On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:27:21 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:
>Someone told me the Mormons have an extensive facility for
>researching one's geneaology. (Apparently they believe you
>can pray your ancestors into heaven, too - if you know who
>they were.) I've never cared enough to bother, but I think
>the services are available to anyone, although I've no idea
>how much is involved in fees. (I'm sure they don't do it
>for nothing.)
>
They have microfilms of many types of records - municipal records
church records, land deeds (many original source records), etc., etc.,
both US and around the world. You can order a roll of microfilm for
only a few dollars then go into one of their reading rooms (where
there are microfilm readers) and plow through the films. You do your
own research; it is time-consuming hard work. They have Croatian
parish records (birth, death, marraige) back to the 1700s which I have
been reading for several years. I have been able to reconstruct
almost entire villages, and certainly many related family groups from
Church records (in both Latin and Croatian). (You should see the
impact of the Spanish Flu sweeping through families 1917-1919). Their
catalog is online now, so you can search it before you head out to
order the films from your local center. Monetary cost is nominal;
cost of your research time is another thing altogether. |