I too have been to the courthouse. I had heard that documents had been trashed too before I went. Makes my skin crawl. I was particularly interested in finding a divorce record. Went to the City Clerks office. A man took me upstairs to a room with stacks of things. He said the divorce records were on the very top and he would look thru them and get back to me. Of course I never heard from him. I was very suprised at the library too, they didn't act like they knew what a genealogy department was. On the other hand, the library in Clayton has a very good g. department. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com