I thought I would add my 2 cents on this topic. I do volunteer lookups for Eastland County, Texas, no charge, from the material I have here at home. Periodically, I have to go to the courthouse on business. When I go, I take some of the queries I have received and take a few extra minutes to look them up. If I find something, I make copies or note how the inquirer can make a specific request. I feel like in a small way I am repaying all those people who have done lookups for me and in the process learn some interesting history of the county. And I have made some wonderful cyberspace friends. Sylvia King, Cisco, Eastland County, Texas [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Clark" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 9:25 AM Subject: Re: [MODADE] Lookups > Hi List, > > But the fact still remains that there are sources there in Dade County that we > cannot get at appropriately and timely without outside help. The staff of > volunteers that you spoke of will not do look-ups at the courthouse. SO, if there > are researchers on this list who lives in the Dade County area that would be > willing to do some looking for some of us that can't readily get there and will do > it at a nominal fee or for the cost of copies, etc., then they could respond > privatley to the inquirer. You can't expect someone to make copies and mail them to > you for free. Even the library will not do that. But untill they get a staff of > volunteers to do courthouse look-ups, we have to have another outlet. > > I have read on this list that if someone is a member of the society the courthouse > would not charge a look-up fee. If the library keeps your membership a matter of > record, then the courthouse and the library COULD work cooperatively to allow a > library volunteer to fulfill a courthouse look-up received via email or smail at > the library for that requester, otherwise, the library could charge the courthouse > fee also. > > The more cooperative Dade County is with researchers the more cooperative > researchers will be with them, in addition to the fact that many out of town > researchers might find that they are so please and thankful for the efforts that > have been made for them that they might add a few extra hours to their visit and > document something that the library or the MODADE site does not have and donate it > to them. There is a photo page there, but not very many photos. I have always felt > that many photos of Greenfield and the area from the past and now could be placed > there. The site could also use a map that indicates where towns, cemeteries, > schoold, etc., are now, or were. Researchers are always asking for directions prior > to their visit. A map that shows what homesteads are now under the lake might be > useful. There are a number of things that researchers could give back if > cooperation exists. > > Bev Clark > > >