01 April 2014

Whose Rarely Used Records?


From a 1915 issue of Genealogy, A Journal Of American Ancestry:

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After I had driven fourteen miles over the mountain trails, last summer, to a Virginia County seat, I met the white-haired county clerk.  "Good Lord, man," he said, "I've been yere in this office forty-two years, and yer the second pursohn that's been yere in all that time to look at them records."

2 comments:

Carol said...

WOW, what a great find in the papers. Thanks for sharing it!

PalmsRV said...

I was reminded of the time I went through probate files in Roscommon Co., Michigan, and was told I was the first person to use the records in 10 years! Cathy