Oh, you're wonderful Phyllis & Mem, we out here in the "land-
so-far-from our ancestors appreciate everything you are doing
to help preserve 'ancient' records. Someday,maybe, I'll have the time to
help someone out there. I just found out that all the
records from the county in which I live are sent 500 miles away
to Boise -- and all the people that are asking me to help them
find someone are being disappointed.
Yours, appreciatively,
in searching and re-searching,
Anita Jean FISH Gohl
Phyllis Fleming wrote:
Shelbers,
My apologies for not getting your things on to the website in a timely
manner. I have spent my extra time this week hanging around the
courthouse. The Clerk's office is moving to a new annex building
"temporarily" while the 1935 courthouse is being renovated.
For months, Mem and I have been questioning the janitors and employees
in the Clerk's office regarding the move and the whereabouts of the
records we use. Thanks to Chris Grant's visit to Shelby Co and the
research he wanted to do in the vault, I was there Friday morning when
the Clerk and the moving company supervisors came through the Clerk's
vault. Things are much more organized than I orginally thought, so I am
now breathing deeply without fear that the expansion of my rib cage will
cause some terrible crash in my environment.
Basically: Marriage records will remain with the Clerk's office in
their new temporary quarters. Court record books prior to 1900 will be
stored somewhere in Shelby Co and the Clerk will know where that
"somewhere" turns out to be. The actual papers that are stored in the
fileboxes of estate, common pleas and civil records will be moved to
whereever I can find a climate-controlled area large enough to
accomodate them. This is a tremendous relief to me, as I am a long way
from finishing my inventory!
BTW, I have found quite a few of the "missing" estate bundles stored in
the common pleas fileboxes.
P
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