Re: "You will not be able to pull Confederate CMSR's as they will tell you they are on fold 3."
Some years ago, before Footnote/Fold3, I would often find that the microfilm files were too faint to read after printing.
In these cases, I would be able to get the staff to pull the actual CSMR envelopes.
Today, with Fold3, we often find cards unreadable on-line.
Have you any experience with getting the actual files pulled? Is that possible?