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