I have heard more than one story exactly like yours. I certainly wouldn't have the patience to deal with people like that, and they are in Hamilton Co. in more places than the Blegen library. Such a difference in the area of the country I now live in. Martha ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patti" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 1:07 PM 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.hamilton/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