I’m working on translating and citing this document that I obtained when I was in Salt Lake at the Family History Library. Fortunately when I saved the file, I included part of the microfilm roll number as the file name.<\/p>\n
The immigration records were the only item on the film, so a specific item number from the film was not necessary. The files were organized by first letter of the last name and the number of pages per file varied. I copied several files at the same time from this series of records. What I should have done at the time–and not later–was to make notes about the organization of the records in a document that was saved with the actual images. That document should have included what I noted about the records as I went through them–whether they were totally alphabetical, chronological by first letter of last name, how many pages were typically in a file, if there were any sort of page numbers, if the page numbers started over with each file, if there was a set of page numbers that started with each set of files based on the first letter of the name, etc. These are things that I will not remember later.<\/p>\n
Fortunately I copied enough of these records that I can determine these things now. But it would have been easier if I had typed up these observations as I was making the digital images.<\/p>\n
Not later.<\/p>\n
The roll number 1257600 indicated that I was using\u00a0the\u00a0Auswanderungskonsenses from Ostfriesland, Germany for the years 1868-1913 that were for individuals whose last name began with a “G.” Including the roll number as a part of the file name when saving images from microfilm is always a good idea. Then I’ve got the citation to the roll without having to include that as a part of the image.<\/p>\n![\"title\"](\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/title.jpg\")
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