Wong--you can order microfilm of he same docs you're chasing in courthouses. Check the LDS library catalog online. 
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  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



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  From: KAREN DALE [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
  Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:37:06 -0700
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  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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