Hi Elvira:
I'm impressed about of how you was described your "odyssey" to contribute for preservation the church records of San Juan de Guadalupe, Durango (many years). Your experience surely help us to understand that, not all people know the importance of this, but you report us a very relevant tips to solve the problem that you has had, and us could have.
1) Your persistence was successful.
2) You say a guy that help you (and could help others, I think): Benicio Sanchez, that you say is the President of the Sociedad Genealogica del Norte de Mexico. Is not a good idea that you proved us the contact with him?
3) When a archive is microfilmed, the access to it is too much more easy (you expend your time now to go another places that no microfilm is available, but for San Juan de Guadalupe, Dgo., you only go to the FHC to see their records).
Thanks for share your
marvelous experience. There are a large information in the www, regards "Preservation of Records" the following