Hi,
This is the best instructions that I have seen. Sometimes when I go, I stay at the Marriott for convenience.
Carolyn H Pappas
McLean VA
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From: Bill Davidson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Visiting LVA
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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