Joan Best wrote: > State archivists invited to restore and preserve some four million > court documents left unexamined for over a century in file cabinets > in the St. Louis Courthouse have found nearly 300 lawsuits by slaves > seeking their freedom between 1809 and 1865. > > http://www.stlcourtrecords.wusl.edu When I tried to go there directly, I got a no DNS. I googled it, and got a URL without the WWW, which worked. Nice page, interesting content, but when I clicked on SEARCH THIS SITE, I got 0 hits on a name I _know_ was involved with the courts. So I tried several other names, and also no hits. On SMITH, I got 7 hits. *7* documents mention SMITH in a 200-yr period? I can't feature that! Clearly I did _something_ wrong...someone else want to try? Cheryl singhals@erols.com