Fellow Listers: I agree about the lack of care shown the old documents at the court house. I just spoke with my cousin who does live in Bath Co. She feels it is a combination of several things --indifference, no training on the part of court house clerk's staff in proper preservation and MONEY. She recommended we write a "group email" to Carol Belcher, the state representative for the county and express our concerns about the condition of historical documents and the lack of proper preservation attempts. She also mentioned that the LDS church came into Bath county many years ago to film the then existing records and were allowed to do so. The church then gave complimentary copies of all that they had filmed to the clerk and that these films were simply thrown away - for whatever reason! So, I suggest that we, as a group, lobby the appropriate political entities to save the records of Bath county! Jackie ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [KYBATH] OLD DOCUMENTS IN BOXES > In a message dated 6/25/00 2:12:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > << Subj: [KYBATH] OLD DOCUMENTS IN BOXES > Date: 6/25/00 2:12:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time > From: [email protected] (Janice Chastain Lund) > To: [email protected] > > Is there no one living locally who could help preserve these old documents > mentioned below? If they don't, future generations will have nothing to > search....just wondering...Jan Lund > > > >I wish I could get a copy of that will for you in Bath County > >but..............When I get to go there I am so selfish I spend all that > time > >looking for myself. Imagine that!! > >It is a waste of time to ask those people to copy documents for you. They > >are just very indifferent to the whole idea of Genealogy. > >They are very generous with letting you stay and search to your hearts > >content............I even climbed their ladder and got old boxes of > >fragmented papers from the ceiling shelf.. and no one cared. > >If you can go there at all do so. One day the old documents will be gone I > >fear. I think that is what ahs happened to many of them already. > > > > > >> > It would be nice but its a political thing too. I remember seeing some people > who were supposed to be getting ready to photocopy the records [they told me] > if the funds were allocated. > Some of the court houses have the old records laminated...one page at a time > but, thats probably very costly and time consuming. > Wish I lived there .....I would do a lot more to staighten the records and > "Smack hands" LOL > Blessings! > Vivian >