Why is using Civil War Microfilm better than working with the physical microfilm reels at a nearby library or university? Can’t I get the same thing there for free?
Convenience is obviously a factor. You don’t have to drive to the library or university to work with our film, and you can access documents to which you’ve subscribed 24 hours a day, seven days a week from wherever you wish, whether it’s at a local coffee shop or your home computer in the comfort of your pajamas. There’s also no time limit on our viewer like there is at some libraries during peak hours. Unless you know exactly what you’re looking for, searching through potentially hundreds of reels of film for a specific soldier can be a daunting task. Civil War Microfilm provides a soldier search built right into our microfilm viewer which allows you to quickly locate the exact reel in which you’re interested, immediately jump to it and start viewing documents within a matter of seconds — no more loading and unloading physical reels of film! Finally, because we’ve digitized the original microfilm, we allow you to manipulate the images of the original documents in ways which have not b
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