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Requesting Records, Step By Step
11/1/2003
How to Order Records Through a Family History Center.
Ordering records through a Family History Center can require several steps. For example, if you wished to find microfilmed deed records from 1820 to 1850 for your Green County, Ky., ancestors, here's what you would do:

1. Check the FHL catalog (online, on CD-ROM or at the FHC) to see what deed indexes exist for those years and that locality. (Do a place search, and then look under the topic Land and Property.) Several series of indexes may cover the same time period.

2. At the FHC, order the pertinent microfilm rolls of index volumes.

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