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From: Shelley Murphy <>
Subject: Re: [NCMECKLE-L] Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:39:29 -0500
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Has anyone came across the name of William Davis in Mecklenburg.
Thanks
On Mar 20, 2005, at 8:52 PM, Gail Honeycutt wrote:

> I would like to thank everyone who responded to my email last week
> concerning problems about accessing public records pertaining to
> genealogy at the Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds office. Your
> response was almost exactly as I had thought but I wanted to wait
> until today to respond since today was my appointment with Judy
> Gibson, the elected official in that office.
>
> First, I want to apologize to the board if the topic was not entirely
> appropriate. I know that sometimes these boards get bogged down with
> this sort of thing and it makes for heavy email traffic. This should
> be my last comment on the subject but I did want to give you a report
> of the outcome of the meeting.
>
> Judy was very receptive to our ideas of change and she fully realizes
> the problem at hand but as you know her hands are tied to a certain
> extent. Work space, or the lack of it, and security were her main
> concerns about giving the public full access to the old deed books and
> rightly so. Security is a major issue there and every citizen in this
> county should demand that the Register of Deeds be given the same
> security as the rest of the offices there. At this point there is
> absolutely none which is a crying shame for the workers there. We need
> to contact our County Commissioners and let them know of our concerns.
> Judy did promise to see about implementing some of the suggestions
> though and I appreciate that. I honestly believe that there is a
> workable solution to the problem with both sides giving and taking.
>
> Again, I do not want to tie up the message board with replies to this
> email but simply wanted to wrap up the subject for those who were
> interested enough to comment. If you want to discuss it further then
> please email me directly instead of replying to the message board.
> Thanks again to all who commented and offered suggestions to help.
> This is a great board!
>
> Gail Flowe Honeycutt
>
>
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