Census Fiche - which category to use?

[Anniemcc2]

I have quite a few Census microfiche that I am considering listing but have no idea which category to use as there is no dedicated Genealogy category.

The best I can come up with at the moment is Books/Non-Fiction/Other.

Answers on a postcard please

[FirstGreenIsGold]

I have some microfiche as well. Don't know if I should list them or not. Our public library has retired the fiche reader. I think I was the only person who ever used it. (The reader is stored on a top shelf in the library, so I know it is still on premises.)

The local FHC of the LDS church also has a microfiche reader, but the head librarian tells me it is stored away in another area of the church. For me to use it, I'd have to inconvenience her and ask that some of the church members haul it into the FHC.

But, I've wandered off topic.

I also have some family history CDs that I purchased from the Family History Society of Cheshire a long time ago, back when I was using MS Windows whatever.

I have no idea if anyone would find these items useful of if I should throw them out.

(All items relate to Cheshire and the Wirral in England.)

[FirstGreenIsGold]

Sorry I didn't answer your question, Annie.

[Maelbrigda]

i think your chosen catagory works well Annie.

[madelaine]

Just put all your genealogy stuff into a category in your shop so that, if anyone wanders in,they find it all!

I heard someone talking from the National Archives at Kew recently and he said that the microfiche has the longest life of any modern data storage without actually needing technology to read it... "a torch and the bottom of a coke bottle" was the minimum requirement

[astral276]

Ancestry has free access to to UK records this Bank Holiday weekend if anyone is interested.

[FirstGreenIsGold]

I heard someone talking from the National Archives at Kew recently and he said that the microfiche has the longest life of any modern data storage without actually needing technology to read it... "a torch and the bottom of a coke bottle" was the minimum requirement

Thanks! Good idea. I might use something other than a bottle, but will give it a try as I'd really like to have a look at my fiche again.