Surveillance cameras, monitor and recorder from Costco, Sams Club or Smarthome.com are needed here with large signs about there presents as well as what the camera sees is being recorded . Sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: "kemp" <ayeh@pennswoods.net> To: <PAHUNTIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 7:53 PM Subject: [PAHUNTIN] Re: LOSS AT BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY > from Steve Kemp (volunteer at Huntingdon Co. HS a number of years) > > Don't know whether you know any of the following > > "Vouchers" on slips of paper, usually quite small, were kept by executors > of estates and guardians appointed by the Orphans Court of Huntingdon > County. They are in effect receipts to show the Court what money was spent > or received. The county courthouse had them filed alphabetically in metal > drawers, Letter A, etc., to Z, half of them in the vault in the Register & > Recorder's office and the other half in a basement storage room, and that > was just because of space problems I suppose. Someone about 9 years ago > emptied ALL the metal drawers in the basement room and took the papers all > out, probably in a large briefcase and that's the last anyone has seen > them. > > I wondered if he/she thought they were saleable as paper ephemera or wanted > the hundred year old paper itself for some private project. > > I was the one to report them missing. After that happened the county put a > lock on the door of that room, but you can get the key and work there alone > even now. > > Also, the Huntingdon County Library has since its inception shelved books > on Pa. in a "Pennsylvania Room" which is in a corner of the old section far > from the circulation desk, never monitored in any way. Most libraries have > either a sign-in book for such rooms along with restricted hours, and/or > volunteer staffing, Huntingdon never has. Lots of stuff has gone missing > out of there. People who gave a copy of their published genealogy there and > not to the county historical society may as well have left it out on the > street, because it soon goes there. > > You can share this message with the Huntingdon group list if you like. > > Hunt. Co. Historical Society MAY have some extras copies of a few > Pa.Archives volumes, you'd have to ask Nancy Shedd which ones. Sometimes > they sell extras or give them away. > > Steve Kemp > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >