Dear Susie:Thank you for identifying the "Chancery Room". The case I was looking for was identified in Chalkley as "Circuit Court Causes Ended. Sheffets Administrator vs Rankins Administrator: O.S. 357; N.S. 129". I asked the clerks in the Will/Deed office how to find this and they sent me over to the "Chancery Room". I asked the nice woman as the reception desk how to find this. She put her finger to her head, saying "I think I know exactly where that is." She then lead me to a small back room with stacks and stacks and stacks and stacks of old boxes [probably measuring about 12" x 17" x 4" each would be my very rough guess -- I would also guess there were easily 400 boxes within my direct line of vision] She pulled out one which contained the above case (plus many. many others). All the documents were very, very old. Folded, wrapped with twine or ribbon in some cases. Sounds like I hit this on a lucky day. I would understand quite perfectly that the stacks and stacks and stacks and stacks of boxes in this room could not be practically or economically microfilmed. I don't know the rules about access to those files. I have to say that I was thrilled that they are kept safe. I was standing there holding in my hand a letter written on May 11, 1811 by my gggggg grandfather, David Dryden Jr to his sister. It was an amazing experience -- almost surreal -- to hold the actual paper, see the slightly fading ink, look at his handwriting [quite beautiful, actually]. I was grateful it was there. Norman, I don't know the protocol for people traipsing into the "Chancery Room". I know the clerks in the Will/Deed rooms were nice and helpful. This was clearly a working office. Lots of people pawing through the Will/Deed books -- but I presume most of them were perhaps Title Researchers. [None of them shouted out 'Come here, Sam, here's Thomas Berry's 1775 deed. :>)] Clearly my husband and I were the only 'genealogy people' there that day -- with our befuddled faces and slow reviews of many different Will/Deed books and constant checking of the main Index. The office staff couldn't have been nicer. The same holds true for the 'Chancery Room' staff. No one was in there pawing through those boxes. I don't know how many befuddled Seattle people come through the Chancery Room, but they were also most helpful. I would take Susie's advice and contact the Historical Society for another researcher. I wish you the best of luck. Carol VassKent, WA