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: ----------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html