Hi, I wrote again, to Dr. Armstrong. This is his reply, Patti >From: "Fredrick Armstrong" <fharmstrong@wvculture.org> >To: "Patti McDonald" <mcd@access.mountain.net> >Subject: Re: Hampshire >Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:18:24 -0500 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 > >Ms. McDonald: > I understand and appreciate your concern for the status of the Hampshire >County records. While the legislature is in session and still has two bills >which if passed will help provide for the state's public records in the >courthouses, I am unable to devote the time to make a site visit to Romney. >I can report that the records are in better condition and more protected >than they were this time last year. After a period this winter of putting >the arrangement project on hold, I understand work is again progressing. As >I stated earlier, it is our intention to microfilm these records as soon as >the arrangement is such that the filming would allow logical research. As >the records were, it would not have been possible to film them so that >anyone could have use the film. And, to have let each interested researcher >leaf through the original papers would surely have destroyed them faster >than anything except fire or flood. Of course, the final arrangement will >probably have voids and missing records, either because they have been lost >over time as the records were relocated in the courthouse or because these >errant items are among the 100 plus feet of records removed to Morgantown. > I plan on making another trip to Romney in the very near future after >the legislative session to see where the project is. I will contact you then >and hope to be able to provide you with more concrete information on when we >may be able to move forward with the filming of these records. Please do not >consider your contacting me and requesting this type of information as >anything other than your interest in these historical records. I also hope >you will understand that my failure to respond more quickley is because I >am trying to obtain additional information and the schedule is not such that >a quick reply is possible. >Sincerely, >Fredrick H. Armstrong :) Patti McDonald Burlington WV mcd@access.mountain.net Co-Coordinator Mineral County USGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvminera/mineral.htm Subscribe to Mineral County Mailing List WVMINERA-L-request@rootsweb.com Surnames I am researching: HARTMAN, WOLFE, MILLER, FLEEK, WHITEMAN, PUFFENBARGER, FITZPATRICK, COOKUS, CORBUS, DYE, WALSH "I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say. Geronimo