1.   A duplicate copy should be made for the county record office.

2.   Records of all births and deaths are kept in the county offices.

3.   The desk arrived at his county office with a dead mouse in one drawer.

4.   These records are widely scattered now, but most county record offices have collections of local rolls and estate papers and can advise on the whereabouts of others.

5.   The county record office or other local archives should be a focal point for all teachers of history.

6.   As she waited anxiously, the workers tried to phone the county offices to check her name against the master lists but were rebuffed by a continual busy signal.

7.   By late Thursday afternoon about half a dozen FBI agents in business suits carted away numerous boxes of documents, computers and other materials from the county office building.

8.   City Hall and county offices were shut, and the federal government shut its buildings, posting U.S. marshals to stand guard.

9.   County programs that used inmate labor to refurbish roads, build county offices and maintain schools and parks will disappear over the next year.

10.   Democrats claimed five county offices from Republicans in four counties at the bottom of the ballot.