Okay, I am not whinning or complaining just wanted to make known that there were published lists of records available for Warren County. W.P.A. County Inventories One of the most important projects of the W.P.A. during the great deparssion was the "Historical Records Survey Program". In this program people were hired by the W.P.A. to inventory all records both public and private, that were of historical value. The project was never completed, and not all of the records that were inventoried are of value to the genealogist. However, where an inventory of the county records was completed, they can be very useful. Where the county inventories exist they will list all records from the inception of the county until the time of inventory. Some of the inventories were published and some were not. Pennsylvania: Warren is No 62 I believe the Warren county historical Society, The Warren Public Library sould have a copy and I am sure there is a copy in Washington DC, possibly the Mormon Church has filmed these books. I do know that there are more records than are in The Warren County Court House, it is not large enough to store everything since about 1770. That is why the storage area is being used in Starbrick. In talking to an employee at the Court House one time I got the impression that some of the records will eventually (hopefully) be computerized. Mary ---------- From: Steve or Diana Reints[SMTP:murk@pe.net] Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 12:26 PM To: PAFOREST-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Available Warren Records Dear list: Where some of us complaining? Or being negative? I am hoping to find solutions. It seems that my original issue is getting a bit muttled. It wasn't about whether people are nice or helpful, many people are and aren't. It wasn't about trying to find ways of getting information from people over the internet or seeing what the historical society can do. My concern,"not complaint", is that the records that available to the public are only fraction of what is housed. It could be because of the courthouse renovation but how would that explain that the microfilmed records are the same as the ones available at the present? We have been researching in Warren for 30 yrs from afar and what the courthouse tells us they have has been pretty consistent so I honestly don't know what to think. If there is a warehouse where there are more records, what can be done about it? I wish I didn't live so far, I would try to do something. Sometimes it takes that one record to "crack" the geneaglogy problem. I and I know others from Warren have been waiting for the one "break in the case". If there are other records in another warehouse, I would love to see them as I know some of you would. Diana