Yes most states do have the 100 year rule with births. Here in Australia, unlike in England, our birth certificates are used as Proof Of Identy (POI). In England if you take a look at a certificate it specifically states that it is NOT to be used as proof of identity. When the government here brought in the 100 points system of identity, they also tightened up the access to BDMs and the privacy legislation. We found it very interesting having to apply for my husband's birth certificate in Victoria from interstate. Tia ________________________________ From: Dianne and Bill Hughes <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, 14 December, 2008 8:00:40 PM Subject: Look up please Victoria now has a 100 year rule on births, so you can not get a birth certificate for a person born after 1908, unless it is your own of course, deaths are available before 1998, now I'm not sure about marriages. I know the Edwardian and the Great War indexes were removed from sale because of the births.  It is all because most Australian states are party to privacy legislation, I think identity fraud also comes into it somewhere, but I'm not sure where. It has nothing to do with family historians. As for the release of CDs, I know the War Dead has just been released and hopefully the Early Church Records and the Cemetery Data perhaps in the next couple of years. Dianne Hughes ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Start your day with Yahoo!7 and win a Sony Bravia TV. Enter now http://au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset/?p1=other&p2=au&p3=tagline