This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WASHBURN, CAVANAUGH, CORN, MORMAN, BRADBURY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BMB.2ACE/1071.1.2.1 Message Board Post: A correction---I am on the Washburn mailing list---and also on the some MO lists--which is where I've been offered some professional research help from a certified genealogist with credentials. I'm interested in hearing from others who have used a professional and were happy with the research--whether positive or a negative "no find." And, of course, the fees. Research seems to be a field in which the cost could rise unless something is found quite quickly and easily. With the Civil War destruction, followed by Courthouse fires in MO, I'm skeptical that if I have not found something yet in transcribed online records, what else is there? Thanks--Audrey