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Subject: Re: Coy's CALIFORNIA COUNTY RECORDS SURVEY pub 1919
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 03:20:35 +0000

At 11:53 PM 12/1/96 +0000, you wrote:
>Ken,
>I have a copy of Coy's chapter on San Mateo Co. records (prepared 1917,
>published 1919). I need a copy of the 1938 WPA inventory as I want to
>compare them. Doubtful if I will get to San Mateo Hist Assn this next
>week.

The only pages I copied were the Naturalization pages and I proceeded to
mark it up so it is very hard to read now. I also lost part of them. It
would be best to check with the county central library to see if there is a
copy someplace closer.

>ASSESSOR RECORDS. I think it is fine that the hist assn keeps them. I
>put them at the bottom of the list as far as indexing goes. All that is
>needed is a list as to what they have and the time period covered, and
>finding out from them if these records are accessible and how.
>
>The same for the other records the Hist Assn has. I think we need to get
>a complete list of ALL the official govt records they have and the other
>non-govt records they have. For example: I know they have the original
>burial ledger for St. John's Cemetery in San Mateo and they have records
>for at least one old S. F. cemetery -- remains reburied in Colma yers
>ago, but the records went to the Hist Assn. I was there the day Marion
>was accessioning them.

If and when an Archives is established in San Mateo County, it would make a
lot of sense to pull back all the records created by County offices and have
them all available in one place.

>Once we have a comprehensive list of what records they have, then I
>think we should post this info on the CA GenWeb page and perhaps also on
>our SMCGS page. (What do you think, Jack and Bob?)
>
>Ideally, they should have a page and do their own posting, but I don't
>think that will be happening for some time. Until they do prepare a
>page, the best thing we can do as the local genie society is to let
>researchers know what's available and where it is.
>
>RESEARCH FOR A FEE. This is where SMCGS can make some money -- by
>letting the world know what records are available and that our Research
>Committee can search them for a fee.
>
>In this case, maybe we won't want to say where the records are. Why?
>They will not be writing to SMCGS to pay a fee for research; they will
>be writing the Hist Assn and paying them to research! What do you think?
>-- Helen
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I have always envisioned this project as one that would bring in money for
our treasury. We owe it to ourselves to give this first priority and we can
probably do a better research job than someone searching their family,
because we will have good indexes to work from and access to the original
records. If we charge $15.00 or $20.00 plus copy cost and postage for the
info, it will be a bargain. If makes no sense to give any of this away for
free. All we need to put on the web is a list of the indexes that we have
available for searching along with an order sheet.
Ken

Ken Tessendorff
NORCAL List Owner

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