The vaults are the holding places for all original or old copies of original documents. A lot of handwritten documents, war records (if they are in a family file), military awards, letters, grants, etc. You have to know that something is there that you want and then you write up a request form, submit it and wait for your appointment time. At the appointed hour you go up a very private elevator to the vault floor, pass through chain link walls and gates to the security checking. Sign for the your request, and you're shown to a private table where you again must match your pass form to your request form and sign off on it once more. You sit down and look at a cart on your left which will hold the boxes that contain each of the files you have requested. Some of the documents are placed on a suede-like book brace. You request copies of anything that you want, some are so fragile that they have to be taken to a special camera on another floor (with guard). Then you reverse the procedure to leave. For details on sources used, refer to this link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Fred & Fran Powell <fpowellsr@starpower.net> To: <NCBLADEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 8:29 PM Subject: [NCBLADEN-L] question for Dee, please Dee, greetings! Have you written on the Bladen and/or other lists of locating certain items in a vault at the GA State Archives? If so where is this vault located within the Archives? What materials are stored in this vault? How does one access this vault? I have written to the Archives staff on the web e-mail address and the reply was that I need to be more precise in my question. Thanks for taking time out of your busy day to reply. Grateful for all you have done for me. Fran fpowellsr@starpower.net

Dee, This may sound like a dumb question, but I do not know the answer so am asking whom I consider to be an expert. Would they have at the GA archives NC documents? I have never visited a State Archive so wondered. I plan to visit the NC archives this winter and wonder if they have kind of the same set up? Also, while I am on the subject of dumb questions. I know different counties formed at different time periods. If someone was born in what was Bladen County, and then part of it became another county, would the records stay with Bladen County or would they go to the newly formed county. I have been doing genealogy for about three years now, and I know this seems like a silly question, but it came to my mind the other night while I was trying to figure out some different avenues and I thought it might explain some brick walls. Would appreciate your feedback. Thanks, Sharon Dover Romanek Fax:( 305)675-8045. e-mail: PRIMARY sromanek@salisbury.net sromanek@hotmail.com Researching: Romanek, Gucwa, Dover,Shrader, Tyner, Johnston, Williams, Edge, Smith, Kirksey, DeMers, Murphy, Allen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dee Thompson" <d7777@worldnet.att.net> To: <NCBLADEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 9:46 PM Subject: Re: [NCBLADEN-L] question for Dee, please The vaults are the holding places for all original or old copies of original documents. A lot of handwritten documents, war records (if they are in a family file), military awards, letters, grants, etc. You have to know that something is there that you want and then you write up a request form, submit it and wait for your appointment time. At the appointed hour you go up a very private elevator to the vault floor, pass through chain link walls and gates to the security checking. Sign for the your request, and you're shown to a private table where you again must match your pass form to your request form and sign off on it once more. You sit down and look at a cart on your left which will hold the boxes that contain each of the files you have requested. Some of the documents are placed on a suede-like book brace. You request copies of anything that you want, some are so fragile that they have to be taken to a special camera on another floor (with guard). Then you reverse the procedure to leave. For details on sources used, refer to this link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Fred & Fran Powell <fpowellsr@starpower.net> To: <NCBLADEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 8:29 PM Subject: [NCBLADEN-L] question for Dee, please Dee, greetings! Have you written on the Bladen and/or other lists of locating certain items in a vault at the GA State Archives? If so where is this vault located within the Archives? What materials are stored in this vault? How does one access this vault? I have written to the Archives staff on the web e-mail address and the reply was that I need to be more precise in my question. Thanks for taking time out of your busy day to reply. Grateful for all you have done for me. Fran fpowellsr@starpower.net

Hi Sharon, I don't think there's any such thing as a dumb question in genealogy. We're all "flying blind". First, the Georgia Archives is HEAVY in North Carolina holdings including family files, vault records and a ton of state and county books. So many North Carolina families had relatives that at some point wandered into or through Georgia that its a super place for NC research. Plus all the DAR records (that room use to scare me to death, but I've mastered it finally!), tons of church records, immigration, etc. In a word: yes. As for the formation of the North Carolina counties: the records would have stayed in the county "of instance". For instance, if there was a marriage recorded in Bladen in 1753 and the couple lived on land in Bladen County that became Cumberland County in 1754, the marriage record would still be shown (but not always held) in Bladen County. Whatever the county was at the time is what will always be shown on the document. But keep in mind that some records are not held in the county's records, they might have been held in Raleigh and were never returned to the counties as instructed by the court. By "held" I mean the original document or a copy on file. The big problem is whether the records still exist. Fires are the enemy of all researchers. Dee For details on sources used, refer to this link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: sromanek <sromanek@salisbury.net> To: <NCBLADEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [NCBLADEN-L] question for Dee, please Dee, This may sound like a dumb question, but I do not know the answer so am asking whom I consider to be an expert. Would they have at the GA archives NC documents? I have never visited a State Archive so wondered. I plan to visit the NC archives this winter and wonder if they have kind of the same set up? Also, while I am on the subject of dumb questions. I know different counties formed at different time periods. If someone was born in what was Bladen County, and then part of it became another county, would the records stay with Bladen County or would they go to the newly formed county. I have been doing genealogy for about three years now, and I know this seems like a silly question, but it came to my mind the other night while I was trying to figure out some different avenues and I thought it might explain some brick walls. Would appreciate your feedback. Thanks, Sharon Dover Romanek Fax:( 305)675-8045. e-mail: PRIMARY sromanek@salisbury.net sromanek@hotmail.com Researching: Romanek, Gucwa, Dover,Shrader, Tyner, Johnston, Williams, Edge, Smith, Kirksey, DeMers, Murphy, Allen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dee Thompson" <d7777@worldnet.att.net> To: <NCBLADEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 9:46 PM Subject: Re: [NCBLADEN-L] question for Dee, please The vaults are the holding places for all original or old copies of original documents. A lot of handwritten documents, war records (if they are in a family file), military awards, letters, grants, etc. You have to know that something is there that you want and then you write up a request form, submit it and wait for your appointment time. At the appointed hour you go up a very private elevator to the vault floor, pass through chain link walls and gates to the security checking. Sign for the your request, and you're shown to a private table where you again must match your pass form to your request form and sign off on it once more. You sit down and look at a cart on your left which will hold the boxes that contain each of the files you have requested. Some of the documents are placed on a suede-like book brace. You request copies of anything that you want, some are so fragile that they have to be taken to a special camera on another floor (with guard). Then you reverse the procedure to leave. For details on sources used, refer to this link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Fred & Fran Powell <fpowellsr@starpower.net> To: <NCBLADEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 8:29 PM Subject: [NCBLADEN-L] question for Dee, please Dee, greetings! Have you written on the Bladen and/or other lists of locating certain items in a vault at the GA State Archives? If so where is this vault located within the Archives? What materials are stored in this vault? How does one access this vault? I have written to the Archives staff on the web e-mail address and the reply was that I need to be more precise in my question. Thanks for taking time out of your busy day to reply. Grateful for all you have done for me. Fran fpowellsr@starpower.net