[or-roots] film and fische

[DanM]

I guess for those who go to the research places for genealogy
 it will be a good thing tho.

   I hate getting sea sick watching films go by>
Dan M
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Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 6:53 PM
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> 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