Karen... another phenomenon that I have run across are county genealogy
centers have gone under or never existed.  Case in point recently I tried
to locate several people from a couple of the very old counties in
Virginia.  One even had a website but guess what, their phone number had
been disconnected and the person listed on the site to email, was a dead
link and mail bounced back.  How can you research in counties that don't
take pride in even keeping their history centers open or manned?  You would
think those early historic counties would have an abundance of information
and materials but not available to share with the general public?

LDS centers only have what people submit to it and much is old research
unlike original documents that can be obtained from places I mention above
which are becoming scarce in themselves?

Eric



Original Message:
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From: KAREN DALE [log in to unmask]
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:37:06 -0700
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] genealogy popularity


Several people have commented that they lack the money or energy to travel
to courthouses, etc. So do I. I live in in the backwoods of Colorado, not
even close to a good genealogy library--the one in Denver which probably
doesn't have material on my southern families anyhow. But I am lucky enough
to live near a number of LDS Family History Centers (the nearest about 30
minutes' drive)--and I order microfilm and order microfilm... I have
uncovered astounding documents that overturned all the earlier versions of
a family with one simple phrase in one deed: "my son Elijah..."  No one
else had ever bothered to read those deeds. I sat at a microfilm reader in
a little town in Colorado and redid history. 



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