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From: "Kim Ulysses" <>
Subject: Re: Re:[Lon]Fiche or Cd
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 08:29:59 +0100
References: <3AC642A2.21889DE0@virgin.net>


Hello Guy, and anyone else who knows about "fiche" related things....

I too have been pondering the use of fiche - how on earth does one get hold
of a microfiche-reader, what do they costs, and are they like those MASSIVE
things you get in the library?!! Also, when people talk about ordering info
on fiche from the LDS Centres, does that mean you can take the fiche home to
look at, or do they have to be viewed at the Centre? And finally, does
anyone have experience of viewing their own fiche's at their local library
(if you havn't got a reader of your own)- ie. do they mind you doing that?

Many thanks

Kim
Hampshire

----- Original Message -----
From: Guy Etchells <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 9:48 PM
Subject: Re:[Lon]Fiche or Cd


> You obviously do not use fiche and cds very often Jayne, I have been a
> great supporter of ArchiveCDbooks a project that scans out of print
> books to cd.,
>
> http://www.archivecdbooks.com/
>
> but even so I find that in many cases it is still faster to manipulate a
> fiche than a cd.
> Of course there are advantages to having the information on cd as well,
> especially if the information on the cd is in a digital format rather
> than a scan or has a digital index as the above cds.
> I feel the two media complement each other.
> Cheers
> Guy
>
> --
> Wakefield England
>
> http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.etchells Transcripts, Parish
> Records, Calendar, Scaleable Map of Uk. Link to LDS website,
> Abbreviations, Returns of Owners of Lands etc. etc.
> http://www.guye.freeserve.co.uk Whitefield Transcripts, Etch/ells
> Transcripts
> http://gye.future.easyspace.com Worldwide Cemetery Links, Monumental
>
> Inscriptions, War Graves, etc.
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/CHURCH/church.htm
> Churches & MIs. in the Wakefield Area
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/Ossett/obmi1.htm
> Transcripts of 1st Baptist Burial ground Ossett
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/tmi.htm Photos of
> St. James Churchyard, Wakefield
>
>
> > Hi List
> >
> > I have been reading various e mails about records on fiche or cds and it
seems strange to me that fiche is still in use when it is so much easier to
use cds.
> >
> > Also can someone tell me what records and censuses are available on cd
other that the 1881 census and vital records and where they can be bought in
the UK?
> >
> > Many thanks
> > Jayne
> >
>
>
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