Saving the Past for the Future-Tales of International Search and Cooperation

Abstract

So begins the account by Archibald F. Bennett of the microfilming of parish records in the Swiss Canton of Vaud. Bennett tells of an ' 'abrupt and rugged climb up the tortuous trail in a car, and then that Pastor Bert welcomed us into his manse, assigned us a room, and brought in 1 18 volumes of registers. There was electricity up there on the mountainside; but it turned out to be insufficient for the camera lights, so the records had to be taken down the mountain to a town for filming, and then they had to be returned up the mountain. Bennett continues:

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