Penny, The Recorder's Office in the Henry Co., IA courthouse has all the land grantor/grantee indexes from the beginning of land records. They also have land transfer indexes that you may fill in any gaps that the grantor/grantee indexes miss. The deeds are all there. The Clerk's office has probate court files. Some of the older district court files are in the basement and are inaccessable to the public. I suggest you write to the Henry Co. Genealogical Society if you want to look at them. I had good sucess with getting an old district court file photocopied by Doris Sharp from New London, IA. There are also town lot indexes in the Recorder's office. The Recorder's office has the birth, death, and marriage records. The Mt. Pleasant Public Library is a good place to stop also. There is a small area for genealogy. They have Henry Co. Gen. Soc. books with abstracted records of cemeteries, birth, deaths and marriages; county histories, a filing cabinet with Town and Township files; microfilms of the Mt. Pleasant and Salem newspapers; etc. I hope this helps. Leslie W. Saint PenWeb@aol.com wrote: > > Will someone please help me on this? > > My husband and I are planning a trip to Iowa from Florida this July, to > search for info on his CARTER family. We have a P. O. Box address for the > Henry County Courthouse, but knowing from past experience what some response > time has been, we are hoping to have the physical address and open times > before we leave. > > I know it is very difficult to find info before 1880, but at least there > should be some land records. Joel CARTER left Ontario, Canada after 1870, > stopped for a while in Mt. Pleasant, and then on to Nebraska, probably around > 1880. Hoping to find some sort of record on the CARTER family. > > Any help is deeply appreciated. > > Penny Webster Brown, in Florida