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From: "Kay M Sheppard" <>
Subject: Update on Hyde's flood-damaged records
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:04:18 -0600


FYI,
Thought you might like to hear about Hyde's records that were recently damaged when Hurricane Isabel swept through the county.
Kay Lynn

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Source: The Coastland Times - Sunday, Nov. 2, 2003; pg. 8A

Being sent to Texas
STORM-DAMAGED RECORDS BEING RESTORED
by Ray McClees

Records in the offices of Hyde County's register of deeds, tax administrator, and clerk of court, damaged when Swan Quarter was flooded on Sept. 18, have been sent to Texas for restoration. The county commissioners authorized the removal on October 23.
"The records have to be taken out of state in order to be freeze-dried, sanitized and restored properly," county manage Don Davenport told the commissioners. He estimated the records would be absent from their repositories for six to seven weeks.
The commissioners must give permission for county records to be removed from the place where they are usually kept, and the board gave its blessing to the project to "repair, restore, or rebind" the documents.
All of the bounty's birth and death records from 1913, when such recording began, to the present were sent to be restored, said Lora Mooney Byrd, register of deeds, along with a few marriage books and some old deeds of trust.
Persons needing information immediately from the birth or death records can obtain it from state's vital records office in Raleigh, she said.
Byrd thanked attorney George Thomas Davis, Jr. for allowing her records to be stored in his Swan Quarter law offices until a temporary office was opened. "Thank you so much for all of your help during our recent tragedy," Byrd wrote on Oct. 13, with copy to the county commissioners. "Because of your generous offer to store the records from the Register of Deeds Office, we were able to concentrate on other things. I know this was an inconvenience to you, your family and your staff, and you will never know how much I appreciate it."
Hyde County's real estate records date from 1736. Records for the past 50 years, those most often consulted, were not damaged by Hurricane Isabel's flood waters, Byrd said.


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