In a message dated 8/26/00 7:36:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, HMWEBBER@aol.com writes: > P.S. There are even more stories but I think I got my point across! :) Quite a story....thanks for sharing your experience; how frustrating! It does make me glad all my PA ancestors packed up and left for other parts of the country after the Civil War.....they ended up in Kansas, and the genealogical help you get from local governments in Kansas is to be applauded. Those folks can't do enough for you. A Recorder of Deeds in Harper county even copied and sent me a copy of a 1931 will of the sister of my gt grandfather two months after I had visited there, only because she remembered my card that I left her. Oh, yes, I had found all the family deeds and farm locations, and was allowed to remove the pages and xerox them at the county courthouse. Like you, I could tell more, but mine would be all positive! Ray in Las Vegas, NV