In a message dated 12/17/98 9:33:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Subj: Re: [INKOSCIU-L] Help me save these!! Date: 12/17/98 9:33:04 PM Pacific Standard Time From: [email protected] (TIAKI) Reply-to: [email protected] To: [email protected] Just curious--what counties are these from? And how did this person get them--shouldn't they be the property of a courthouse? Karen >> Karen, Records like these are all over the net. There are so many county and state archives that microfilm their records and then throw them away. I heard about a county courthouse in Michigan (I think it was) that took 5 dumptruck loads of original records to the dump!!! That's why I started collecting these materials and started the Archive. That's what the real problem is in giving them back to the county archives. It may have been the same people who threw it away! Or who is to say that they will not throw them away in the future? I wanted to offer an alternative to the records being pulled apart and sold piece by piece. Cheryl