In a message dated 8/16/2002 4:15:37 PM Central Standard Time, oldcherub@rap.midco.net writes: > What is a google search? Bev, Google is a search engine....like Yahoo, etc. Go to www.google.com and you will find a box to type in. If your doing a surname search.....type it as follows; "john doe" and hit enter. By putting what your looking for in quotations, the search is directed to exactly the name/place your searching. Also........NEVER be afraid or embarassed to ask questions! You have no idea how many I've ask over the years and 'genealogy' people are, for the most part, really nice, helpful folks. Good luck! Lin

I really do appreciate the help I have been given in the past and probably will in the future. I just came from the Black Hills Genealogical Society for Research. I understand that we are in the process of getting a website so that people like me will begin to get some answers. I am also on the Iowa Website and have received good help there also. I'm still looking for answers. Dave, you seem to know what is availbable through the Register of Deeds or Clerk of Court offices. I have several things I am looking for. I am trying to find out if my GGGrandfather Ludwig Karl Julius, my GGGrandmother, Catherine, my GGGGrandmother, my GGrandfather Henry Julius or any of his siblings became naturalized citizens. Do I need to check with the same office? I also would like marriage certificates for GGrandfather Henry Julius and GGrandmother Anna Hallenberger; my grandfather Adolph Julius and Kittie Ann Baker. I also need to find out if there are birth certificates for Adolph and his brothers and sisters. I show Henry and Anna; Emma, Adolph, Anna Katherina, Charles, Louis, Fred, John or Alma Julius. I also need to know the cost for each of these as I may have to budget them into my budget. One of the biggest challenges I face is that there is only the mention that GGGGrandmother Julius came with the family from Darmstadt, Germany sometime in the 1850s. A very nice lady from the Society sent me tombstone readings for the Methodist Church cemetery. However, my GGGGrandmother died in Liberty, before they moved to Stitzer and was buried in an unmarked grave in a lot that was later sold to Brihl family. I don't even know that the grave still exists. Thanks to all of you who responded to my google question. Bev