This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4g.2ADE/1756.4.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Patti, I really liked your comments. They were great. I actually live in Knox county and was just at the courthouse yesterday and you'll never guess what the stupid lady and I mean she was stupid. I got carded..... Asked for my I D and what relationship the dead lady was to me? I've been in that clerk's office a zillion times and gotten records for other people who aren't even related to me to send to others; and then here comes this woman, I couldn't believe it. But I was nice. I gave her my I D. and told her she was a cousin and we are trying to verify where she is buried so we can put a DAR marker on her grave. There is no head stone for her. The Knoxville Council doesn't have any records before 1900 and nobody seems to know what happened to the cemetery records; but all of them before 1900 are gone. So, my daughter tells the lady that maybe we should just go out and dig her up to see if she is really buried there. I about died. You should of seen the look on the ladies' face at the Knoxville Council office. I thought she was going to die. But then she covered herself and said sounded like a good idea to her... I really don't mind the ones at the courthouse in Galesburg either. I just make them do more if they give me a hard time or act like they don't want to help me. They are suppose to be there to serve us so I just grin and bear it. Because I will still go back every time. And I've bought alot of their documents for my records and for others. You just have to save for them. I didn't do all it once. Over a period of years. And still find I will go back and get more. I emailed the lady in question about this directly cause she said I could. I hope she reads what you put. I loved it...... Isn't genealogy fun.... I just have a ball with it. I spent all last week, with a splitting head ache, at the library looking for a Harriet Hobb's orbit, on microfilm and went through two years of paper just find out. Nobody bothered to put it in the paper. Now I wish there was a way around that? hahahahaha....... Have a great day and keep up the good work... Foxie http://www.usgennet.org/usa/il/county/warren/