I recently received an email that Missouri was going to make it harder 
to access all of their vital records, require photo ID, reason for 
request and/or a signed notorization when requesting copies.  They, 
too, claim it has to do with preventing identity theft. 

Lynda


Quoting Clay Gullatt <[log in to unmask]>:
> If you do not scribe to ancestry.com, which is expensive or have access to
> Heritage Quest for free, I think the best free records is at the LDS Family
> Search website. It includes the census records, federal and state, many with
> images attached, many marriage, birth and death records. Depending on 
> the state
> many of the marriage, birth and death records have an image attached. 
>
> The LDS have said they intend to put all the records they have in 
> their Granite
> Mountain storage site on the Internet this would include the milllions county
> records. They are constantly adding new records. 
>
> I agree that many of the family trees on the LDS website are terrible 
> and have
> many, many errors, I don't use the website for the family trees but for the
> actual records many of which are available no where else on the Internet. The
> Temple ready records I ignore. I fully expect that my name will 
> appear on their
> website as Temple ready after my death with my official birth date but not my
> actual one because the date on my birth certificate is incorrect. 
>
> Other great sites are those of the USGENWEB Archives Projects that 
> they have for
> just about every county in the US. 
>
> I must say that some states are much better with access to their records that
> others. The worst I have encountered is Kansas where you have to 
> prove you are
> related to the individual you are seeking info on or you get nothing 
> no matter
> how old the record is. Some of the best are Georgia's Virtual Vault and West
> Virginia's Archives and History website. 
>
> There are not many people that are 110 years old and I don't think anyone is
> trying to steal their identity. Isn't it about time that our legislators and
> record keepers have a little common sense? If they want to make money off the
> records, as many do, then charge a reasonable copy fee for the 
> information and
> not try to gouge the public. 
>
> Clay
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