Hi, I was told many a time by a number of people that they sent things by mail free. So, three times I requested copies of wills for DRURYs and I had the year and box numbers. They never responded. One of the times, I even made it to the attention of a particular person who was supposed to ALWAYS respond, even if it took a little while; well, that was about a year and half ago or more, Finally, someone pulled them for me (while there, I think). I had a bad experience at the Washingtonia Room of the MLK library downtown, too. I was there with my daughter and I had two objectives: the obit for my maternal ggrandfather, John Dominic Donegan and some research on POOREs in DC/Georgetown. There were two employees there. I asked for assistance in pulling the obit and the lady couldn't have been more rude. She remained seated in a chair and pointed in the general direction of some file cabinets. When I asked her specifically if it were indexed and some other info, she said I would have to figure that out! I walked out and went to GU for dame data - they were very helpful. I did receive a message from someone of some degree of authority from MLK when I wrote about it and that he could help me in the future. Well, since I can't get there too often, that isn't all that helpful... Kathleen in Ridge Manor, Florida...Genealogy - It's Relative!! katbowen@earthlink.net (Back-up: kbowen@hotmail.com) http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/o/w/Kathleen-E-Bowen http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=katbowen Girl Scouts - Celebrating 90 years in 2002! ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Boswell" <whbos@att.net> To: <WashingtonDC-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 10:23 AM Subject: RE: [WashingtonDC'' ] Re: DC Archives > That's news to me. Has it changed over the last year or two? They used to > send information by mail for free. Several years ago I used to receive > information by fax within 30 minutes, but I guess those days are over. Are > we only able to go down there and look up the information ourselves? I > moved from the D.C. area recently and can only request by mail. Maybe they > should start charging for the information. I wouldn't have a problem paying > for it. > > Bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: Baclem5656@aol.com [mailto:Baclem5656@aol.com] > Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 8:55 AM > To: WashingtonDC-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WashingtonDC'' ] Re: DC Archives > > > Does anyone know if it is possible for receive copies of documents from the > DC Archives by mail? I know for a long while they were short staff and > underfunded and were not sending out information. Has the situation > changed? > > Barbara > > > ============================== > 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 > > > > ============================== > 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 > >