Hi I am looking for a birth certificate on my Mother and a marriage certificate on my Grandmother from Connelsville, Adair, Mo. and I was under the impression that the court house burned down years ago and that was why my Mother could not get a birth certificate. I wrote someone who said that a courthouse never burned down in this area. Where do I go to find out this information. I have looked on Ancestry.com, Rootsweb and can never find out anything. Grandmother Ora Maud Goucher married Bert (Bertie) C. Hall 27 Jun 1904 and daughter born Rebecca Isabell (Reabell) Hall born 07 June 1906 or 1907. I would appreciate any information you can give me. Thank you, Pat [email protected] ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

You might try www.sos.mo.gov ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 6:04 PM Subject: [MOADAIR] Adair co. Mo. > Hi I am looking for a birth certificate on my Mother and a marriage > certificate on my Grandmother from Connelsville, Adair, Mo. and I was > under the > impression that the court house burned down years ago and that was why my > Mother > could not get a birth certificate. I wrote someone who said that a > courthouse > never burned down in this area. Where do I go to find out this > information. I have > looked on Ancestry.com, Rootsweb and can never find out anything. > Grandmother Ora Maud Goucher married Bert (Bertie) C. Hall 27 Jun 1904 and > daughter born Rebecca Isabell (Reabell) Hall born 07 June 1906 or 1907. > I would appreciate any information you can give me. > Thank you, > Pat > [email protected] > > > ************************************** > Get a sneak peek of the > all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Pat, Adair County, Missouri has had 3 court houses. The second Adair County, Missouri, Court house burned. Fire destroyed this courthouse April 12, 1865, and the county remained without a courthouse for 30 years. For may of these years, the public square was known as the "Park." An illustration from the atlas of 1876 shows a portion of the square filled with a geometric pattern of trees. http://www.rootsweb.com/~moadair/pictures/ThanksCraig.htm The third and present Adair County courthouse dates from the turn of the century. I believe there was a fire in this courthouse too but didn't distroy the whole building. Click here to read more: http://www.rootsweb.com/~moadair/history.htm You might try the State of Missouri. They house birth and death records. The state of Missouri is in the process of putting all birth an death records on line from 1910 (when they began) to 1954. http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ There are links to images through 1920 (will eventually all be there) and they will send you photocopies of the others for only $1.00 each! Or try The Missouri State Historical Society: http://shs.umsystem.edu/index.shtml You may have to write, but they do have many records. Try this page for links to possibilities: http://www.rootsweb.com/~moadair/resources.htm Note: Many people were born in their home and did not receive a birth certificate. Example: My father was born (1920) in his grandmothers home and did not receive a birth certificate until he was around 20, and had to have people verify his place of birth in order to get one. Best wishes, Claudia www.rootsweb.com/~moadair [email protected] wrote: Hi I am looking for a birth certificate on my Mother and a marriage certificate on my Grandmother from Connelsville, Adair, Mo. and I was under the impression that the court house burned down years ago and that was why my Mother could not get a birth certificate. I wrote someone who said that a courthouse never burned down in this area. Where do I go to find out this information. I have looked on Ancestry.com, Rootsweb and can never find out anything. Grandmother Ora Maud Goucher married Bert (Bertie) C. Hall 27 Jun 1904 and daughter born Rebecca Isabell (Reabell) Hall born 07 June 1906 or 1907. I would appreciate any information you can give me. Thank you, Pat [email protected] ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message