Milwaukee County Fees Increasing
Karen D. Just posted this to another news list. I was unaware of the changes. Thanks to Karen for posting them!
I was just down in Milwaukee for a little post-Christmas genealogical research, and a word of caution to those planning to go to the Milwaukee County Register of Deeds to look up records. The rules will change as of Jan. 2, 2009.
As always, a researcher must make an appointment and they are then free to look through any of the indexes and pull for themselves any record before 1931.
Records after that year, you may know, must be pulled by the staff and only 10 records maximum. The change will be with the pulls by the staff, as it will now cost $7 to see each record. Copies are still the standard $20.
I understand that Milwaukee County is going through tough financial times, but I was quite surprised to see the fee set so high.
