--part1_78.983aa89.26da633a_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Alice, Thank you very much for your response to my problem at the Delaware Co. Court House. Sometimes I wonder did I so or do something wrong but with all the stories my students have told me over the years--I know it's not me--I know it is them! About the Lancaster County Mennonite Historical Society, how & where could I contact them? happy hunting, Helen (DCGS) In a message dated 8/27/0 12:13:18 AM, louiseb@lancnews.infi.net writes: << Helen, you weren't the only one treated badly by the clerks at the Delaware County Courthouse in Media. I was there a few years ago and they definitely made me feel like a crook because I wanted information from the Register of Wills office. It was clearly a public record. I was looking for a will or intestate records for Thomas TUCKER, ca 1800. I definitely got the impression that the records were theirs and I couldn't have them. I would have thought by now, with all the genealogical research going on, that they would have loosened up. I have never had the trouble researching anywhere in this tri~state area than I have had in the Delaware Co. Courthouse and I have been researching for the past 30 years. Here in Lancaster County, PA, you can go into the Archives at the Courthouse and where they keep the Deeds, you can find Veterans records. I found recorded in a very tattered book my father's name as well as my uncles, who all served in World War II. My father's war records were destroyed by fire at the national level and this was the only way, besides newspaper accounts of him and his brothers being in the war together, that he had to prove he served during the Second World War. He needed proof of his service to obtain his veterans benefits. I don't know what can be done to make the records more accessible in Delaware County. Perhaps the PA State Archives in Harrisburg can help you with this problem. You said in your email that you conduct Genealogy Workshops. The reason that I mention this, the Lancaster County Mennonite Historical Society is always looking for speakers and instructors for their Genealogy Conference they have in the Spring. If you would be interested contact the society for more information. Alice Beard >> --part1_78.983aa89.26da633a_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <louiseb@lancnews.infi.net> Received: from rly-yd03.mx.aol.com (rly-yd03.mail.aol.com [172.18.150.3]) by air-yd04.mail.aol.com (v75_b3.11) with ESMTP; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 00:13:18 -0400 Received: from blount.mail.mindspring.net (blount.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.226]) by rly-yd03.mx.aol.com (v75_b3.9) with ESMTP; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 00:12:55 -0400 Received: from lancnews.infi.net (A020-0101.LANR.splitrock.net [64.196.128.101]) by blount.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA01924 for <HMWEBBER@aol.com>; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 00:12:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39A89558.178EF000@lancnews.infi.net> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 00