I, too, accessed court papers on a forebear's misdeeds and i agree, to request a copy through NAS can be a very expensive business. If you can find the references for your particular documents in the NAS catalogue, I'd be tempted to pay a local researcher to go in and look up the required documents and arrange for copies - he/she could ask for them to be posted direct to you. It might even be possible to request that they be digitised rather than printed - a cd bearing lot less postage than a bundle of papers. If i remember correctly, you can get them printed there and then if it is under 20 pages, 20-40 pages they send them to the print room which means picking them up a few days later, over 40 is an out-of-house job and comes by post. Mine was a small bundle of 60+ pages within a bound box. They'd insisted they'd have to film the lot - £250 incl. post, they reckoned. I was fortunate as I live in Scotland and decided I could afford a short holiday there for not much more than they were asking plus get the benefit of getting a lot more research done at the same time. my papers cost c.£35 and were well worth the money. They were a mine of info, however, i've since discovered there are even more on the case i can access - next time I'm in Edinburgh. :-) hope that is of help le durachd fionnghal > For those who can't get to Scotland, > although the National archives won't do research for > you, they will respond to specific queries, so you can order records if you find something of interest on their catalogue. > However, you may get more than you bargained for - > the bankruptcy > file on my gtgrandfather turned out to be 165 pages > in a bound volume, they had to film it and print from the film at as I recall a pound a page! A rather pricey exercise, and one I __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com