I will take this way to try and answer a question that was asked to the NC list about Bastardy Bonds. Bastardy Bonds are held in the N.C. Archives for all counties within our state. They are not indexed, but filed in fiberdex boxes by years, not surnames. I have been thinking very seriously about publishing the bonds for Orange County. It took me three complete weeks of eight hours per day to go thru all the bonds, I now feel like I know many of the Orange County women, many later married the father's of their children. At that time they were all lumped together in boxes, but in recent years have been separated and filed by years. To my knowledge the only NC Bastardy Bonds that have been published in book form is : North Carolina Bastardy Bonds by Betty J. and Edmund A. Camin. Cost of this book is $30.00 and covers the counties of: Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Bertie, Brunswick, Buncomb, Burke, Bute, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden, Carteret, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cherokee, Chowan, Clay, Cleveland, Craven, Cumberland, Granville, Moore, New Hanover, Rowan, Rutherford, Surry, and Wake Counties. Also several of the Genealogy Societies have published abstracts in some of their journals. Louise in Raleigh, NC