Hello, I am not familiar with the history of the Morgan County Courthouse and whether it actually burned down or not. However, I urge you to dig a little deeper when you are told that a courthouse has burned down. I am the Director of the Arizona State Archives and at least 20 or 30 times a year we get letters from patrons asking us how we can help them track down alternative sources of information to help them substitute for records destroyed in a fire in one or another of our county's courthouses. In truth, NONE of our county courthouses has burned down--nor were the records destroyed in a fire. Unfortunately, some county record keepers tell patrons this when they can't find the records. In our case, many of the records have actually been transferred to the State Archives. Others are simply stored off-site in a facility several miles from the courthouse. The point of this rather long explnation is: try to find documentation that a courthouse has burned--don't take someone's word for it. You might be pleasantly surprised, as a number of our patrons are. Melanie Sturgeon (archivist and researcher of Morgan County ancestors)

In 1959 I worked for Cott Indexing Company, we Micro-filmed all the records for the Morgan County Court House, old records dating back to 1820, this is, I believe, when the court house was started. I do not know of any record of any fire. HOGWASH I think! Dave Pickenpaugh - Marblemount, WA pickenpaugh@bigfoot.com Hello, I am not familiar with the history of the Morgan County Courthouse and whether it actually burned down or not. However, I urge you to dig a little deeper when you are told that a courthouse has burned down. I am the Director of the Arizona State Archives and at least 20 or 30 times a year we get letters from patrons asking us how we can help them track down alternative sources of information to help them substitute for records destroyed in a fire in one or another of our county's courthouses. In truth, NONE of our county courthouses has burned down--nor were the records destroyed in a fire. Unfortunately, some county record keepers tell patrons this when they can't find the records. In our case, many of the records have actually been transferred to the State Archives. Others are simply stored off-site in a facility several miles from the courthouse. The point of this rather long explanation is: try to find documentation that a courthouse has burned--don't take someone's word for it. You might be pleasantly surprised, as a number of our patrons are. Melanie Sturgeon (archivist and researcher of Morgan County ancestors) ==== OHMORGAN Mailing List ====