Rita,
Ah ha! The original! I just got this Monday AM -- even tho it's dated
Saturday. ???
I have had the same experience as this person. I understood this was a
WPA project. No?
Anyway, the microfilm of the marriage data is available thru the LDS
FHC. I don't know if it might be possible to get the microfilm from
WSHS Library & sent to her local library, but then again, maybe? I
*know* she can order thru her local FHC, for a cost of only $3.50 per
film. Since it takes about 3 weeks to come in, she should probably
order now to have it available for her Spring break.
She can look up the film numbers at:
http://www.familysearch.org/Search/searchcatalog.asp
Marsha
(Temp) Iron Co.
zorblitz wrote:
Hello All,
I received this letter yesterday, and would really like some input on
the many pertainent and complicated questions asked here, as I am no
expert. I believe that this is of general interest and use to most on
this list and I would like to give the best reply possible, because we
all know that " a motivated volunteer is a terrible thing to waste".
Thank you so much! Rita - Oconto CC
Hi!
I was excited to see that someone else looked at those crazy pre-1907
marriage fiche too!
This may sound like a stupid question and I suppose that I could hunt
down the right "older" person at the Historical Society, but the
information on the fiche was generated by a computer in the 1980s???.
Where is that data now? Why would someone have to retype that in. I
kind of figure it has to be on some old mainframe on the UW Madison
campus and has not been touched in years, but is on a big tape at the
Historical Society that they would have to load on some machine. The
computer people should then be able to export it to a text file that
could be read by a word processor and loaded to the various webs.
What do you know about this?
Now, I personally have a problem with the information on the fiche AND
since you are "in charge" of Oconto Co. maybe you could help me with
one of my crazy ideas! It appears that some of my relatives are not
listed in the index, but when I go to the actual rolls of film, they
are there and the film is quite readable. What I would like to
o ---- and I'm not too sure how fast I could do it -- or where to
start, would be to create a database of the information found on the
records from the 2 rolls of Oconto Co. Marriage Licenses (pre-1907).
1. Do you have copies of the rolls that UW GB has that I could
borrow?
2. If not, do you know who does?
3. Are copies available for sale?
4. Do you know who might have a film reader that I might
borrow/rent during spring break? (March 17-25)
Getting the film to Oshkosh is my first priority. I would like to
work starting in March, preferably at home, but I could always take my
laptop computer with me to the public library or create paper forms
(ugh).
I found all sorts of information on the actual licenses that helped me
trace spouses and other information on women's married and maiden
names. If it were in a database, it could be sorted by church,
minister, dates, birthplaces, as well as searched by names.....
parents, bridesmaids, etc.
So, what do you think? Can you help????
Kathy