While manning his curatorial post in the Harris County District Clerk’s
historic documents room, Francisco Heredia fields calls from people asking
him to look up a 19th century document about a court case involving a
great-grandfather or another relative or just a person of interest.

The caller occasionally will even have the year that the case was tried.
Francisco will pull out a large bound volume and start paging through.
Sometimes, he finds the case that the person is seeking, sometimes not.

Even when records have been preserved and bound, people trying to access
the DCO’s historic records face a hurdle because there is no index that
would make searches easier.

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