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...genealogy, as any veteran will tell you, is no cushy computer-desk job. Its aficionados are besieging National Archives branches and county historical societies, rummaging through newspapers' microfilm, tramping through rural courthouses and overgrown cemeteries. Each year 800,000 people visit the Mormons' Family History Library in Salt Lake City...
Early on a misty winter morning, Corinne Konecny, 39, takes the elevator to the microfilm-research room on the fourth floor of the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington. She is looking for her great-great-grandfather, whose name was Solomon Seif...
...Harvard has been involved with using microfilm for preservation for long period of time and has received various grants. There has always been a good track records of receiving these grants and carrying them out," Cline said...
...University Library does not plan to start at the beginning of their collections and attempt to transfer everything to microfilm. Instead,, they will take materials from collections that they have determined to be the most at risk and most in need of retirement from...
Cline said that the microfilm would be easierto use because of its on-line index, but access tooriginal documents would still be available tothose who need them...