{"id":5,"date":"2006-04-20T11:28:19","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T11:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/20\/heading-to-salt-lake-city\/"},"modified":"2016-05-07T20:15:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T03:15:46","slug":"heading-to-salt-lake-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/5","title":{"rendered":"Heading to Salt Lake City"},"content":{"rendered":"

My flight to Salt Lake City<\/a> leaves from Oakland at 7:30 PM tonight .\u00a0 I’m all packed, but I’m not sure\u00c2\u00a0I’ve ever really been ready for a genealogy research trip .\u00a0 I’ve been preparing for the last couple of months, trying to get my Family Tree Maker<\/a> files in order, trying to organize my sources so I don’t spend time looking up documentation I already have, and searching the Family History Library<\/a> (FHL) catalog for the books and microfilms I want to see while I’m at the FHL.<\/p>\n

I found a bunch of films that were in the Granite Mountain Vault<\/a>, so about two weeks ago I sent off an email to the FHL asking if they could get those films to the FHL in time for my visit .\u00a0 Two weeks is a good lead time for this task;\u00c2\u00a0 one time I only gave them a week and they weren’t able to get the films in time for my visit.<\/p>\n

One unusual set of films I want to look at is the Massachusetts Selective Service System Registration Cards [World War II]: Fourth Registration .\u00a0 These cards represent older men, born between 28 Apr 1877 and 16 Feb 1892, who registered for the draft in 1942 .\u00a0 I set up a custom report in FTM to find any men in my file for whom I had recorded a birth, marriage, or death in Massachusetts, and who were born in the appropriate period .\u00a0 This gave me the names of 55 men to look up in this set of films .\u00a0 Unfortunately, this collection includes 166 microfilm reels, all of which are in the vault!\u00c2\u00a0 I guess nobody knows about this set of records and has never requested them before!\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I couldn’t order all 166 reels, so I ordered the four I thought would be the most relevant for me .\u00a0 When I get to the FHL on Friday, the first thing I’ll do is order some more films and hope\u00c2\u00a0that they’ll arrive before I leave on Tuesday .\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some of the other\u00c2\u00a0sources I plan to look at are:<\/p>\n