Hello, Cheryl: Please let me know how to send a contribution. The destruction of such records is a wound to all genealogists and must be stopped whenever possible. It's maddening that the records were ever sold in the first place; a little effort would have located an archive willing to take them and make them available. By the way, I live in Mount Vernon, Skagit County, WA so we're almost neighbors! Thanks... Dale EchosPast@aol.com wrote: > P.S. If there is a surplus of funds after the Archive purchases what the > dealer has for sale, I will return the remainder to the last people who > donated unless they want the Archive to keep the funds for more acquisitions. > I will leave that up to them. > > Thanks, > > Cheryl