Dear Barbara, What a brilliant idea, that never occurred to me! Thanks! The floor men are now coating our floors with polyurethane (lemon oil is apparently passe), so we've moved out to a motel--I come home (to the basement!) every day to check mail. We will finally be in the house again from Saturday evening, moving furniture on Monday, and having kitchen installed around Thursday! more updates later.... Martha [email protected] On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:59:37 -0400 balgieri <[email protected]> writes: > I have been to the Mineral County courthouse & looked at their > records. All > that they have is handwritten in LARGE ledgers, that are very > difficult to > handle. It is better to write to Charleston, but takes longer, > also you > have to send $5.00 which is non-refundable, whether they find what > you are > looking for or not. But its a thought. > Barbara > > [email protected] wrote: > > > I had the same problem (and there was a mistake on the typed > certificate, > > too--death given as a year earlier than the year on her obituary, > will, > > etc.). I wrote again and asked (pleaded!) for a copy of the > actual > > certificate, but they wrote: "We do not provide copies of > originals. We > > only have the records in our books, which does not have the > information > > you are looking for. We did not start to copy the originals until > 1988." > > I did learn from this always to specify that I would like a copy > of the > > ORIGINAL record if available--some courthouses do have those > records but > > do not automatically provide a photocopy of those. > > > > Martha Grenzeback > > [email protected] > > > > On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:36:36 -0500 "Marie Robey" > > <[email protected]> writes: > > > Can someone please tell me what I should ask for when requesting > a > > > birth or death certificates. I sent away to Mineral Co. for > birth > > > and death certificates and what I got was a typed certificate > (not > > > all information was on it) when what I actually wanted was a > copy of > > > the certificates. > > > Thanks > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.