Really, this has been drug out too long.  Suffice it to say that had it not een for the resources here, I would never have found an ancestral burial ground.  This has been an invaluable resource to me both in that search and in the searches to prove my geneaology for DAR membership.  Thanks to all who help.

C Black

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>From: Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jan 30, 2008 10:35 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Family search online
>
>My only important response is that in this, my home and very well populated
>county, there are thousands of records in hundreds of folios and ledgers
>that have not been and are not reproduced anywhere, and surely are not on
>the net.  However, we who search here know where and what those records are,
>just as you do in your home counties, and our usually free help as to those
>records has been VERY important to MANY folks.  I am satisfied that our
>genealogy groups will continue to so contribute or at least refer
>questioners to nearby professionals.  
>
>In closing, I also would suggest that such as the records of state
>treasurers, auditors, states' prisons, lunatic asylums and other such
>services very often reveal facts that, again, have not and likely never will
>appear in any source except within those offices or at the state archives.
>Those records here remain virtually untouched.  I have found some
>extraordinarily valuable and useful family information in those offices, in
>my case especially in CN, VA, MA. and Ohio.
>
>Nite, all
>
>Paul
>
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