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I'm Going to the FHL! - And I Need Your Help!

5/3/2014

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Two weeks from today, my husband and I will be on our way to Salt Lake City.  There is a short conference/class that my husband wanted to attend for work, and he suggested that I come along and we make a little non-kid vacation out of it.  (And, yes, he knew when he mentioned it to me that I wouldn't be able to refuse!  He knows the power of the Family History Library, lol!)  

This will be my first trip to the FHL.  I will only have two days of research time.  I am going into this experience with realistic expectations of how much (how little) research I will probably be able to accomplish in that short period of time.  I will only be concentrating on a couple of family lines, and I will be primarily searching for microfilmed records that I have already found to be indexed on FamilySearch.org.  All of the films are international.   I know exactly which microfilms I will need, and I will be using this online form to request them ahead of time, so they are ready to go when I arrive.  I have printed out copies of the indexed records and paper-clipped them together with a single-page print out of that portion of the family tree.  I will have a stenographer's notebook where I have written down who and what I am looking for in each family, and I will also use it to take additional source notes, if necessary.  I also plan on bringing my iPad so that I can access all of my family tree records that I have put online, if I need to look something up.  

If possible, I would like to avoid having to bring my laptop, mainly just for travel reasons.  I plan on using a USB flash drive to collect records, and I will copy what I find onto my OneDrive 'cloud' or Google Drive just to be on the safe side.  I actually want to invest in a new flash drive for the occasion - any recommendations or suggestions?

So, for those of you who have done research at the FHL, what am I forgetting?  Any advice or suggestions for a newbie?  My husband and I will also be taking some time to tour Salt Lake City and the surrounding area, and I'd love to hear suggestions for what to see, where to eat, etc.

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