Hello Barbara, I went to New Lex yesterday. Trying to find out who the Father of Henry Griffin (married to Sarah Rush) is. As you might remember, I was able to find on the 1860, Perry County census Allen Griffin (my grandfather) as a child of Henry and Sarah. Trekked up to the door of the archive building and it was closed. Went to the court house to see why. The lady that takes care of the records was not in that day so it was closed. Oh well! I made the most of the day by going through marriage, birth and land records. A lady by the name of Mary was very helpful and took the time to talk to me about the past records of Perry County. She said that the archive records in New Lex are not indexed yet. The old, old records are still at OU. They are in the process of micro filming the records in the court house (births and marriages) so they can send the old books to the archive building. (probably so they can be shoved in a box someplace along with everything else.smile Anyway, I did look at the copy of the recording of the marriage of Henry and Hannah thinking that the transcribed reporting to Latter Day sight may not have been transcribed correctly. It was and very clearly written is the strange surname of Hannah. Mary said that (of course) the person who married them probably didn't spell her last name correctly. I had some copies made of a lot of material pertaining to Hannah and Henry. George Griffin was Henry's admin. after his death sometime after 1849 or 50. I would like to send you this stuff to you if you are interested. There is a Michael Griffin mentioned in these legal documents also. This Henry seems to have come from Va. because of some mention of land that was in dispute in Va. that had to be settled after his death. Some of the land in dispute was in Saltlick, Perry Co. Also, a land grant from the US (President Jackson) to Henry. Included in some of the copies I made is George Griffin's filing of settlements after Henry's death. A lot of Perry Co. names and Va. names are mentioned in all of the documents. Let me know if you are interested or not. If so, I'll be glad to send you copies. Sherole Barbara & George Grenier wrote: > Same hours as the courthouse, 8-4 or possibly 8:30 AM The archives is in a > separate building just a down the street a bit closes for lunch 12-1 or > they did the last time I was there. And they also closed on Friday--that > may have changed. And sometimes I have been in a courthouse when an office > closed for lunch! Once in Harrison co in the probate court, they told me > they were closing for lunch because one of the clerks was out sick, leaving > only the two of them. I thought but didn't say it out loud "why the heck > don't you take separate lunches?" Seems to me locals might have business > to do on their lunch hours in that court or any. > > Athens has Perry Co records which were sent there before they opened the > old armory for the archives. Or did. Did they send them back? Athens, > Ohio University has the regional archives. > > Your Kauterman is probably my Kattermans/Cottermans/Kadermans--just a guess. > > Barbara > Brea CA > > At 06:05 AM 7/10/02, you wrote: > >Hello- > > > >I am temporarily in the Hebron area and wish to research my family. Are > >records kept in new Lexington? Does anyone know the hours of their archives? > >Thank you. > >Melinda Seyler > >Researching Edmund, Stevens, Shrider, Rarick, Weimer, Neel, kautermann. > > > > > >==== OHPERRY Mailing List ==== > >*** Perry County, Ohio Resources: *** > >Perry Co. Ohio USGenWeb: http://www.PerryGenealogy.net/ > >Genealogy & Historical Info for Perry Co.: > >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tfisher/tefishermain.htm > >OhioBicentennial.com: http://www.ohiobicentennial.com/ > > ==== OHPERRY Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from OHPERRY-L, send mail to OHPERRY-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word unsubscribe in the message subject and body. To unsubscribe from OHPERRY-D, do the same thing with OHPERRY-D-request@rootsweb.com.