want to drive out to look at the countryside, you don't
need a rental car. You'll walk to the library or your hotel will have a
courtesy van to pick you up at the airport and take you to the Library in
the morning and pick you up at night. They have a lunch room with vending
machines, or you can walk across the street to the mall or restaurants.
(My research buddy and I would have a good breakfact, a snack for lunch,
then a decent dinner break at a restaurant and a walk, and then go back
to the library for an evening session. The library is open 7:45 am to 10
pm, but closes at 6 on Mon. and Sat, I think.)

Anne

..Why is NATO fighting in Kosovo on the side of drug-financed Marxists?
Do Europeans support this insanity? Is Bill Clinton "The Manchurian
Candidate"?..

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