Dot Jones <A HREF="http://www.ci.thomson.ga.us/County/Minutes/commission/12-04-02.htm">spoke</A> before the McDuffie County Board of Commissioners on 4 Dec 2002 - while her address is not in the online minutes (that I can find) if the meetings are handled normally - her address will be in the minutes. And - one of your pages has her addy - I looked it up and it is listed as James Alva Jones in Thomson Going to the August Chronicle sounds like a great idea - but not to "expose" the foundation. Perhaps a better way to approach this would be contacting them to run an article on your County site (free publicity) - if/when someone shows interest in doing so - you can work a gentle complaint into the interview. It humors me that Mrs. Jones is the head of the McDuffie Historical Society (your dilemma is the prime example of this being a hysterical society) and the Wrightsboro Foundation) and has her thumb on all of the research. The other way is for you to become involved with the Foundation - but come in through the back door - not via Mrs. Jones. And lastly, it is privately held - not much you can do to force the situation except to get the word out - but you are going to have to walk a very thin rope. I don't know if this is "legal" on our pages but you might consider doing this: Write Mrs. Jones a formal request - not mentioning your prior conversation..... enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. If she says the same thing in her letter back to you (and being a southern woman of that certain age she will write back) I would then put something on my page that lists the documents, records, etc. held by Wrightsboro Foundation and then say unfortunately these records are not available - link it to an image of her letter. After you have her letter, you can write the organization that has made this a Historical Landmark - and tell them how concerned you are that the public doesn't have access to the records - I would get the guy who called her to write a letter too - and inclose it with yours. This brings us back to the copyright laws - are privately held public documents under copyright laws. Email the Ga Archives and find out! MK Harrison <A HREF="http://mkharrison.com">mkharrison.com</A> <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~gabarrow/">Barrow County, GA</A> <A HREF="http://www.ancestry.com/landing/homelandsweeps2/landing2.html?SourceCode=3913&iid=3913%3A+Sweepstakes+1">Ancestry.com</A> I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with - stone clubs. -Albert Einstein