I was mad, at first. My search for the 1846 immigration records for my kids' Mom's family produced a microfilm roll number. The write-up said to find it at a National Archives center near me.
I found myself standing at the Chicago NARA site only to be told that the digitizing of the microfilm meant the item was no longer retained on the shelves.
It seems microfilm is slowly dying a digital death.
Alas, the NARA people were helpful nonetheless. They couldn't find the digitized image at first, either, but a suggestion to look one day forward was a prime one.
I hit pay dirt that, before day's end, took me back three generations deep into Germany.
Disselbrett, I would come to learn, is the Americanized version of Disselbrede. This is news to a side of the family now four generations in America.
A FamilySearch.org treasure trove awaited.
So, the microfilm keepers proved very helpful even though microfilm keeping is slipping from their repertoire.
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