Berkshire Athenaeum. NARA Microfilm | Online Databases | Books | Volunteers Needed | Questions At this point all of the books, finding aids and microfilm materials that comprised the collections of the NARA Pittsfield facility have arrived at the Berkshire Athenaeum and are housed in an area specially prepared for them on the lower level of the library. The computers that were used for online access at NARA are expected to physically transfer during the week of September 19th.
With the invaluable assistance of NARA archivist Jean Nudd-Elliott, Athenaeum Local History and Reference staff are currently in the process of gaining a basic knowledge of the most-used portions of the microfilm collection (which totals some 71,000 reels of film) through five different workshops that Jean is conducting. The knowledge gained through these workshops has given us sufficient information to develop a preliminary plan for providing researchers with access to these vast microfilmed resources.
Access to Microfilm Resources. Berkshire Family History Association. BFHA: The Berkshire Genealogist. The Berkshire Family History Association ( BFHA) has published the Berkshire Genealogist, a compilation of censuses, indices, reports, cemetery and church records, etc. relating to persons and places of Massachusetts and its neighboring states of New York, Vermont, and Connecticut. The Genealogist is published four times a year. Past issues (from 1978) of the Berkshire Genealogist have been indexed by surname and can be searched: As a service to those members using computers, we offer this cumulative index for Volumes 1-34 of BERKSHIRE GENEALOGIST in one 4.2mb file (BFHA13.TXT).
BFHA13.TXT is best accessed by importing this ASCII file into your word processor and using its find capabilities. Or one could make use of the DOS "FIND" (with "MORE" filter) command. We believe that the FIND.EXE and MORE.COM files are available on all current versions of DOS and WINDOWS, Versions 3.X and 95. The following is an example of the use of FIND.EXE, assuming you are reading Drive C. 1. 2. 3. P. Pioneer Valley History Network. Western MA Genealogical Society.
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