In a message dated 1/20/2002 4:38:03 PM Central Daylight Time, dckcgs@hotmail.com writes: > the decleration of intent book 1 is sealed at the Dubuque County Court > House. I can tel you that he was signed 30 July 1852, it does not give any > information about age, or where he was from. the Certificate # is 1017 you > can write to the Court House but I dothe Genealogical Society's research > and > know that it is sealed by the Court. > Thank you for the information. Does anyone know why the Court would seal the records? Kathy Stoneberg http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kstoneberg/ourfamily.htm