>From: anderson <anderson@penn.com> >To: "'Steve or Diana Reints'" <murk@pe.net> >Subject: RE: Records at the court house. >Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:19:07 -0400 >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >Hi >I am in Warren but because I have a child with a serious health problem I >have no time for genealogy. I can tell you that there is a warehouse in >Warren. It is actually located in Starbrick (about 2 to 3 miles from the >court house). I went to a seminar given by Ronald Bremer, he claimed if >the wpa records showed they were available that they have to produce them. > The do need a time warning do not remember if it was 24 hours or 1 week. > Hope this is helpful. I would appreciate your informing me if you get any >satification. It will probably be a year or two before I can become active >again, and I will probably have to unsubsribe from my genealogy lists in >the meantime, so if you find this true I would apprecitate your letting me >know. > >It is late and am not going into the book tonight but if you have specific >questions I would be willing to try to help, can not go to the court house >now though. > >Mary >anderson@penn.com > >---------- >From: Steve or Diana Reints[SMTP:murk@pe.net] >Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 11:52 PM >To: PAFOREST-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Records at the court house. > >The last thread has hit a nerve. I was in Salt Lake at the Mormon library >they have there a few month ago and I noticed a book put out by the WPA on >all the records in Warren County. I copied a few pages and then when I got >home I compared this list to what the courthouse said it had and the >courthouse came up very short!!! The list included about four different >kinds of records for naturalizations- early ones and even more for later >ones. The courthouse only has these little card file like records, and only >one set of them. The list said that they had a group of old death >cerificates covering about 10 yrs. The courthouse didn't know what I was >talking about. They have this one list of deaths. Something is fishy >here. I am going to go back and copy more of the book. I am wondering if >they only have out a sampling of each kind of record for the public and the >rest of unattainable. I have written before and they are not very happy to >help- told me it would take a year or more to copy something for me. Maybe >this is an overall attitude about making all the records available. I live >in California but it would be nice if someone who lives near Warren could >talk to the supervisor or person in charge at the courthouse about this. > >Diana >