You will want to check with the Fort Worth Archives and make sure that they have no damage. There was a tornado this evening. Wish I were going too. sheryl John and Stephanie Devenney wrote: > I'm planning a trip to the Fort Worth archives branch and since it's the > first time I'll venture there, I'm dropping a note to ask for advice :) from > anyone who has made that trip before, and also to offer to look specific > things up for anyone who might need census or other records. I'm pondering > offering to transcribe one of the lancaster county censuses but I need to > read more on that first. Anyway I can't do a ton of extra research but if > you've got, say, a specific page or two of a specific census you'd like a > copy of, I'd be happy to copy it and mail it to you. Fort Worth is the > Southwest regional archive, so there's no South Carolina county/state > specific information there that I'm aware of -- I'll be receiving a packet > of information in a few days -- but there ought to be a copy of each census > and some military records, etc. www.nara.gov has lists of the things > available at the different regional archives, for newcomers. > > I wonder if my boss has ever had someone ask for a day off to go to the > library :P > > Stephanie