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From: "Faded Genes" <>
Subject: [NCROOTS] Catawba County NC Genealogy Room
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:17:05 -0500

If you ever research at the Catawba County Library, please take a
moment to read this. I have serious doubts about things like
wheelchair accessibility and the quiet you need with tourists and
their children tramping in and out if this collection is moved.

I received this from the Burke County list and received permission to
pass it along. If you ever research at the Catawba County Library,
please take a moment to read it.

The following is a verbatim letter to the editor:

To The Editor:

On Saturday, December 2, 2000 approximately 40 members of the
Catawba
County Genealogical Society met with Steven J. Allan of the Fruman
White
and Associates regarding the request of the C.C. Historical
Association to
move the Evelyn W Deal Rhodes Genealogy Room to the Murray's Mill
Site.
This was a very good meeting and we all came away in agreement. Why?

Why would the museum want a collection: of genealogical research
that
is open to the people when it has a history room of it's own. Why not
move
its own history room and build on it?

The name Evelyn Deal Rhodes: Genealogy Room is an honor given to
Mrs.
Rhodes for the library for having the ability and the foresight to
start
this collection. It was that in the job description and as much a
part of
the library as the children's section, the video section, the
magazine section.

The older members of C.C.G.S. tramped over fields, wherever to
research and document those nine books that became the Catawba County
Cemeteries. Us later members did the same thing to update this
information.

The CCGS researched, documented and had cause to have published
those
books on Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions, the Census, Abstracts
of
Death Certificates, Catawba County Marriages, C.C. Probates.

Genealogical research does not proceed in a straight line. You
shuttle from
one source to another. When you go into another county, you head for
the
county seat and the library. That is the way the system is set up.

Letters have gone out to the County Commissioners, County
Managers,
Assistant County Manager, members of the Historical Association
Board, and
Library Board.

In the world of genealogy, this room has earned the reputation of
the
best in this part of Western North Carolina and an honor for the
library
and should stay in the library.

Vivian Furr Abernethy
Catawba County Genealogical Society

[Open Forum, Observer-News-Enterprise, December 28, 2000, p. 4]

Note: I have known Ms. Abernethy for many years and echo her
sentiments. I
also urge those in agreement with her, whether they be from out-of-
town or
from the local area, to write those that have influence over the
decision-making powers. Among those are:

County Manager, Tom Lundy <>

Asst. County Manager Steve Wyatt is at (828) 465-8201

County Public Informarion Officer, Dave Hardin
<>

Catawba Co. Historical Assn. at: <>

The Catawba County Commissioners can be reached as follows:

Marie H. Huffman, Chairman
6232 Sulphur Springs Road Hickory, NC 28601 (828) 256-8172


W. Steve Ikerd, Vice Chair
P.O. Box 2223 Hickory, NC 28603-2223 - (828) 256-8043 (evening) Fax:
(828)
322-1183

Barbara G. Beatty
2990 Balls Creek Road Newton, NC 28658 (828) 464-0277 Fax: (828)
464-4853

Kitty W. Barnes
3755 11th St. N.E. Hickory, NC 28601 Tel: (828) 328-3347 - Fax:
(828)
328-9952

Dan A. Hunsucker
3216 John Daniel Drive Conover, NC 28613 (828) 465-2802




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