Thank you, Frank! ...eek....7 months and several phone calls. Ok, I'll call again to both of them. I always do send them a nice donation along with a SASE, I hate taking advantage of them like that. So ok...I can see I have my work cut out for me in calling. They should just computerize it and milk it like the rest of the genealogy sources lol Thanks again! Liz In a message dated 5/5/2005 4:04:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > > > If you request something from the Archives Office NYC, you have to pay > whether they find a record or not. Many of the people doing the searches at > the church are volunteers doing many things besides looking through the > registers. Keep in mind, many of these parishes are quite poor &can use the > money. > >