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From: "C & K HOFMANN" <>
Subject: Re: Warum Antworten die Deutschen nicht?
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:48:48 -0700


In the US, most of the public documents are public and available for
research, but even here some little people in some government locations and
archives are very uncooperative. In the churchs it is quite another story.
Some are very helpful and some have let the old books be microfilmed and
others are exactly the opposite. It is really too bad that it is this way. I
even visited a county office in Missouri last summer where the lady had
gotten permission from the elected supervisors to throw away some of the old
public deed books as she was running out of room and didn't want to give
them to the library which has an active archive. She and her elected
uneducated and stupid officials have destroyed for all eternity some very
valuable information that could have brought enjoyment to many genealogists
and historians for years to come. So you see it is not just in Germany that
this bad attitude exists.

--
Charles Hofmann <http://www.azstarnet.com/~hofmann/index.html>; Lutheran
Genealogy URL included at this site. For German Heritage and Cultural
opportunities in the Tucson, Arizona area click on
<http://www.heidelbergclub.org&g

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