Saturday, June 14, 2008

Skeletons in Trees

The title refers to the proverbial "Skeletons in the Closet" found when researching family trees!

Our main purpose for visiting Salt Lake City was to visit the LDS Family History Library. This library has an huge amount of genealogical information collected over many years.




There are many available computer terminals for searching the computerized catalogs.






Over 2 million reels of microfilms!





And many microfilm reader booths to scan them.






All of this is available essentially for free, with only a small fee for each paper copy.

We were both able to find some new information about our family histories. There is also a digital microfilm scanner where I was able to capture many pages from the 1700s Stockholm, Sweden Combmakers Guild books.

Art

2 comments:

Bob and Di said...

Godspeed, Good Friends, until we meet again,

Bob and Di

HOUN said...

Glad you both are finally off. There are those that say you already were . . . well. Like your site. How come your's looks so good on Blogger and ours looks so pedestrian ( hounsjournal.blogspot ) New templates or did you tweek? Looking forward to following your adventures. -- Jon & Loni