All of our local researchers are incredibly busy with requests piling up for them. I would like to urge all of you who have requested information to Louisa County to be patient. Again, I urge you to post your requests to the IALOUISA mailing list whenever possible instead of writing directly to one researcher. That way, someone else may pick up your request and find info for you. If you want to ask about fees or policies of the individual researchers, then you need to write directly to the researcher's e-mail address listed on our Lookup page. We can't post fees, etc on line so this needs to be handled privately. You will in all cases be expected to pay for photographs, documents, photocopying, etc. that can't be sent e-mail. Even if the researcher does not request payment, a reasonable donation is always appreciated as they go out of their way to help you and do a tremendous amount of work on the list that does not include any remuneration.. They do have unaccounted for expenses traveling to the library, courthouse, paper, stamps, etc. etc. If it were only one request they might be able to absorb the expenses, but your request is only one in hundreds of requests received in a year's time so don't take advantage of their generosity. While our data that is on line is all free according to Rootsweb policy, please do not ask people to do extensive research for you for nothing and remember you are only one of many of their clients so they can't devote full time to you alone. They courteously do the best that they can, but we all get turned off by a demanding party. As an example of what may be required to look up one single person's listing in a single book, I am including an example below of a poorly indexed book albeit there were two different indexes in it. Request for information on Priscilla Cummings b. 1767, d. September 10, 1837, Palmer, Hampden, MA. Priscilla married a SLATE, a MAGOON (Not sure what order) and lastly Samuel LEMON. She also went by the name Priscilla PEPPER at times. This was my reply: My research was basically unfruitful. I checked the index for Priscilla Cummings and found five listings in the index, p. 5, 15, 39, 57, 199. Page 5, no Priscilla, turned the page over to page 6, and found Priscilla b. October 1, 1689; d. Sept. 13, 1728 Page 15, no Priscilla, but on page 17 was a Priscilla, no data Page 39, no Priscilla, checked three pages forward and three pages backward and even tried 93 in the event numbers were transposed. Still no Priscilla Page 57, no Priscilla, checked three pages forward and three pages backward and 75 in event the numbers were transposed still no Priscilla. Page 199, no Priscilla, checked three pages forward and three pages backward and 189, 198 in event of a numerical typo, no Priscilla. Checked under collateral lines under persons who married Descendants of Isaac Cummings, in the event she was listed under one of her four married names, no Slate, or Magoon, or Lemon or Pepper surnames even found in this particular book. I do know that some lines are missing entirely from this book and more can be found on them on the Internet GenForum site. Since none of her married surnames are listed in the book in the spouses index, she apparently is not in the book, "Isaac Cummings of Ipswich and his Descendants, published in 1904. Isaac Cummings birth record was found in England, and I believe the Louisa County Cummings go back to a much later immigrant from Ireland during the 1800's so they would not be found in the Isaac Cummings book.. Many of these later Cummings are found buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Morning Sun. Some info on this family is also in the card file in the Washington County, Iowa Genealogical Library but none of these would date back as early as 1765. http://www.genforum.com Type in the surname Cummings in the search engine to go to the Cummings pages. I'm sorry I couldn't produce Priscilla Cummings for you. Sincerely, Norma Jennings.