In a message dated 12/29/03 12:03:31 PM US Mountain Standard Time, VAROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:32:20 -0500 From: "Dave Goodman" <dmg@bcpl.net> Subject: [VAROOTS] Courthouse Experiences Thank you for your submissions to the Courthouse Experiences website. I am sure they will be helpful to anyone planning on researching at the various counties and states. I have found out that some Courthouses do read these comments and a few have made changes to correct some of the problems. Dave Goodman I hope that Hancock Co. Courthouse in Indiana has read my remarkes about the way I was treated in their courthouse and have changed the way they treat the family researchers there. By the by Hancock Co. Indiana has very little online to help any family history researcher and it has been that way for yrs. I guess there is no one of that county that cares about genealogy or who is reaserching. I will not say nothing but very lettle is available online. I do long distance research of the colonies and the Old Northwest Terr. for I was born and raised in Indian and have since moved to Arizona before I started family history/ genealogy research. It is a daunting experience. I do take my vacations to IN for research so I do get experience in the various libraries, courthouses, health offices, county clerks offices. All other counties I have visited I have been received in a friendly fashion. I just wish I had the time to visit the east coast and states where my ancestors stared our family lines.............I have reason to believe my Burton line started in VA or close to the PA /Va bountrys. Only time will tell. This is a very friendly list. Some I have been on have not been so welcoming to new listers. The disabled list is a great one and extra friendly not terrible busy but helpful. Billie Jean (Ballenger/Burton) Reese (Beej--Fireflower)

.............I have reason to believe my Burton line started in VA or close to the PA /Va bountrys. Only time will tell. Billie Jean How much do you know about your Burtons? As it happens, "Burton" as a given name appears in 1788 in my Palmer line in Mercer County Virginia, which became Garrard County, Kentucky. This name, like the Nixon name, do not appear (yet) to be family names, as was very common with that family, so we are looking for the source of those names. This Palmer family was in Buckingham County, Virginia, prior to that, and of course, that is a "burned record" county. Dang! There were, however, Burtons in that county as well. If this area is where you are looking, let me know. I understand it is a bit far from PA, but who knows where these Burtons came from, or went. Pat (in Tucson) ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237