Some data is being transmitted over the internet about the burnt Brown Co,Oh records. The data is undated. I DO "NOT" know all the facts, but others here likely do. The data being spred mentions Ripley,and the Historical Society there. I gues,today,there are 2 historical societies in Ripley-the 2nd trying to preserve black underground RRer,and iron founder,John Parker's home. There is a recent book about him Ripley might have been the Brown Co county seat a year about 1818, but from 1820,Georgetown is the county seat. It was about 1970 that an arsonist set fire to the old Brown Co courthouse in the middle of town. And a lot of the old records were damaged some, but saved by volunteers. .The Brown Co genealogy soc , Ye Old Stone Jail,Courthouse Square, Georgetown seems to be the organization called the Ripley Hist Soc in the article with errors. One,or more of their active members of that era is on here. I know those old records were stored someplace in Georgetown-my mother visited them. And the Brown Co Gen Soc LIBRARY IN Ye Ol Stone Jail, has a copier,and would have been the place to get the damaged records copied. [Times I was in the library,they still had several prison cells intact-the very ones used by "your" anscestors!]/ Anyway,the article being distributed is undated. There was once a building used to store the old records. The courthouse has been repaired, and other buildings built in the years since. I have no idea if there is yet a seperate building holding old records I heard my mother mention said building in the 1970's. I have been active daily on-line in BROWN Co Genealoy since Jan,1992, and do not remeber hearing,since 1992,anyone mention said building. Georgetown has an active,and large Morman congregation. I would think they would have made copies of the most important data before the fire. Carl Thomasob's 1970 history has some records from before the fire. 1795-1818 Brown Co was in Clermont and Adams Co. Adams Co had a courthouse fire 1910. Clermont has good records, but is missing marriage records of 1808-1811 . Aberdeen,se most Brown Co had 2 "marrying J.P." for years. Pat Donaldson Mills placed much of Thomas Shelton,JP's records in the MASON cO,kY Hist Soc Library,Sutton St,Maysville, Ky, but Massie Beasley J.P.'S THOUSANDS of marriages are thought lost. There is,on-line OHBROWN-L people who can expand on the burnt records, but,I'm afraid the erronious [?] post will haunt the Ripley Historical Society for years.Ripley has,or at least had before I got shut-in nursing 10 years ago,a nice antique Mall inthe old piano factory . ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.