Dear Cindy, I appreciate your feedback (and that of others) about research conditions in Cedar county. I understand it a lot better now. I realize I have to go there from Calif. to get anything. When you were delving in the murder files, did you see anything about an ax murder? I am still trying to find the year and locale for that one. A fellow supposedly hacked his wife and mother-in-law. Did you see if they had marriage and divorce records from the 1860s-1900? That is what I need to access. thanks for the explanation. Margie Bridges