Re: [Cz-L] SLC Family History Library

Is there no way for our members to take the CZ and vicinity films and
convert to digital media for posting on the web so we don't have to stand in
line waiting for the films. I was so discouraged by the reference to long
waits that I have not even ordered the films.

Ervin Spinner
----- Original Message -----
From: "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>
To: "czernowitz-L" <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 2:49 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] SLC Family History Library


> Czernowitzers:
>
> I'm passing to you this message from Wolf Scheachter. At the end I've
> included a link to the sample data that Wolf photographed.
> Best,
> jerome
>
> --
>
> Monday afternoon, before taking the airplane back to San Jose, Donna and I
> stopped at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City to explore the
> microfilm stuff they have on CZ.
>
> Although, the years we were looking for were "in the vault" there was one
> film that I photographed to get an idea of how the data looks. Although
> not useful for me, one could find treasures of in those films. Like where
> the people and their ancestors were born, places they came from, and so
> on. See that attached images.
>
> According to the volunteer who guided us, the information in the records
> is uneven. Sometimes you get the whole enchilada and other times, just
> names without much more.
>
> The CZ records, by the way, include a special set of Jewish-only films.
> These are subdivided into films of the "matrial" or "matrical" [birth,
> marriage, death] records and civil records. The films are by year, with
> one film containing several years. All this is on the LDS family history
> website.
>
> To get films out of the vault, one calls the distribution center and they
> send the films to the local library. Apparently that can take time if you
> are not in Zion, which is what the Mormons call Utah. If one is visiting
> the Salt Lake headquarters of the Library, the vault process takes only
> two days and sometimes a morning call can have the films there in the
> afternoon.
>
> We'll probably go back there and attempt to find out more about my
> ancestors who left no records.
>
> Wolf
>
> --
> Here's the link for those who are interested in what the data looks like:
> http://www.ehpes.com/tmp/data.html
>
> --

Received on 2007-06-20 15:45:05