I HAVE to share this one! One the one hand , we know how people have worked to find and share lost records or replacements for them. The first "official record" I found for my grandmother's grandmother was in a book of "recovered marriages" in the Cincinnati courthouse. But there are also clerks who think the records are their own personal property to be preserved and kept from public scrutiny. A friend of mine had transcribed some records (probably cemetery - I dont recall) and given a copy of them to the Court House. One day she was researching in the Court House and needed some information she had forgotten to bring, but HAD recorded in her book. She asked the clerk to see the book and was told that it was not available to the public. She said "I wrote the book". -- same answer "I can tell you the page number" ... no "I can describe the WATERMARK ON THE PAGE!" -- still "NO! " Her other books are available in OTHER repositories! Barbara Rice