Grace: First, I would go to http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/tslahome.htm and look at the Tennessee History and Genealogy section. From that area, click on "County Records" and then click again on Early County Records Available on Interlibrary Loan, your local library can access these microfiche for you (mine does it for free) and you can check for yourself if your ancestor is listed in the records. You can make copies from the microfiche or note the location of the record and asked for a copy from the Archives. Since they often have the original, your copy should be better. If your library can't help you for some reason, you could write the Archives and ask them if they would be willing to look up a particular person in a particular record. I don't know what their policy would be, but I think they would like to be as helpful as possible. They certainly went the extra mile for us. When we went on Tuesday and said we would be back on Thursday, one of the kind women who works there had the indexes out and open to our ancestors when we arrived. You probably have done all this, but just in case, I would suggest you go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tn/lincoln/lincsearch.htm and put your ancestors name in the first search engine and when it pulls up the list, you can use that information to tell the Archives folks where to look for the documents you want. They have Jane Waller's information as well as the county records, so most of what the search engine pulls up will be in the Archives. Hope this helps! Jean How do you know without going there your ancestors are the ones they have in their records? Grace ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Isom" <isomjjj@juno.com> To: <TNLINCOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 1:29 PM Subject: [LCT] Unidentified subject! > You can write to the Lincoln County Archives @ > Lincoln County Archives > 1000-B West Washington St. > Fayetteville, TN 37334 > > We were just there in March and their hours continue to be 10:00 - 2:00 > on Tuesdays and Thursdays. They were very helpful! > > Jean Isom > > > ==== TNLINCOL Mailing List ==== > Visit the LCT GenConnect system at: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/board/rw/localities.northam.usa.states. tennessee.counties.lincoln > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >