The DCOWeb Public Records Board is designed to permit you to submit transcriptions of various types of documents (with a Darke Co. connection only, please) that you find or have in your own collection. Anything which was found in a court house, health department, clerks's office, etc. that is public information should be submitted here such as wills & estates; divorces & probate accounts; land/estate partitions & deeds; naturalizations & pensions; birth, marriage, & death records, etc. Sources are always important, but we realize that many have clippings and/or photocopies in their possession which no longer have any information about the place or date originally published. If you positively know the will or estate was administered in Darke Co., please indicate that as part of your source. For wills show what Will book and page where the will was found or for estates give the docket number when that information is known to you.

This Board is set so that all posts are listed in alphabetical order. When you try to change viewing preferences you can only choose to limit the time period for when a post was made or select that posts are sorted in reverse alphabetical order. It is also a Moderated Board so that when you make a post the Board Administrator has to verify that it follows acceptable formats and that the subject is set so that it sorts correctly. There may be as much as a week's delay before a post might show up in the Message Index or you might be contacted in e-mail for more information.

When you are ready to post yourself, please follow these few guidelines for Obituary posts to make your visit more productive for yourself and others.
(these are still under construction and may change)

• Explain the connection to Darke Co., Ohio, if it isn't obvious in the record.
• Always provide -your- name and e-mail address to protect the 'chain of evidence' about the transcription. Who submitted the transcription is an important piece of information about -that- transcription.
• For the subject, use the last name of the person, comma, and given name(s). Put maiden names in "(...)" parentheses.
• Irrelevant or offensive posts will be removed without notice.
• Some posts may be shared with the DCO Discussion List for wider distribution.
• If you change your e-mail address, contact the Board Administrator to change it.

YOU own your posts and we have left you the option to delete your post at a later time if you wish. However, you must provide a password for that post at the time you make it. Without your password, you will have to contact the Board Administrator to get a post removed or corrected. Be aware that if you remove your post, you may not remove the replies that were made to it. Every separate individual owns their own posts. DCOWeb is merely the custodian making your posts available for viewing.