Well here I am now getting ready to go, I have been doing my homework in terms of all the advice I've been given. Much of the homework I had done months ago as far as the IGI database to identify which films to order and some I did when we went to Tlachichila in Sept 2004. All of this data is what compelled me to go to SLC. There is so much that needs to be looked up and verified that only a trip to SLC will do it.
I found that I would get very agressive and order many rolls of film at my local FHS and by the time my 3 or 4 weeks were up I'd only had a chance to review 2 or 3 rolls, hence the trip to SLC. I will be there for 3 days and nights but somehow I don't believe that will be enough. I see from some of your responses that some of you go several times a year. That also tells me that 3 days will not be enough but I also know that I don't have the financial resources to go often.
My question to those of you who have completed or are very advanced in your quest to find your ancestors is how long did it take you to compile this data and how many hours in a day, week or month did you have to invest in order to get that far? Did you do it alone or did you collaborate with other family members? Did most of you do it through your family history centers? As I see it now I have approximately 47 rolls of film that I need to request and I believe as I have some new findings I will find that I might have additional requests.
My other question is how many rolls is the average you can review in one day or is there an average. When I would go to my local FHS it would sometimes take up to six hours to go over one roll because I didn't want to miss anything that might not be too obvious if I scanned through it too quickly and some were difficult to read.
I guess I'm thinking out loud and maybe someone out there has good tips on how to scan film and how not to scan film, the right way vs the wrong way.
Alicia
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