Alice, I live in Henry County and I am on the Board of Directors of the Henry County Historical Group, Inc. I go to the court house all the time. I have never been refused to make a picture of anything with my camera. The Old Records Committee that sorted and indexed the old records in courthouse annex for micro filming said the records were in boxes stored in the courthouse annex. I have called several people and there is no truth in story about the mop bucket. I have talked with the Official Henry County Historian and he said that the mop bucket thing did not happen. People should only put their personal experiences on line and not hear say. If anyone wants to view records and copy them by hand they are welcome to. I don't know a single person who was refused to make photographs, unless they asked someone in the courthouse who did not know it was okay. Perhaps they misunderstood the question and thought they wanted to put the old records on the copy machine. If you want printed copies, go the Library in Dothan or the Library in Abbeville and copy the actual records from the microfilm. My great grandfather's will was taken from the Henry County Courthouse over 25 years ago. It was found and returned only a couple of years ago. We in Henry County are here to preserve and protect our records for researchers. We have a wealth of old newspapers. Do you know that people actually go in there and tear articles out of early 1900 newspapers? Respect for our past is our highest concern. Roberta Childs <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

Hi Roberta, I did not bring up this subject but, to my regret, I did comment on it. Now I feel as if I must defend myself. As I said before, I know nothing about the mop bucket or the janitors closet. I had never heard that story before but I usually take stories like that with a grain of salt anyway. I have not passed along any "hear say" -- only my own personal experience. I do have respect for the past as well as old documents and understand concern for their preservation. It would have been very nice if the employees at the Courthouse had told me that I could use a camera or that the records were available on microfilm at the library but, this did not happen. I sincerely hope it didn't sound as if the people there were rude to me because they were not. Let's just say that they were not helpful. Basically my trip to Abbeville was wasted. Since I do not live in that area, a trip to Dothan or Abbeville isn't easily arranged. The library here doesn't have anything from Henry County on microfilm because there just isn't much demand for it where I live. This is information that out-of-town researchers need to know. Perhaps they should make a note of this on their sign or at least let people know when they ask about copies of old documents. I know I would have appreciated being referred to a reliable source. Alice ----- Original Message ----- From: <BertChilds@aol.com> To: <alhenry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [ALHENRY] Courthouse Records Lookup > Alice, > I live in Henry County and I am on the Board of Directors of the Henry > County Historical Group, Inc. I go to the court house all the time. I > have never > been refused to make a picture of anything with my camera. The Old > Records > Committee that sorted and indexed the old records in courthouse annex for > micro filming said the records were in boxes stored in the courthouse > annex. I > have called several people and there is no truth in story about the mop > bucket. I have talked with the Official Henry County Historian and he > said that > the mop bucket thing did not happen. People should only put their > personal > experiences on line and not hear say. If anyone wants to view records and > copy > them by hand they are welcome to. I don't know a single person who was > refused > to make photographs, unless they asked someone in the courthouse who did > not > know it was okay. Perhaps they misunderstood the question and thought > they > wanted to put the old records on the copy machine. If you want printed > copies, go the Library in Dothan or the Library in Abbeville and copy the > actual > records from the microfilm. My great grandfather's will was taken from > the > Henry County Courthouse over 25 years ago. It was found and returned only > a > couple of years ago. We in Henry County are here to preserve and protect > our > records for researchers. We have a wealth of old newspapers. Do you > know that > people actually go in there and tear articles out of early 1900 > newspapers? > Respect for our past is our highest concern. > Roberta Childs > <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free > email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at > http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHENRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

If someone is going to the courthouse in Henry county, could they lookup any birth records for John Albert Strickland (Stricklen, Stricklin), born 8 Aug 1860 (could be 1861) in I believe Columbia, Henry County. I managed to get the city from his oldest son's WWI draft registration record. His mother was Elvy Ann Strickland, apparently she was unmarried because he maintained her maiden name. Elvy died before the 1900 census in Gilley's District Dale county, I believe she died in the early part of 1900. I'm guessing such birth records don't exist. I have search the newspaper microfilm for the various Henry County newspapers that you can get through the interlibrary transfers for anything on the Stricklands in that area and haven't found anything. The interlibrary transfers are great. I'm guessing birth certificates didn't exist, but if anyone happens to see anything related to the Stricklands during their searches, I would appreciate any tibit. Thanks.