Good info Bill. They now have most of the microfilm readers controlled by  
computer. You can download anything on the screens to a flash/thumb drive 
too  for use on your computers
 
 
In a message dated 6/25/2012 10:52:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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You park  in the basement and then you take the elevator to the first floor 
(unless  you are parked somewhere else and you just walk directly into the 
first  floor from the sidewalk).  Just go up the big stairs from the first  
floor to the second floor and turn left at the top to go to the "genealogy  
section."  They usually have a person at the desk in that area who  can 
help 
you.  There is also another desk where a person will assign  you a 
microfilm 
reader, if you want to use one (an you almost certainly  will).  The 
cabinets 
that contain the microfilm reels are also in  that same area, and someone 
can 
direct you to the county or area of  interest within those cabinets (and 
they 
are also marked on the front of  each drawer of each cabinet).  They also 
have an "archive room" where  many original documents are kept, and you can 
go in there and ask for  assistance, as well.  There are also computers in 
that same general  area that you can use (and you can access the LOVa 
website 
on them, it you  want to refresh your memory on what the library has 
available....and  where).  There are also books along the outside wall that 
contain  censuses.

If you want a Will from Hanover Co., VA, for example, you  just pull the 
microfilm reel from the Hanover Co., VA drawer that contains  Wills .  In 
some cases, the index for Wills, deeds, etc. may be on  one film reel, and 
that will then direct you to another reel on which the  document of 
interest 
is actually located (while some other reels have the  index at the front, 
and 
the actual document is simply "deeper" in that  same reel).  Most of the 
microfilm readers do not allow you to print  anything, so if you find 
something that you want to print, you will have  to take the reel and 
reload 
it on one of the few readers that do have a  "print function." The staff 
will 
be glad to show you how to do that.   You can apply for a library card, and 
you can then "apply money" (say, for  example $10) to that card (they have 
an 
"ATM-like" machine that will let  you do that).  You can then insert that 
card into the microfilm  printer to pay for any/all copies that you want to 
make.

The other  side of that floor of the library (to the right of the top of 
the 
big  stairs) has a large section of books that are arraigned by county.  
You  
may find census, marriage, deed, etc., etc. information over there that  
you 
did not find in the microfilm (as well as county histories and things  like 
that).

Bill Davidson

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