This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hFB.2ACE/1749.1.2 Message Board Post: Rod, The folks at the courthouse in Mason, Michigan are not genealogy friendly in person. I have been ignored more often than not in my 2-hour stints there. (Often waiting for personal conversations to be finished.) After traveling 600 miles and waiting my turn it's disheartening. Is it any better if you ask for records by mail/email from there?