I can understand them not wanting the old record book on a copier. I've worked with old records and I know what can happen due to excess use and large books are hard to handle without damage to paper. Take your camera. Get close to the page when you take a photo and take more than one photo in case one is bad. Concerning access to old records, public offices can refuse use due to condition BUT usually things are already on film. They can charge a small fortune for them doing photos as they do in MI. Then you want a month or so to get them and have NO digital back up. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patti Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 1:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OHHAMILT] Naturalization records Kay, Just an FYI.... If you plan to visit Blegen in person, be sure to call and see if someone will be there and available to pull them (Naturalization and other records) that day. My mother and I went there some time ago, to look at our ancestors Naturalization. We called, took the day off and happily went on our way with great anticipation for seeing the record in person. Well...the head honcho was there and very argumentative. He said he had no time for public researchers and no one had time to waste pulling records for us. It was so bad we argued that we called and were told that we could come down and research, etc. He said, well I guess you can have a few minutes if you want to look at one of the reference books (next to us on a shelf). He was not going to have records pulled and besides the particular ones (Naturalizations) that we wanted to see were in extremely brittle condition and we wouldn't be able to see them anyway. After again arguing about our right to see these PUBLIC records he finally said he would have someone get it. The book came up in excellent and beautiful condition. We then asked for a photocopy. He said No. So I took up about a half hour of his time slowly handwriting the entire record out by hand. The photocopy would have been just a few minutes. This man was very uncooperative and should not have been in charge of public records. I suggest that you take a digital camera in case you have this same man or the like. I just wanted to mention this, so you could prepare as best as possible if going in person. We are going to go back and try again for a copy and if not we will take a photo of it. Does anyone know our legal rights to these public records? ~Patti ---------- > > Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 17:04:37 EDT > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OHHAMILT] Naturalization records > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII > In a message dated 5/3/2008 10:14:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Where would I find Cincinnati or Hamilton County naturalization > records.? > He > would have done this between 1860 and 1880. > Kay Weber To contact the List Administrator, send an email to: [email protected] Did you miss a message? You can find it in the list's archives here: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/OHHAMILT/ Don't forget--there is also a message board for Hamilton County: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ohio.counties.hamil ton/mb.ashx ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.14/1425 - Release Date: 5/9/2008 12:38 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.14/1425 - Release Date: 5/9/2008 12:38 PM