You go girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ron
Barbara Vines Little wrote:
>
> At what point do you consider these documents to contain only personal
> historical information of no value to the state? Do we include court cases,
> vital statistics, deeds, criminal records, business records, tax
> information, etc., etc., etc.? What other state functions should we trade
> off--libraries, education, social service, research? The current
> legislature seems to be doing a good job of ridding itself of all of these.
> We'll soon be left with the DMV and garbage collection. It is obvious that
> not standing in line to get a license plate is more important than having
> books in a library.
>
> My apologies to the list, but as an educator I get a little steamed when the
> DMV becomes more important than libraries and history is seen as something
> of interest to only a few.
>
> Barbara Vines Little, CG
> PO Box 1273
> Orange, VA 22960
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob ShrinerVA <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:01 AM
> Subject: [VA-HIST] Destruction of Wills by the VA State Legislature
>
> > Preserving historical documents (including wills and other personal
> > records) is certainly desirable; but many would question whether it should
> > be the responsibility in perpetuity of the state government, especially in
> > trade-off with other more vital state responsibilties. A more workable
> > solution might be for those who are interested in the preservation of
> these
> > records to organize a privately-funded research institution whose mission
> > would be to collect and maintain these records and to provide this
> > information to the public, conduct related research, etc. This would
> > permit those who do not reside in VA the opportunity to assist in the
> > effort and to influence the level of assistance by their contributions and
> > active involvement in research, etc. This would follow the pattern of the
> > White House Historical Society and many others around the country that
> have
> > successfully taken responsibility for the preservation of historical
> > materials.
> > Just a thought.
> > :-) Bob Shriner
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