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Getting into the old record vault at the Greene Co. Courthouse

ancestor_hunt  (View posts) Posted: 9 Mar 2009 8:45PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: MELTON
What does it take? I just came back from Bloomfield and the records are in the basement and no body to help you!
I will pay someone who can get down there and search for me.
I need George McKee. George did research for me in Greene County when I lived in TX. George sent me great stuff from the vaults. Need help. Thanks. Carla

Re: Getting into the old record vault at the Greene Co. Courthouse

gene1403  (View posts) Posted: 10 Mar 2009 12:48AM GMT
Classification: Query
Carla: The marriages and common pleas and court records are in the clerk's office. The clerk shows you a room where you sit down and look at the indexes to view the records on micro-fiche. The birth and death records are located in the old jail on E. Spring St. The library and historical society has books on some of these indexes. You can buy a copy of a particular record at the courthouse for $1 a page, but be sure to find the book and page number in the index before you ask the clerk. When was your last visit? Our courthouse has been renovated, might be it was a total wreck when you were here before. Even I didn't do any research there during that time. Marriages, birth and death indexes are on line through local library.

Re: Getting into the old record vault at the Greene Co. Courthouse

ancestor_hunt  (View posts) Posted: 10 Mar 2009 1:00AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Thank you for responding.
I was at the courthouse in the Clerk's Office today. They told me the old records were in the basement and that some one in the Clerk's office needed to go down and hunt for them. But no one did. Wish I would have run into you. They printed out 2 marriage applications for me that they did themselves. I was not asked to go somewhere and look at micro-fiche. Maybe I'll print your post and take it with me when I go back. I live in Parke Co. but plan on making a trip back to Bloomfield again soon. I went to the Health Dept. in the old jail. Nice town Bloomfield is.
Thanks again, Carla

Re: Getting into the old record vault at the Greene Co. Courthouse

hobo_2  (View posts) Posted: 29 Jun 2009 11:02PM GMT
Classification: Query
Did you get back to the courthouse? I am thinking about a trip there in around three weeks and well, you never really know what to expect unless someone who has been there can give you a heads up. I am researching the Quillen name.
Paula G. Herron

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