For anyone who can't travel to Pike County to do research, going through an LDS Library is certainly a good option. A friend of mine did that and found that the only difficulty was that she would order something on an inter-library (LDS church) loan, then get the tape, and it might or might not turn out to have on it what she hoped to find. Then she would order another, and another. So, it may require some patience to do that. However, not everyone can travel to do research. The Troy Public Library has an excellent genealogy/historical section and Karen Bullard, Asst. Director of the Library, and Dot Schrieber, as well as the rest of the staff are eager to help researchers. They know what they have there and can instantly start pulling out what you need when you go in. However, if you can't travel there, another option is to hire someone to research for you. On Dot Schrieber's own time (not her time working for the library) she does do some research for pay. As of my knowledge, the last I heard, the Troy Courthouse does not look up nor copy wills, estate records, or anything else for anyone because they don't have enough staff to take on doing that. They can only refer you to a genealogist/researcher for hire. The Public Library in Troy does have most everything in their records that the Troy Courthouse has, copier costs are cheaper, and in fact, they have other genealogy books, tapes, microfilms, etc. that pertain to other counties and states as well. Happy Hunting! Joyce ----- Original Message ----- Outgoing mail is Virus Scanned byNorman Data Defense. Inbound Spam reduced 98.2% byVircom Sieve.