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From: "Billy Beaty" <>
Subject: Fw: MARION COUNTY WV HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 07:59:38 -0500

Thank You:

>
> Our email campaign over the past week has contributed to the pressure
felt
> by the county commissioners. You have made a difference! Please forward
> this to whomever
> you have sent the previous stories.
>
> * * *
> County will allow historians into Jacobs building
> By Theresa Haynes
> Times West Virginian Staff Writer
>
> FAIRMONT -
> Local historians concerned about the possible disposal of historical
> documents from the Jacobs building will be allowed to inventory the
> materials remaining in the building.
>
> The Marion County Commission agreed Wednesday to allow a small group of
> historians to enter the Jacobs building and inspect the files and books
> which were left after the county ordered maintenance workers to discard
> several truck loads of outdated books and files last month.
>
> Marion County Administrator Sharon Shaffer said approximately three
members
> of the Marion County Historical Society will be allowed to enter the
Jacobs
> building and look at the records, but the group will not be allowed to
walk
> through the building in search of records. Shaffer said the county is
> concerned historians may also see confidential juvenile records stored in
> the building, so she said maintenance workers and teen-agers working with
> the Governor's Summer Youth Program will bring the boxes of books and
> records to the historians.
>
> The county administrator said the county will also require the historians
to
> sign a waiver relieving the county of liability if the genealogists are
> injured in the dilapidated Jacobs building. Local genealogists had
asked
> the county to let them go through the historical building to assess what
> materials are left and hopefully salvage any that are of historical
value.
>
> Joanne Cimaglia, first vice president of the Marion County Historical
> Society, said the historical group is pleased to be given an opportunity
to
> examine the remaining historical records, but she said it would have been
> better if the county had allowed genealogists to look at the materials
which
> were thrown into garbage dumpsters and taken to the Meadowfill Landfill.
> She said the county never told local historical and genealogical
societies
> that it planned to clear out the Jacobs building for renovations.
>
> But Cimaglia said it is too late to do anything about what has been
> discarded. Now it is time to assess what is left and go on from there.
>
> "The first step is to go in there and identify what type of documents are
> there and what kind of photos and maps are there," she said.
>
> County officials maintain that only duplicates and unimportant receipts
and
> bookkeeping files were discarded and that all vital records that are
> required by law to be kept, including those pertaining to births and
> marriages, have been retained.
>
> * * *
>
> I will be out of touch by email until Monday evening. If you should have
> questions that cannot wait until then, please send your email to Neil
Scott
> at
>
> Thank you!
>
> Pam Mullinax
>
>
>
>

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