I have visited Woodville, MS and spent a little time in the library but not in the courthouse. Most of my research of early Wilkinson Co., MS has been conducted using the films held by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. (Thank goodness for those films which frequently preserve records which are no longer available to the general public.) This is one of my experiences. I knew from Nicholas Murray's (Hunting for Bears) published indexes of Wilkinson Co. marriages that my Scott ancestor (male) from Feliciana Parish [before it became two parishes] had married a girl across the State line in Wilkinson Co. As I was considering joining a lineage society on that fellow's father, who was a patriot in SC [a sergeant], I wrote for the marriage record. What I got back was an altered 20th century marriage record with the names inserted. Later, as I had more leisure, I ordered a number of Wilkinson Co. films to my local FHC. What a surprise--here among the many records was my Scott fellow's marriage bond, with a LOT more information than the *official* record which I received from the Wilkinson Co. county clerk's office. The minutes of the probate courts are wonderful, although the loose papers of the probate packets