>If an effort could be made to organize the rooms maybe then an ad could be >put in the local paper calling for any info to add, like maybe Bible >records or > church records. Would that be too goofy to ask? I'm not sure what the >protocol for something like that would be. Bible records and church records are not official records and should not be in the courthouse. The problem is they can't take care of the records they are charged with taking care of now. Those records should be in the library and on the MSGenWeb page which already has some of both and are looking for more donations. The web is really a better place for them since people can access them from anywhere in the world instead of having to go to that room. I am also trying to reconstruct marriage records burned when the Yankees burned the Tippah Co. Courthouse during the Civil War. While those records from the counties beginnings about 1836 to July 28, 1858 went up in smoke 331 of them have been reconstructed. By the way, the person who wrote the original message in this thread wrote it from the Tippah County Rootsweb page and it was gatewayed into this list. Since messages from this list is not gatewayed back to that list, that person is not seeing these messages unless he/she is on this list. Fred