Tootsie, You mention court cases--they would be in her series of Minute Book Abstracts. I was in Romney this last summer doing research and made note of a few cases in her Minute Book Abstracts at the county library. I then went to the Courthouse up the street to discover that the old Minute Books were stored in the basement and had to be ordered, since they had no one to go down and get them on the spot. When I received them in the mail, I discovered they contained no more than what Horton had included in her abstracts. Indeed, she seems to have copied them verbatim from the Minute Books. Whether the actual transcriptions of the court cases exist, I cannot say, since I haven't called the courthouse to inquire. The courthouse does have old land records and old wills, not all old wills, unfortunately. Some are missing. When it was heard, during the Civil War, that Union troops were headed for Romney with the intent to destroy courthouse records, the primary effort was put into saving land records, since those were considered the most valuable. Some records that were taken away for safekeeping by the local citizenry were not returned. When I said that the courthouse has all records from 1866 forward, that did not mean that they had none earlier. They have no earlier birth & death records, and only one earlier marriage book. They have other types of records from earlier periods, but some are missing. Presumably, when the Union troops found the hidden records in the caves at Luray and began their destruction before a Confederate detachment arrived to stop it and save the remaining ones, any land records and wills that cannot be found now were probably among those destroyed there. All the county birth, marriage, and death indexes up through 1966 or so are on microfilm at the LDS. Copies of the microfilm are also available at the county library. Elaine