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Chinese Auction

October 24, 2009

Friendship Rod and Gun Club, Inc.,

6188 Co. Rd. 31, (Top of East Hill) Friendship, NY

Left-Right: Elizabeth Burrows, Andrea Domke, and Jennifer Burrows
displaying few of great gift items.

Very large amount of new items including, velour children jackets, baby outfits, many China Dolls in boxes, cloth dolls, Christmas decorations, games, books, many craft items, food items, hunting clothing; and lots of area gift certificates. Club still accepting donations to support club functions, and other community projects, such as local school scholarship, and conservation camp.

This will be a great way to do some early Christmas shopping and large selection of items. Kitchen will be open with snack sale items, and Bake Sale.

Doors open at noon on October 24^th, drawings start at 3:00 pm and need not be present to win. We will call you if you win.

72 tickets for $5.00. Price for tickets remains the same as last year!

Call Ronna Jordan 585-973-7468, or Diane Foster 585-973-7923 for pickup of donations or questions.

Allegany County Courthouse Open House
Big Success!

by Ron Taylor
Robert Christman, Allegany County Clerk, invited the citizens to come and come they did.
Around 150 people took advantage of a nice sunny Sunday afternoon to visit Belmont and the Courthouse in search of information and see what documents were on file and open to the public.
As the doors swung open at 1:00 pm, over 75 people were there and ready to start their quest for genealogy searches, land title lookups, census, wills and all the great things that make the hobby of family hunt so interesting to many.
Cider and donuts awaited those in need of refreshment and Rob invited his guests to look at all the documents available with only one request, no photos of the documents. Rob explained that he was the only person who could certify a documents and didn't want any "uncertified" documents out circulating in public domain.
Several key citizens gave up their Sunday afternoon to help guide the researchers from book to book to give them a great experience learning the ropes at the Courthouse.
Below shows some of the crowd as they looked through the archives.

11/11/07 was a great time for guests to look up information at the archives in the Courthouse at Belmont........

Above at left is the racks storing Census and Miscl. documents open to the public....

Land title documents & deeds are always of interest to researchers and are being viewed here...

Guests in the "Wills" look at probated records that are released to the public.

A great time was had by all and Rob is talking of his next open house!!
Thank you Rob, for a great afternoon.