This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McGill, Sage, Nelson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4g.2ADE/1756 Message Board Post: Has anyone ever been to the Knox Co. courthouse to search for records? They wouldn't let me search the records myself & said each time they looked up a record it would cost $5.00. Then from that record they had to go to another record which was 2 records for each person. Aren't these public records?