Only someone who lives in or near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania could really help me with this one. I would like to trade a piece of genealogical work I need done for some work I am able to do. I am short on cash and long on ability to go to the local libraries and government offices, cemeteries, etc. I need a copy of the probate file of my great grandfather, Charles L. Moore, who died I think January 20, 1920, in Philadelphia, and lived at 5222 Webster Ave., in Philadelphia, in a house he owned and where his wife lived for awhile. I have the exact date. I'd also like a copy of the deed for the property; that probably actually means two deeds, the deed for him buying the house (may actually have been bought by his wife, Carrie B. Moore, whose maiden name ws Dehart and who most likely bought it with her family's money), and the deed when his widow sold it. For that matter, there could also be a record in the deeds office of when he died and the property was tranferred to her. I don't know when the property was purchased, sometime between 1900 when the family was in Wilmington Delaware for the census, and 1908 when they are at 5222 Webster in the city directory. I know it was sold when my father was little. My father was born in 1919, a year before Charles Moore died. He used to walk the five blocks from his house to her house, so he can't have been THAT little. I know that it is possible to do business through the mail with the office in Philadelphia that keeps these records - sometimes. They do have a moderately expensive adn problematic two-step process. I see alot of reports on the PHILLY-ROOTS lists of people having a hard time getting records from there and people who got told the office doesn't ahve records that in fact were there. I have neither the cash nor the time to mess around with them. I live in Austin, Texas, have access to the government records here and to the census, BMD and land records for teh entire state that are at the state library genealogical department. Austin is in the Hill Country, and in Travis County. I also have access, at the state library, to the complete census through 1910, though indexes only through 1870, which means for someone living in a city after that I need their address or location on the census film; also many FTM CD's and PA Dutch church records, though not all of those that are published. They also appear to have alot of New England records on CD, though since I researched my New England ancestors while living in Buffalo, NY, I've not looked at it. They appear to have some of the New England reference sources as well. I am hoping to trade some work with someone who needs some Texas research done; or with someone who needs some census or other work that I am able to do with what I have access to done. I kind of have a time deadline; I want to find collateral relatives of this family before the death of my father, expected in about three months. Yours, Dora __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail � Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/