I am quoting from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and belief this reflects the feelings of most parishes and diocese - "All general Genealogy requests received by a parish are to be forwarded to the Archives for a repy. HOwever, parish may do there only genelogy research. A researcher is NEVER to be given direct access to the sacramental registers; all research MUST be done by a staff person. The parish may also charge whatever fee they consider reasonable for this service" As you can see - OGS could not get into the records except by act of God. Sorry, no can do. At 11:48 PM 10/22/97 -0400, you wrote: >I am among the frustrated who have tried to obtain records from St. Mary parish. I have gone through the Diocese of Columbus, the Catholic Record Society and the parish office itself, but no luck. I would like to see if I can find some missing information from the years 1850-1867. > >Does anyone with the Fairfield County Chapter of OGS carry any clout with the folks at St. Mary's? Might they allow one of you responsible historians to examine the records? I no longer live in Lancaster and am at a point where I would be willing to pay someone for their time and trouble to check the parish records for information that I hope would be found among them. > >Thanks, > >Sheila Rider ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> ><HTML> ><HEAD> > ><META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> ><META content='"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=GENERATOR> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I am among the frustrated who have tried to >obtain records from St. Mary parish. I have gone through the Diocese of >Columbus, the Catholic Record Society and the parish office itself, but no >luck. I would like to see if I can find some missing information from the >years 1850-1867.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Does anyone with the Fairfield County Chapter of >OGS carry any clout with the folks at St. Mary's? Might they allow one of >you responsible historians to examine the records? I no longer live in >Lancaster and am at a point where I would be willing to pay someone for their >time and trouble to check the parish records for information that I hope would >be found among them.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Sheila Rider</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> > Carol Swinehart cshart@greenapple.com Listowner of Fairfield County, Ohio Mailing List at: OHFAIRFI-L@rootsweb.com Stop by the Fairfield County,Ohio Webpage at: http://www.greenapple.com/~ksmith or the Fairfield County, Ohio GenWeb page at: http://www.greenapple.com/~ksmith/que.html