Perhaps a lazy clerk? Write to the Archives. Perhaps someone over there will be awake. Gene Stackhouse "24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not."Stephen Wright >From: "Kay Davis" <kaydavis2@hotmail.com> >Reply-To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com >To: PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Phly-Rts] Orphans Court question >Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 08:08:00 -0700 > >Hi, >I hope somebody can help me. From a microfilm of original records entitled >Wills (and probate records) I obtained the dates and file numbers for an >individual who died in 1889. With that information I wrote to the Register >of Wills at the Phila. City Hall to obtain copies. Yesterday I received a >reply that stated there was no record for this person. > >Does anyone have a clue why there's a listing in the index but no file? > >Thanks in advance, >Kay in California. Researching HANLINE, STURGIS, TULLY, COWDEN in >Philadelphia > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get a FREE Web site, company branded e-mail and more from Microsoft Office >Live! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/ > > > >********* >Visit the threaded archives of this list: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS >********* > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message