This is a copy of a post that did not make it to the list. REPORT FROM MACON COUNTY, ALABAMA Engineer, Glenn Drummonds (via [email protected]) RECORDS RESCUE... MACON COUNTY, ALABAMA Twenty volunteers began remmoving documents from the semi-trailers storage, cleaned dust and spider from the documents, and made inventory cards on the morning of May 1, 1999. More volunteers are needed as there are three semi-trucks with old records. 174 volumes of Circuit Court and other records were recovered. 35 storage boxes of Probagte Court "Loose papers" were moved plus two large boxes of "Loose papers" that were spilled from their containeers. Inventory cards were made for each volume; the "loose papers" have not been inventoried. The documents range in date from 1834 to 1957 with many in the 1880-1910 era. A random sampling of documents removed from the trailer on May 1 follows. No attempt to sort or otherwise categorize by source or topic--this will come later; but, this is only a trial format: Am just picking out a "sampling" of what has already been inventoried: Macon County Circuit Court, Appearance Docket, 1833-61 Macon County Circuit Court, State Final Record 1890-1903 Macon County Circuit Court, Final Records "A" , 1883-92 Macon County Circuit Court, State Bar Docket, 1855-65 Macon County Circuit Court, Trial Docket, 1839-41 Macon County Court, Minutes, 1843-48 Civil Writ Docket, 1899, 1905 Execution Docket, 1842-49 Sheriff's Docket, 1855-70 Appearance Docket, 1845-54 Others... Glen Drummond, Engineer, has a mission to provide proper storage for the records in these trailers and has solicited the aid of many; but, in particular...the aid of Michael Matthews of the Auburn City Library System to help catalogue and file the records. Drummonds says..."It will take some time and require volunteers to ehlp do some of the "grunt" work. He needs help in going through and moving the records so-ooooooooo if anyone is interested in helping, please contact him at the County Engineer's Office (1-334-724-2619). It can be a lot of fun when you find handwritten records that are more than 160 years old." Maybe some of you on the Macon County Rootsweb circuit would like to help? Also, these records involve surrounding counties of Macon and even some Georgia areas. PLEASE HELP! Physical or financial help for this worthy cause will be accepted. John and Jan Radford [email protected] Baton Rouge, La