For many years my research on my Reed family has been centered in Belmont County. My 3rd gr. grandfather, David Reed, died there in 1815. Since there are no census records for Ohio in 1800 and 1810 and he died in 1815, really difficult to find much info on him and his family. A professional researcher provided me with the info that there is a file in the Belmont records entitled "David Reed Estate, file #197". Researcher reported that she was at the Belmont court house and staff would NOT pull this record for her. I spoke to a very nice person in the Probate division in the court house. She told me that this record would be among those stored in the attic of the court house. They don't have time to go there very often (for researcher) to look for such files, and they will go there when they can-might be a couple of months, or more. I need to send a written request, which I will do immediately, and hope to get the file when they have time to go to the attic to search for it. I cannot fault the nice person who talked to me-no doubt this situation existed before she came to work there, but a shame this has had to happen. I just hope that the file can be found and that it is legible after all this time-file probably made in 1815/16. Maybe I am lucky it is in the attic of the court house (I hope) and she was able to tell me where she thought it was. Doris Reed Forsyth