Why was your response vulgar? Al Partee >From: "Kevin Kelly" <ktkelly@nightowl.net> >Reply-To: TNRUTHER-L@rootsweb.com >To: TNRUTHER-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [TNRUTHER] Re: 1821 circuit court case >Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:33:44 -0500 > >I will post to this group,the response I got. >My response cannot be posted,due to its >vulgarity > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Archives Dept > To: 'Kevin Kelly' > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 1:23 PM > Subject: RE: 1821 circuit court case > > > Mr. Kelly; > > The Rutherford County Archive has in its holdings the >circuit court records of the county, 1900 to the mid 1940's. It is not >known if the loose records of the circuit court before 1900 are still >extant. These records, however, are not open researchers as they have not >been processed, i.e. straightened, cleaned, filed. These records have been >taken out of the metal boxes in which they were stored by the court, but >not much has been done with them beyond that. We are currently working to >process the loose chancery court records which date to the early 1800's, >and is therefore a much larger project. When this project is finished we >will begin the same process on the circuit court records and yes, they will >at that time be microfilmed. The Rutherford County Archive has a small >staff and a very limited budget. Due largely to these factors it looks as >if it will be some time before we be able to begin processing the circuit >court documents. > Rutherford County has a beautiful courthouse that underwent >a major renovation in 1996. The Rutherford County Archive takes up three >rooms on the third floor of the courthouse. If you would like more >information on the Rutherford County Archive please see our web site, >www.rutherfordcounty.org/archives/ . Thank you for your inquiry and if >there is anything that we can do for you in the future please feel free to >let us know. > > > Sincerely, > > Van Zbinden > > Graduate Research Assistant > > Rutherford County Archives > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Kelly [mailto:ktkelly@nightowl.net] > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 11:31 AM > To: Rutherford County Archives > Subject: 1821 circuit court case > > > Hi Mr John Lodi or Staff, > > I received a reply from Eloise Gaither's office,"These records would >be in our archives and the gentleman who takes care of these,informed me >that it would be several years before they process any of the Circuit Court >information. > His phone number 615-867-4609. Address Rutherford County Courthouse >Suite 301,37130 > Can you please enlighten me,about whom Gaither wrote? Is the county >courthouse under renovation,or something? > Neither the LDS or Tn State Archives have any 1821 Rutherford Co >Circuit Court cases,are they even extant? > Thank you for some help and understanding. > PS,if these records(and earlier) exists,they ought to be >microfilmed and preserved. > Sincerely,Kevin Kelly,St Louis 31 year family researcher > > >==== TNRUTHER Mailing List ==== >Linebaugh Public Library >105 West Vine Street, Murfreesboro, TN >(615) 893-4131 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp