This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IiB.2ACE/720.1 Message Board Post: I also agree with you of how friendly and helpful the staff is at the Gregg County Courthouse in Longview, TX. They have helped me numerous of times. Don't know what we volunteer researchers in East Texas would do without them. I too am concerned about the preservation of the priceless old records. Once gone...they're gone.