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Bizarre reference request, part 2



The patron asked for a specific couple getting married on a specific date,
so it's probably not a demographic study or a problem of mistaken identity.

Here's the kicker: we looked the marrriage up. The names and dates match the
specifics in the request letter. The groom was mullato. Should we send the
record anyhow?


Thomas J. Wood
Archivist
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
University of Illinois at Springfield
P.O. Box 19243
Springfield IL 62794-9243
217-206-6520 | wood@uis.edu | http://www.uis.edu/library/lib-arch


-----Original Message-----
From: Wood, Thomas [mailto:Wood.Thomas@UIS.EDU]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 2:17 PM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Bizarre reference request


Today we received an otherwise routine request from a patron asking for some
specific marriage records (which are among the holdings if the Illinois
Regional Archives Depository here). It was routine -- she provided exact
names and dates --except for the postscript: "I would like the records for
White Caucasian persons only."

I'm not quite sure what to make of that...

Thomas J. Wood
Archivist
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
University of Illinois at Springfield
P.O. Box 19243
Springfield IL 62794-9243
217-206-6520 | wood@uis.edu | http://www.uis.edu/library/lib-arch

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