This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QUB.2ACE/1073 Message Board Post: Okay..I don't know how to respond to all the nice folks who responded to the original query I made at the Rootsweb.com mailing list. It's very confusing!!!! But thanks to all of you for your prompt responses and advice! I remembered that I knew the recently retired head of the NC Dept. of Archives, so I called him, and he gave me the name of the curator I should call....will do so tomorrow! He said to ask the curator what he thought about having them kept at Archives......and making copies for family members....these were in my aunt's possession, and I had just asked for permission to copy them, but seeing the condition they were in prompted me to seek info from this board. Thanks all!!!