Dan I dont know mr Paul, but shortly after I began to transcribe the 1850 copiah county census, he wrote to me asking if I might share it with him, well since I had not finished, only begun, I explained to him it was going to take a while, never heard from him again. I do know that Shirley Purvis in CS is a DAR member, my application has been finished for a year, but anyway Joyce Carney told me that Shirley might know a little about this or how to start. You might want to talk to her, also my cousin works at the Archives in Jackson, and they are expanding, noticed the library in CS is moving and wont reopen till Jan 2, but there should be a way we can do this. I would not count on any help from Mr Cartwright, for somereason he doesnt respond unless well your note says why, but he should understand, there are many of us out there who want to do many things to pitch in and do what can be done to begin this. We appreciate your help. God bless, Lynda Lindsey Montgomery AL CLASS OF CSCS "57" At 12:17 AM 11/21/2000 EST, DANJSN@aol.com wrote: >I guess we need to be aware that Paul Cartwright, Director of the >Copiah-Jefferson Regional Library, would prefer not to receive queries for >local library research from our website. His name was mentioned last week as >being of possible help in getting the Copiah County Historical Society >started. I received the following e-mail from him today. > >Dear Dan and LHill; > >If possible please notify Rootsweb Copiah Site to remove my E-Mail. > >Dear Leslie Hill, I will put your request in my pending file. > >I don't have time for many research requests due to building projects. > >I know at one point over 200 queries were listed. I can refer people to paid >researchers or can put them into a pending file which may be 3 months old at >given points in the fiscal year. Library Directors do not have a lot of free >time. > >Best Regards > >Paul Cartwright, Director > >So I guess we should honor his wishes and depend on other resources in >regards to information on Copiah County (few though they may be). > >I had forwarded him some of your e-mails to indicate the interest that people >outside the area had with regards to supporting our historical society. I >have apologized to him for cluttering his mailbox, but I only wanted him to >know the level of interest as well as the favorable comments that had been >made about his helpfulness. > >Dan > > >==== MSCOPIAH Mailing List ==== >The listkeeper is Annette Womack. >ACWomack@aol.com > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > >