Hi, Lynn, Don't count on such people to be honorable enough to return the pages. Such people aren't honorable or they wouldn't have stolen the pages to begin with. They are nothing more than mere criminals. I was in the NC state archives earlier this year. I was using one box of files for a particular county (not Rutherford). It was an absolute mess! Many papers had been put into the wrong file folders and the folders were out of order. It was ridiculous. You'd think anyone with sense enough to go to the archives could put things into the proper file folder. The mandated system says to take out one folder at a time, putting this big pink (orange?) card sticking out in its place. Then put the papers back into the file folder and return it to where the pink card is. Duh! Some people just resent being told how to do things and refuse to cooperate. Even in a room as small as the reading room of the archives it is not possible for the employees to monitor as closely as I'm sure they would like. Anyway, that's what I was told when I called attention to the mis-filing to the employee. He thanked me for letting them know so they could fix the problem. OK, I'm getting off my high horse. Cecelia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Wesson" <lynnwess@earthlink.net> To: <NCRUTHER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [NCRUTHER-L] NC Courthouse Access > Thank you for posting this, Bill. And I would like to add that if by some chance anyone reading this board knows anything about this act of vandalism, it would be the honorable thing to do to arrange for the return of the pages that were removed. > Lynn Wesson > Hillsborough, NC > > -----Original Message----- > From: "W. D. Floyd" <wdfloyd@rfci.net> > Sent: May 18, 2005 11:00 AM > To: NCRUTHER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [NCRUTHER-L] NC Courthouse Access > > Good Morning Folks, > Do we sometimes wonder why our access to records are being taken away? Well, let me explain. The Rutherford County, NC has two rooms for the Register of Deeds Office. One has the newer records in it with all the working personnel. In the other room is all the older records with open access with no supervision. I have grumbled before about people like you and me, researchers, unshelving books and never putting them up. Today I was in there making photos of the pages in a Deed Book when I found that two pages in the book had been ripped out. In the next room is a copy machine that can be used to make copies for a dime a piece. These Deed Books are our oldest and the NC State Archives made these hand written copies of the old deeds that were placed in the NC Archives. The pages were laminated so they would last almos forever. So now rather than make a copy we rip out the pages, just great! This is the deed that was ripped out "Johnston, James / Johnston, John / Deed/E-I/34! > 1/1789" > I know that we have all seen people doing things in the Register of Deeds Offices across the state that were not "just right" and didn't say anything to them. We need to start saying something and kind of policing ourselves or we are going to eventually lose our free access to these public records. OK, I have that "off my chest" now so Thank You, Bill > > > ==== NCRUTHER Mailing List ==== > Subscribing: Clicking on one of the shortcut links below should work, but if your browser doesn't understand them, try these manual instructions: to join NCRUTHER-L, send mail to NCRUTHER-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word subscribe in the message subject and body. To join NCRUTHER-D, do the same thing with NCRUTHER-D-request@rootsweb.com. > Unsubscribing: To leave NCRUTHER-L, send mail to NCRUTHER-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word unsubscribe in the message subject and body. To leave NCRUTHER-D, do the same thing with NCRUTHER-D-request@rootsweb.com. > For questions about this list, contact the list administrator at NCRUTHER-admin@rootsweb.com > To search the archives for the mail list > visit http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/NCRUTHER/ > To search "any" list archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > > > > ==== NCRUTHER Mailing List ==== > Subscribing: Clicking on one of the shortcut links below should work, but if your browser doesn't understand them, try these manual instructions: to join NCRUTHER-L, send mail to NCRUTHER-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word subscribe in the message subject and body. To join NCRUTHER-D, do the same thing with NCRUTHER-D-request@rootsweb.com. > Unsubscribing: To leave NCRUTHER-L, send mail to NCRUTHER-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word unsubscribe in the message subject and body. To leave NCRUTHER-D, do the same thing with NCRUTHER-D-request@rootsweb.com. > For questions about this list, contact the list administrator at NCRUTHER-admin@rootsweb.com > To search the archives for the mail list > visit http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/NCRUTHER/ > To search "any" list archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ >