If anyone is ever at the Carnegie Library or the museum, IF you happen to
see among the attic-leavings a family Bible for a POTTS, or MAHONEY, or
FARRIS family, could you send me an e-mail? My mother said that there was
apparently a huge family Bible (she doesn't remember which family) in which
names and dates were written. She thinks it may have been destroyed in some
fire, but isn't sure. Thanks in advance.
Connie Ostrowski
----- Original Message -----
From: <JCBrooks(a)aol.com>
To: <INDAVIES-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 08:42 PM
Subject: [INDAVIES] Daviess County Museum
In a message dated 11/30/2003 4:51:07 PM Pacific Standard Time,
Plattshirl(a)aol.com writes:
> Right now, they probably have no clue that this
> stuff is so important to their ancestry!
>
Last time I was at the "museum" there wasn't as much genealogical as I had
hoped. A file cabinet of newspaper clippings...the rooms were sort of
organized
into a school room, etc. But the biggest problem is that it looked
like
everyone in the county had dumped the "memorabilia"...and just cleaned out
their
attics. Probably 20% of the stuff would make a better display.
It's an
overwhelming amount of stuff and way too much for the location..not to
mention
that
much of it may not all have real historical value.
Huge job. And how do you get rid of donated stuff? Big problem.
On the other hand, the Carnegie library downtown Washington is wonderful.
There are many private collections of information neatly categorized.
Everyone be sure to understand that neither the Museum or the library has
the
primary source materials from the courthouse. They are still
there...and
have been microfilmed as well.
Michele
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