This is very sad. Has anyone complained about this to whomever is in charge at the
courthouse? I tend not to suffer in silence. :)
Dixie Koenemann
Peggy and Del Fast <pjfast(a)academicplanet.com> wrote:
Jan,
I see you have had the same experience as we had in attempting to see death
records at the Peru courthouse! Frauline clerk with her Gestapo tactics
was not a pleasant event in a trip to find records of great grandparents!
It is a shame that a person so uncaring has that position. We had to fill
out a form come back hours later and then wait again before we got very
minimal info on date of death and cause. It was all I could do to not lose
my cool and tell her what I thought, but realized it would do no one any
good and politely thanked her and left quickly!! She gave no sign of being
friendly or helpful and seemed to resent even being asked to do anything.
Maybe she will retire soon! Keep hoping.
If you think she is bad, try going to the Huntington, IN library and try to
do research in their genealogy section!! You can look at ONLY one file at
a time and the person in charge has to know exactly what you are looking for
and looking at. She must be a sister to the lady in Peru or took training
at the same place! These stops were on the same day.
Fortunately the court records clecrks are from a different mold and we had
very good help in that office. They even gave us a key to the old records
basement, showed us where to look and left us alone to find, remove, copy,
and replace the originals in. That made up for the rest of the day.
The historical society records person was very helpful and helped find
things we were looking for.
Have a good day, and happy searching!
Del Fast
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Subject: [INMIAMI-L] Death Data in Miami Co.
> I wrote: >>Has anyone ever had any success getting to see death records
> at
> the courthouse, by the way?<<
Barb: I wasn't sending for them, I was trying to look at the records in
person.
The operative word there was SEE - I have been to the courthouse several
times but the death info cannot be seen by the public, and must be
"Searched" by
a clerk who doesn't appear to try very hard to find anything. A mere
riffle
through the pages and she says "Nope, not there."
As she is the one who would presumably be filling any mail orders, I don't
hope that the documents I seek will be found that way, either. In my
experience
I find a lot of things in old records by patient searching page by page,
looking for misspelled names, misfiled papers, etc. I don't expect anyone
else to
take this time.
Marriage and birth records elsewhere are accessible but this is her
department and is off limits to the public.
I know the exact death dates from other compiled VR records, and
gravestones,
and they died long ago, so no danger of ID theft. I want to see if the
death
records will give more details than I have. I have searched all
contiguous
counties in case they died "over the line".....and they didn't.
> Jan Hall
>
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