This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FkB.2ACE/1108.2 Message Board Post: Briefly, no Kaufman county courthouse has burned down. The county has been fortunate that there has not been any significant loss of records since the county was created in 1848. There have been the usual loss of some pages, packets, and so on, but no wholesale loss like you find in counties where the courthouse burned and all records were destroyed. Now, it is possible that the doctor who delivered your father may have had a fire that destroyed his records before he had a chance to take them to the courthouse-- that might account for the absence of an original birth record. Justin M. Sanders