Susan, I am glad to see things have improved since I was there. I made three trips in the mid 1980's and could never find the same records twice, but the people were nice to me. I was referred to a Dr. Britton that had done research on my gg grandfather Joseph G. Mitchell. Do you happen to know if Dr. Britton is still around? He asked me to let him know if I ever found Mitchell's father for whom people had searched for about 40 years and I just found the entire line --- on the Internet - with proof from a distant cousin. One of the first records of Grayson and Fannin Counties was when Joseph G. Mitchell gave a gift to his niece, Lucinda Atchison. When I was there someone told me that for years there had been a wooden head marker where a well known, influential and well educated Indian was buried and they thought it was Joseph Mitchell. Have you heard that story? Do you have any idea where someone might have been buried in 1847? When I was there, I was told there was a lady that sometimes worked at the library and was an expert on the old homes. Do you know who she is and if she is still around? I was always there when she was not. In the County Clerk's Office, I did find the "specs" for the house my gg grandmother had built in January of 1859, but I could not find where it had been built. My daughter and I tried to find where some of their land had been, but we were not successful. Some of the most helpful people there were at the title company on the square - my gg grandmother owned the site they are on. If I had known then what I do now about title searching, I am sure I could have found much more than I did. I have a copy of "Grayson County" by Landrum & Smith, but was never told about the older one by Lucas. It seemed that "Grayson County" was mostly about people that arrived there in the 1850's and 1860's and remained there. Do you know if there is anything there on the ones that were there in the early to mid 1840's? Sorry to have so many questions for you, but you are the first person that I know of, that seems to know what is available in Sherman. Thanks for any help. Marlene