Yes, in various court houses you may find that there are boxes labeled  
with a particular ancestor's name. Sometimes these boxes will contain complete  
Estate papers, deeds, etc. Such was the case in AR of our Mason ancestor. I 
 believe this was done because all those papers took up so much space in 
the  filing cabinets that it made more sense to provide boxes and label them 
to place  on shelves. 
 
Carolyn Mason Anderson
 
 
Earlier  Fern mentioned that occasionally, pockets of information could  
be  found at courthouses that possibly existed nowhere else.

I've always  wanted to believe it could happen but was afraid it was an  
urban  myth.

Have any of you actually had the good luck to find a collection  no one  
else seemed to know of?

Alice A.

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