Flash drives are so cheap now. You can buy one that is a 2GB for probably
less than $5. I use a 4GB to copy my documents from my PC to carry with me
when I travel. I have all my notes and documents as well as the most current
files on my genealogy software.
-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 2:07 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Visiting LVA
An update: most of the microfilm readers are now attached to scanners, so
one can directly download anything on midrofilm to their flash drive for
later loading on a computer. This is free, no more expensive photocopies
necessary. They will well you a 2GB flash drive if you don't already have
one.
A. Gwaltney
-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Davidson <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jun 25, 2012 10:45 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>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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