[Sal4liberty]

Government seizes and destroys 160-year-old historical documents; genealogists and historians are outraged

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[mattmuttsmith]

I'm in nc and I had heard about this. The rumor I was told was that a prominent family stood to loose some money from land that was never theirs in the first place. They made a few calls to their cronies and bam. Paperwork gets gone.

Im not sure if this is true or not.

 

[MtnCat]

From WRAL-Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville:

http://www.wral.com/historians-lament-destruction-of-franklin-county-records/13229922/

At least part of the documents have been scanned. But the loss of the originals is sad.

 

[Sal4liberty]

yes it seems quite tragic indeed