**SPAM**: Re: [or-roots] film and fische

[W David Samuelsen]

no, the films and fiches will be there until converted to digital. Some will be 
redone by going back to the places for some pages. It will take several years to 
do that.

At the FGS convention in Sept, more details will come out on that.

David Samuelsen

DAVIESW739 at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/2/2005 5:55:15 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
> dsam at sampubco.com writes:
> 
>     Starting LAST year, there won't be any microfiches or microfilms
>     made from
>     microfilming operations by the Family History Department. They are
>     changing
>     the operations to digital scanning operations, direct from records to
>     computer laptops.
> 
>     This has been reported by Wayne Metcalfe of Acquisitions Division,
>     not once
>     but three times. He spoke of it first time June 2004 - the Deaf were
>     first
>     to learn of the changeover, the International conference of
>     Archivists in
>     Sydney, Austria in Aug 2004, then last Jan at the Family History
>     Library's
>     110th anniversary celebration - exact same speech he gave.
> 
>     David Samuelsen
> 
> Does that mean they are going to destroy all those old films or what??????
>  
> Walt Davies
> Cooper Hollow Farm
> Monmouth, OR 97361
> 503 623-0460