I think the courthouses story to me was that they were sent to Indianapolis, but they didnt know where. I called some clerks office down there and they told me some were at Superior court in Hammond...which "some" are...the guy there let me look through the microfiche that theyre on, but I didnt find who I was looking for. There was another courthouse (regular clerk I think) in Hammond that had "some", but I forget what happened there. There's also "some" at the Lake county library in Merrillville...supposedly the ones that were at the courthouse were copied by NWIGS before being sent down state. In the Indiana room they have an index book, if you find the name there you ask (at reference desk) to copy the book/page number and someone will help you...the actual records are kept hidden in the employee holding room. Supposedly there are also "some" in Gary...but the guy who worked at the Gary library reference desk for years was really intrigued by my question and Im to call him back if I ever locate those. And the clerks down there wanted nothing to do with me, they're who told me to call the library reference desk. Lake county is also the worst place for all types of records because cities keep some of their records...if you want birth/death/marriage for Hammond /Gary/East Chicago...you have to go to the respective city's clerks office or health dept and fight with them personally...and I think a DNA sample is needed at the Gary Health dept to get a birth/death certificate....ok, just kidding, but it seemed like it when I tried getting my grandfathers death certificate. In Hammond I went to get a 100 yr old death record for someone, had to lie saying I was related, give as much info as possible, pay them $15...the lady took the info to a little secret backroom and came out 15 min later with her handwritten certificate that she copied from the books. The maiden name doesnt exist...I searched everywhere, there's no such name...did the lady copy the name wrong? Was it because old handwriting is hard to read? Could I have figured it out? I dont know, I wasnt allowed to view the record. So....this is pretty much some of the many reasons I am phasing out my lake county lookups and dread getting any requests for info from the Lake County Genweb page. I feel bad, but I got nuthin to work with here! Kathy In a message dated 04/18/2002 10:21:30 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > and problems with getting imigration and naturalization records I have the book and page numbers they claim the don't have those books and according to their retension schedule they do have those books I was told the books were given away and they didn't know to who I wrote each entity that they thought might have the books and no one has<