Wanda, thanks for your comments, and did I ever get a laugh! I do believe you may have visiting my home county! And it certainly does ring true of the staff at some libraries--my hometown, to be sure! It is unreal to believe that clerks and deputies, and even library workers, sit on their hands and allow people to walk out the doors with books and records, while we try so hard to protect and handle the books and records with kid gloves because our business of family research is of such a serious nature and makes us appreciate cooperation from the very employees who are paid salaries via our tax money. On the other hand, it is so refreshing to have the staff of these county offices treat us with warm greetings and offers help to find records, etc. Maybe we should express our appreciation to the Boards of Supervisors in our hometowns for those cheerful and helpful employees and let them know that they have their jobs because of our votes and that we expect them to look after those records and the needs for those public records. This will make a good plank for someone to run on in the next county election, don't you think? Thanks for your interest. Eugenia wjclac@juno.com wrote: Per another letter regarding copy, I would like to confirm, that Sunflower Co. clerk refused to allow me to copy document also. They typed me a document and charged me $5.00 for it, when a copy machine copy would have been a much lesser amount. I went to another courthouse and found that some books were missing and that clerical staff was playing solitaire on computer and did not want to help locate book and point out the order of the filed records. But as others have said, there are more co-operative Clerks than uncooperative clerks, so we need to be very thankful for those elected people and their staff who are so willing to serve the public whether it be local voters or out of area people needing access to public records. Wanda ==== MISSISSIPPI Mailing List ==== Help yourself to some data at http://www.rootsweb.com/~mississi in the database, and be sure to leave a little for others. ============================== Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 Source for Family History Online. Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1