I have been in Wilkinson Co. Court House many times and have seen copies of the Republican, but never thought to read them. Most of the copies in the Court House are aged and very fragile. I had no idea there was such a margin of difference. As helpful as the collection has been, I agree that a disclaimer would have been appropriate. Thanks for the bit about the copies available thru FHC.

What is the FHC Is that the Latter Day Saints Church??? ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 4:08 PM Subject: [MSWILKIN] Re: MSWILKIN-D Digest V02 #101 > I have been in Wilkinson Co. Court House many times and have seen copies of > the Republican, but never thought to read them. Most of the copies in the > Court House are aged and very fragile. I had no idea there was such a margin > of difference. As helpful as the collection has been, I agree that a > disclaimer would have been appropriate. Thanks for the bit about the copies > available thru FHC. > > > ==== MSWILKIN Mailing List ==== > To contact the list admin: [email protected] > county Webpage: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mswilkin > archives: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > threaded archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > >

I have been out of town for awhile and am just getting back to reading my e-mails. the first question I want to answer is: What is the FHC. That is the Family History Centers located in most parts of the World and part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints's Family History Library of Salt Lake Center. The catalog for the FHL is on line at www.familysearch.org. The catalog list everything available at the FHL in Salt Lake. Most of the microfilm and microfich are available to rent through your local FHC. You can find a listing of most FHC at www.familysearch.org. There is also a free genealogy progam, PAF, that can be downloaded. It is the one I use. Some people send a lot of money for other programs that suit them, but this is a good program and it's FREE. When you check the FHL catalog for Wilkinson county you will find all of the marriage records, black and white, are on microfilm. All of the early inventory, deed, probate and Will books are on microfilm. These run into the 1900s and they are the original documents. They cost about $3.25 to rent a microfilm for one month. For the same amount you can extent the loan for another 2 months. If your FHC director allows you to have indefinte loan film, depending on the space available in her file cabinet, you can pay another $3.25 and have the film kept at the FHC for as long as you need it. I have been the the Woodville court house many times, especially before we got a FHC in our town, and I perfer using the film. I find them much easier to read and it's much cheaper than making a trip to MS. I still go back for a few things that aren't on microfilm, as only a few of the crimial and civil court cases are on microfilm. As for the Woodville Republician, only a few of the issues are on microfilm, these are in the 1820s. The print on this is very small and I have dificulty reading them. Thank fully, I now have Judy and her eyes to help me out. Even if you are in Wyoming, you can still research the Wilkinson county records. I don't know where you live, I lived in Gillette. They have a FHC. Virginia