Last year's legislation is taking effect. The following public notice was published in the *Auburn Journal* on Friday, June 13th. (Capitalized words are as they appear in the public notice.): * * * * * REQUEST FOR BIRTH OR DEATH RECORD EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2003 Beginning July 1, 2003 California Health and Safety Code Section 103526 permits only specific individuals to receive an AUTHORIZED CERTIFIED COPY of a birth or death record. An AUTHORIZED CERTIFIED COPY of a birth record is required to obtain a driver's license, passport, social security card and other services related to an individual's identity. An AUTHORIZED CERTIFIED COPY of a death record may be required to obtain death benefits, claim insurance proceeds, notify social security and obtain other services related to an individual's identity. Please see below for a list of authorized individuals. Those who do not meet the criteria for an AUTHORIZED CERTIFIED COPY may receive an INFORMATIONAL CERTIFIED COPY with the words "INFORMATIONAL, NOT A VALID DOCUMENT TO ESTABLISH IDENTITY" imprinted across the face of the copy. When ordering in person: an authorized individual must complete an approved application, including a signed statement sworn under penalty of perjury to receive an AUTHORIZED CERTIFIED COPY. When ordering by mail: a notarized Certificate of Identity and completed application form, signed under penalty of perjury by the authorized requestor are required. Applications and Certificate of Identity forms are available on our website at www.placer.ca.gov/clerk. Individuals permitted to receive an AUTHORIZED CERTIFIED COPY: * The registrant or a parent or legal guardian of the registrant. * A party entitled to receive the record as a result of a court order, or an attorney or a licensed adoption agency seeking the birth record in order to comply with the requirements of Section 3140 or 7603 of the Family Code. * A member of a law enforcement agency or a representative of another government agency, as provided by law, who is conducting official business. * A child, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, spouse or domestic partner of the registrant. * An attorney representing the registrant or the registrant's estate, or any person or agency empowered by statute or appointed by a court to act on behalf of the registrant or the registrant's estate. * Any funeral director that orders certified copies of a death certificate on behalf of any individual specified in paragraphs (1) to (5), inclusive, or subdivision (a) of Section 7100 of the Health and Safety Code. Jim McCauley Placer County Clerk-Recorder-Registrar * * * * * [End of public notice.] After July 1st, when you order birth or death certificates for genealogical use, be sure to order an "Informational Certified Copy," not an "Authorized Certified Copy." This legislation is effective state-wide, not just in Placer County. Thank you to Joyce House, President of the Placer County Genealogical Society, for bringing this notice to my attention. Barbara Leak Research Chair, Placer County Genealogical Society www.pcgenes.com/pcgs.html Treasurer, Genealogical & Historical Council of Sacramento Valley www.sacvalleygenes.org Join us for: "A Golden Prospect" National Genealogical Society's Conference in the States Sacramento Convention Center 19-22 May 2004

PLACER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 7385 AUBURN, CA 95604 (530) 887-2646 PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – June 15, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY TO MEET IN AUBURN The Placer County Genealogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7PM, Thursday, June 26th, in the Beecher Room of the Auburn-Placer County Library, 350 Nevada Street in Auburn. The meeting is free and open to the public. The program speaker will be Pam Dallas. Her subject is, "What the Siblings Will Tell You That Your Ancestors Won't--Collateral Research." Ms. Dallas has been involved in genealogical research for over 10 years and has served as President, Vice-President, Past President, Field Trip Chairwoman, and in many other capacities for Placer County Genealogical Society. She is deeply involved in the Roseville Genealogical Society and has served as their President, Vice-President and Education Chairwoman. She belongs to the Genealogical and Historical Council of Sacramento Valley and has held and is holding positions with them. She primarily researches genealogy in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and is a very popular lecturer in the Bay area and greater Sacramento area. The Placer County Genealogical Society has a membership of over 200 individuals and families that have genealogical interests. The group holds a general meeting at the Auburn library site on the fourth Thursday of each month from 7-9PM, and features a program speaker on various genealogical subjects. The group also offers two specialty day groups. One that studies various topics of member interest, which meets at the library on the first Tuesday of the month (except July and August), and the other, the Family Tree Maker User Group, reviews genealogy computer program subjects, on the second Thursday of the month. The Society maintains a web site at www.pcgenes.com/pcgs.html

How many of you have spent your $69 for the eGenConference The following is a message I just sent to the eGenConference I have listened to many of your sessions and feel that I have been deceived and cheated. There are only a few sessions which are not old recycled lessons. Most of the conference is just your old lessons from Karen's online school. The quality of the sound is poor and I am barely able to understand many of the presenters Where do I go for a refund ? I hope you are having a fine day ! Seeking Jesus' will in my life ! I am Jim Rader <mailto:jim@rader.org> jim@rader.org I hope to hear from you again soon!

Folsom Cordova Adult Education Fall Semester 2003 Presents A Family History Workshop Ten Week Course Defining and Executing a Research Project Held in Folsom at the Mercy Folsom Village Computer Lab 1160 Duchow, Folsom $40/Seniors 55 and older $20 Instructor: Susan H. Jackman Mondays 9 am -12 pm Class begins September 8th The class has limited seating for 18 people A structured workshop designed for the Family Historian who has a basic knowledge of the research process. This is a ‘hands on’ environment requiring the student to bring to the first class the family pedigree and all primary and secondary sources associated with the ancestral line. The object of the class is to teach the student of family history the process of working through a research project and creating a well-documented research report. The computer lab will be used to locate original census and other documents using Ancestry.com and other major online resources. The instructor will be available for one-on-one consultation. The three hour class will be broken into three segments; class time and the rotation of group time and student time. Group time allows for small group discussions and problem-solving with the instructor. Student time allows each student to be ‘on task’ at the computers. Research Project Scenario: Joan chooses to research the life of her 4th great grandfather in hopes of writing a short biographical sketch. She knows his birth, marriage and death information but would like to have more to write about. She chooses 8 ‘events’ or ‘records’ (tasks) she would like to add to the biography. She might choose to identify where and how much land her ancestor had. She may want to find him on a few census records to trace the history of his occupations. She may use tax records to determine what year he moved from one county to another. She may choose to locate his naturalization information and find the year he came to the United States, and so on. Joan puts together a research report detailing all the information she found with full documentation. At the end of the 10 week class, from the information she has gathered, she is now able to put together a detailed biographical sketch of her 4th great grandfather with full documentation. Example Research Projects Biographical Sketch The life and times of your ancestor—using Land, Tax, Naturalization, Passenger lists, Census and other records and including information about living conditions and social environment of the time and place. Full Census Report Find your ancestor on every census record possible from his birth to death—get a copy—create a detailed census report. Revolutionary War Report Find all available documents associated with your Military ancestor including Muster Rolls, County Militia records, Military Bounty Lands, pension applications, D.A.R. info, Military burial records, etc. Write a documented Military Report. Land and Property Report Locate all the land associated with your ancestor and order a plat map of your ancestor’s property if available. Get copies of all deeds associated with the family. Create a detailed and documented Land and Property report for your ancestor. Probate Report Choose an ancestor and locate a will and/or all documents relating to the probating of his belongings at death. Get a copy of the ‘goods and chattels’ giving an inventory of all the household items and farm implements. Find out who was assigned to administrate over the distribution of your ancestors land and property. Get copies of all legal documents. Create a detailed probate report. Professional Report For the would-be Professional: Take your research facts and create a fully documented Professional Research Report for a client showing what records were searched and why, showing results, and recommending the next steps in research. Custom Report You choose!!!! Class Schedule Week One Defining the Research Project—Using Report Forms and Task Forms. Projects determined IN CLASS. Outline of tasks created for the weeks to follow. Each student will come away with a list of possible films to order from the Family History Library in Salt Lake—to be viewed at the Sacramento Family History Center (Instructor is on shift Weds 1-4:30). Weeks Two-Nine Individual tasks will be completed by the students IN CLASS. Hands on Lab. Group problem solving. Instructor help. Use of instructor guided in-class to-do lists or ‘task outlines.’ Use of online Resources. Use of Microsoft Word for creating reports. Use of family history database software for viewing/evaluating student pedigrees (using the student's GEDCOM on 3 ½ floppy) Week 10 Finished Reports are brought to class. Voluntary class presentations. The student comes away with a finished product: A well documented Family History Report. : To reserve your spot: Send your check for $40/$20Seniors made out to 'Adult Education' to Community Education Center 10850 Gadsten Way Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 (916) 635-6810. Put ‘Family History Workshop Folsom’ in the memo of your check. Important: no confirmation will be sent out. If the class is full your check will be returned! Questions? Call or e-mail the instructor Susan Jackman at (916) 983-5118 / susanjackman@attbi.com ______________________ Susan’s Family History Workshop Fall Semester 2003 Class Registration Name: Address: Phone: Amount Paid:

The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 2003 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.RootsForum.com. Vol. 8 No. 23 - June 9, 2003 Standard Edition Copyright(c) 2003 by Richard W. Eastman. All rights reserved. - Family History Library Reduces Hours The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has announced new library hours beginning 1 July 2003. The library will be open Mondays from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., and Tuesdays through Saturdays from 8:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.. Frequent library users will note that this reflects opening one-half hour later, and closing one hour earlier from Tuesday through Saturday. Glade I. Nelson, Director of the Family History Library, pointed out that the library will still be open 74 hours per week, considerably more than any other major genealogical facility in the U.S. He also hopes that patrons will be able to adjust their schedules to fit all their research needs within the new open hours. The reductions were necessary because of a decrease in staff and volunteers.

If you research in Ohio the following will be of interest. If you don't research in Ohio, the following may still be of interest because it is another case in a series of recent moves by various states across the country to close access to vital records or make access difficult or expensive or both. If researchers, genealogists and historians don't take this as a serious threat we may soon find we can't access vital records anywhere in the county. PD It is with a very heavy heart that I must report that we lost on Ohio House Bill 95. Yesterday afternoon, the Senate approved the bill (it was approved by the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday). With HB95, we lose uncertified copies of vital records and certified copies have an additional $5 surcharge (making the cost of a certified copy a minimum of $15). If you want to read the bill as passed by the Senate, here's the link (it is a huge page): http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText125/125_HB_95_PS_N.html The pertinent sections are 3705.23 and 3705.24. Because this language matches the House version of the bill, I have little hope that it would change in the committee working to reconcile the House and Senate versions. I know that we are still "fortunate" (and I use that term loosely) in Ohio in that the records are not restricted in other ways. However, based upon conversations I have had in recent days with officials with the Ohio Department of Health, the next step will be to restrict access -- either with a time restriction and/or an access restriction (only qualified parties can get a copy of the record). We tried our best. We gave them good, reasonable, logical explanations as to why eliminating uncertified copies will do nothing to prevent identity theft. We gave them possible alternatives so that uncertified copies would no longer be a financial hardship on the agencies involved. I would be willing to bet that genealogists were the only group that contacted the senate that was willing to accept a fee increase! But our arguments and concessions were apparently not enough. I don't know what to say, except get all of the birth and death certificates you need from Ohio before July 1 when this law will go into effect. Amy Crow ======================== Amy Johnson Crow, CG PO Box 1394 Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068-6394 voice (614) 755-2769 fax (614) 866-6162 amy@amyjohnsoncrow.com ==== APG Mailing List ==== The Association of Professional Genealogists http://www.apgen.org/publications/apg-l/index.html

If you research in New Jersey this might interest you. PD Dear Colleagues: It is with great pleasure and no small amount of trepidation that I announce to you all the posting, earlier this morning, of the State Archives' online browsable catalog! Yes, we have successfully created a monster. website that is. With over 200 brand new webpages, this expansion of the site represents a milestone in terms of public access to the 27,000 cubic feet and 25,000 reels of historical and genealogical treasure held by the Archives. It is a milestone, in fact, comparable to the major collection management efforts associated with the relocation of the State Archives to its new facility in 2000. The browsable catalog is accessible from the State Archives' main page at DARM's site, www.njarchives.org. You can link directly to the catalog page at: <http://www.njarchives.org/links/catalog.html> From the catalog main page, select any number of pathways to find series-level listings relating to numerous topics, holdings for specific state agencies and counties, and so on. The listings also provide contact information and links for more recent records still held by the agency or by local government. These 200+ pages provide the researching public with powerful new tools to enhance remote use of the State Archives collections and allow for considerable research planning in advance of a visit to Trenton. Moreover, the series-level catalog provides us with a framework onto which the Archives can, and will, soon link finding aids and guides, box- and reel-contents data, imaged collections, searchable databases (including key-word searching of the catalog), and so on. Lastly, if you will indulge me, I would like to specially acknowledge a few State Archives, DARM and departmental staff whose support and contributions to developing the browsable catalog have been key in making this vision a reality. First, thanks go to Archives Collection Manager Ellen Callahan, my partner in arrangement and description for many years up to and through the move of the Archives. Ellen's dedication to making the Archives' holdings as accessible to the public as possible has been vital to our progress, including the development of the catalog. Next, thanks go to the Archives staff for the numerous ways they have helped to develop, review content, and contribute to design decisions relative to the new pages. Specifically, thank you to Veronica Meyer for making the catalog intro pages a reality, to Sean Curry and Beth Colosimo for reviewing content and resolving cataloging questions, and to Joanne Nestor for selection of images for the intro pages. Finally, thanks go DARM webmaster Dan Noonan, departmental MIS Director Richard Allen, and DARM Director Karl Niederer. Dan's and Rich's technical and moral support are deeply appreciated by the Archives, as are Karl's confidence in the Archives staff and the creative license given to us. Enjoy and happy browsing... We look forward to your constructive criticism and any suggestions you might have for additional topics and pages. Sincerely, Joseph R. Klett Chief of Archives P.S. Please excuse cross-postings and feel free to forward to any relevant history, genealogy or archives listserves. ==== APG Mailing List ==== The Association of Professional Genealogists http://www.apgen.org/publications/apg-l/index.html

Jim Rader's FOLSOM CORDOVA ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES Mail registration & checks to: . $40 (Seniors 55+ $20) Adult Ed. 10850 Gadsten Way Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 (916) 635-6810 CC-131 Genealogy - Family History On the Internet Tuesday 1-4 begins September 2, 2003 CC-132 Genealogy - Family History Legacy Data Base (Internet) Thursday 1-4 begins September 4, 2003 I hope you are having a fine day ! I am Jim Rader jim@rader.org I hope to hear from you again soon!

Do you have any specific items your would like to have included in the fall class ? I hope you are having a fine day ! Seeking Jesus' will in my life ! I am Jim Rader jim@rader.org I hope to hear from you again soon! -----Original Message----- From: E61496@aol.com [mailto:E61496@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 9:04 AM To: jim@rader.org Subject: Re: The list is for everyone in the greater Sacramento area to post Am interested in fall classes. Betty

This list is for everyone in the greater Sacramento area to post events that might be of interest to those who care about history / genealogy / family history etc On every list there are those who complain, ignore them!!! I have had people complain because they received any email after they subscribed to the list Like subscribing to a list is not supposed to create Email Anyone who is tired of receiving mail from this list can unsubscribe by sending an unsubscribe message to CA-SACRAMENTO-EVENTS-L-request@rootsweb.com I hope you are having a fine day ! Seeking Jesus' will in my life ! I am Jim Rader jim@rader.org I hope to hear from you again soon!

Sacramento German Genealogy Society P. O. Box 660061 Sacramento CA 95866-0081 OK FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June meeting of the Sacramento German Genealogy Society The June meeting of the Sacramento German Genealogy Society will be held Tuesday, June 24, at 1:00 p.m., at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church on Lusk Drive at St. Mark’s Way in Sacramento. The speaker for the meeting will be Marion Wolfert, A. G., recently returned from Europe on one of her frequent research trips and fresh with thoughts on the topic “Current Bright Spots in German Family History.” Born and raised in Germany, she is the co-author of “German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen (1847-1871)” and author of the ongoing project, “Brandenburg Immigration Index.” She has spoken to the SGGS membership several times and always leaves behind a big fan club. Entrance to the SGGS monthly meetings is free for members. Visitors are welcome, although it is asked that non-member attendees either join the SGGS or pay a $5.00 admittance fee when they attend a meeting. The society’s only source of income is membership dues, and the cost of providing its exceptional programs is quite high. Guests and members are encouraged to arrive for the meeting by 12:30, to give themselves time to browse the SGGS informational tables, which feature German genealogy-related books for sale, pedigree charts and other genealogical aids, oversized German wall maps, German reference and library tools, German cards, back issues of the society’s quarterly “Der Blumenbaum,” and mentors to answer research questions. And there are always SGGS members who share your interests and are eagerly awaiting a chance to discuss German genealogy and compare notes on research and families! If you have questions about the society, e-mail President Charles V. Knuthson at cknuthson@surewest.net or call him at (916) 782-5704 or contact the society’s website at www.SacGerGenSoc.org. Submitted by Ramona Schmiedel, Publicity Director 5915 Pelm Lane Foresthill CA 95631 (530) 367-4445 rundfschmiedel@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

Jim What is your e-mail? I wish to contact you. Thanks Lorry Dunning

To those who may be planning to attend the Sacramento German Genealogy Society (SGGS) meeting today, the scheduled speaker, La Vern Rippley, Ph.D, will not be available to speak today. He notified our Program Chairman, Joyce Bauer, by phone minutes ago, that he was bumped from his flight through no fault of his own. He gives his utmost apologies and is truly devastated by this turn of events. He was looking forward to visiting Sacramento and seeing old friends again. This notice is being sent for the benefit of those folks who may be planning to drive long distances in order to hear this prominent speaker. SGGS still plans to hold an impromptu meeting for those attending, using local talent from within our group. Regretfully, Margery Borger Treasurer, SGGS

PLACER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 7385 AUBURN, CA 95604 Voice Mail (530) 887-2646 www.pcgenes.com/pcgs.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – May 21 ,2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY TO HOLD DAY TIME WORKSHOP The Placer County Genealogical Society (PCGS) will hold its regular Day Study Group Workshop, on Tuesday, June 3rd. The Society sponsors its study group program (an informal round table discussion on genealogical problem solving) on the first Tuesday of each month, from 10AM to Noon, in the Auburn-Placer County Library Beecher Room, 350 Nevada Street, Auburn. It should be noted, however, that the group does not meet during the months of July and August. The June 3rd program speaker will be Gloria Gibbell, who will discuss "Newspaper Research." The workshop is open to the public at no cost. For more information on this Study Group, the Society’s Family TreeMaker User Group and its regular meeting activity, see the Society’s Web page at www.pcgenes.com/pcgs.html or call 887-2646. #

The DAR Library has a new online catalog. See below for more info. Barbara ----- Original Message ----- May 14, 2003 Please visit the DAR's website (www.dar.org) some time to view the new index that we have posted in the library's part of the site. Since the 1910s, DAR members have been collecting unpublished genealogical materials, largely Bible and cemetery transcriptions, in what we call the Genealogical Records Committee Reports. There are nearly 18,000 volumes of these typescripts in our library. We are the only collection with all of these compilations and the volume numbering for these only works at the DAR Library. Many of you may have some of the GRC Reports from your own state, but we have numbered and arranged all of the state materials based on the holdings in our collection, which we naturally consider to be the master set. For the past couple of years we have had a project to index all of these volumes and to create national index to this wealth of genealogical information. The beginnings of this national index are now searchable on our web site. On that site, click on the top bar where it says "DAR Library," and on the library's page click on GRC National Index in the left-hand column just below the link to the library catalog. The page will open for the index search screen. Presently, Virginia, Maryland, Oregon, and Kentucky are largely complete, but there are about twenty other states for which portions of their set of GRC reports. One may limit a search to a particular state or to all states. NOT limiting a search to a state is a good idea because so many records from eastern states ended up in the hands of DAR members in western states and that's where the transcripts will appear, in the typescripts for the state in which the donor/transcriber lived! When the search results appear, there is a listing of the state, series, volume and page number. At the present time, that is as far as the reference will go. In the near future we plan to have every such index entry link over to the cataloging record for the exact book in which the reference appears. The contents notes of each book will help a researcher determine if the index entry is indeed something of interest to their search. Eventually, we hope to have the index entry link directly to the actual text. That, however, is a few years down the road and will likely involve some sort of subscription. This GRC National Index enables researchers to tap into our materials here in Washington and order copies of pages through the Library's Search Service (information on that is also available in the Library portion of the DAR website with fees and instructions). If there are questions about this index please send them to me. This index is just the first of several in the works, and we hope it will become a major source for researchers. Remember! The DAR Library's collections are not in any way limited to the period of the American Revolution. The materials buried in these reports cover all periods in American history. This index grows daily as new volume indexes are received from our members performing this massive undertaking. Please let your researchers know about it too. Eric Eric G. Grundset Library Director DAR Library 1776 D St., N.W. Washington, DC 20006-5303 202-879-3313 (phone) 202-879-3227 (fax) egrundset@dar.org

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – May 9, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUBURN GENEALOGY CLUB TO MEET The Placer County Genealogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting at 7PM, Thursday, May 22nd, in the Beecher Room of the Auburn-Placer County Library, 350 Nevada Street in Auburn. The meeting is free and open to the public. The program speaker will be Maryann Stanck. Her subject will be "Draper Manuscripts." Maryann was the Past President, Past 1st Vice President, and 2nd Vice President of Roseville Genealogical Society and Registrar of the Genealogical and Historical Council of Sacramento Valley. She has been doing genealogy research for about 9 years. The Draper Manuscripts are a collection of nearly 500 volumes from nearly 1,200 people of letters, interviews, archival records, original manuscripts, newspaper articles, and maps that were collected for over 45 years by Lyman Copeland Draper. They cover a period from 1740 to 1830 and include the history of the trans-Allegheny West. Maryann will talk will be about the man, Lyman Copeland Draper, the contents of the Draper Manuscripts, the location of the Manuscripts, and how to find the Manuscripts. The Placer County Genealogical Society has a membership of over 200 individuals and families that have genealogical interests. The group holds a general meeting at the Auburn library site on the fourth Thursday of each month from 7-9PM, and features a program speaker on various genealogical subjects. The group also offers two specialty day groups. One that studies various topics of member interest, which meets at the library on the first Tuesday of the month, and the other, the Family Tree Maker User Group, reviews genealogy computer program subjects, on the second Thursday of the month. The Society maintains a web site at www.pcgenes.com/pcgs.html

Sacramento German Genealogy Society P. O. Box 660061 Sacramento CA 95866-0081 OK FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May meeting of the Sacramento German Genealogy Society The May meeting of the Sacramento German Genealogy Society will be held Tuesday, May 27, at 1:00 p.m., at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church on Lusk Drive at St. Mark’s Way in Sacramento. The speaker for the meeting will be La Vern Rippley, whose topic will be “A Mirror on the Past, Reflecting the Future: 200 Years of Germans in America.” Professor of German and chairman of the German Department at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, Rippley is author of many books, including “Of German Ways” and “The German Americans.” He will speak about our German ancestors’ everyday lives, including family life, vocational traditions, superstitions and other elements of their immigrant existence. Entrance to the SGGS monthly meetings is free for members. Visitors are welcome, although it is asked that non-member attendees either join the SGGS or pay a $5.00 admittance fee when they attend a meeting. The society’s only source of income is membership dues, and the cost of providing its exceptional programs is quite high. Guests and members are encouraged to arrive for the meeting by 12:30, to give themselves time to browse the SGGS informational tables, which feature German genealogy-related books for sale, pedigree charts and other genealogical aids, oversized German wall maps, German reference and library tools, German cards, back issues of the society’s quarterly “Der Blumenbaum,” and mentors to answer research questions. And there are always SGGS members who share your interests and are eagerly awaiting a chance to discuss German genealogy and compare notes on research and families! If you have questions about the society, e-mail President Charles V. Knuthson at cknuthson@surewest.net or call him at (916) 782-5704 or contact the society’s website at www.SacGerGenSoc.org. Submitted by Ramona Schmiedel, Publicity Director 5915 Pelm Lane Foresthill CA 95631 (530) 367-4445 rundfschmiedel@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

There was a notice on one of my lists that researchers can now use the Internet to check more than 50 million historical records at the National Archives. http://www.archives.gov/aad I haven’t had lots of time to check it out but my initial introduction to it was quite interesting. Also check out the ARC page from aad. If you are doing Native American research you will be pleased to see the listing for Guion-Miller Roll Index and Index to Final Rolls – Dawes. I can’t wait to have more time to investigate it! Pamela

This additional information our from Iris... Up-date on the Call to Action: Senator Feinstein's full email address is http://feinstein.senate.gov/email.html (Sorry, I assumned folks would understand.) I have also been told that both Senator Feinstein and Representative John E. Sweeney seem to be willing to ammend the wording to apply to records of living individuals only. Lets let them hear from us to be sure! Happy hunting, Iris On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:13:03 -0700, Iris Jones <ijones@accessbee.com> wrote: FEDERAL LEGISLATION - A CALL TO ACTION At the federal level there are two bills on privacy and the use of Social Security Numbers working their way through the system. They are call the Social Security Misuse Prevention Act. Granted, the misuse of Social Security Numbers has gone on much too long, but as the bills are worded it could spell the end of the Social Security Death Indexes. Even if they were to exempt the present Death Indexes, no further indexes could be developed. The Utah Genealogical Society has worked to get the authors to amend the bill to protect the continued availability of the death indexes, but so far there have been no amendments. It is time for the genealogy community to let Washington know how we feel. We want people's privacy protected but we do not want to see this very important historical research tool lost forever. It is important to thousands of genealogists and family health historians. We ask that make the following amendments in S228 and HR637: 1. Under Sec. 3 (a)(1)(a) DEFINITIONS, add the following definition: "SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER - The term 'social security number' refers to the social security number of a living individual." 2. Under Sec. 4 (a)(1)(e)(2) LIST OF PAPER AND OTHER NONELECTRONIC RECORDS, delete "(D) death certificates." You can contact the authors: S228 Senator Dianne Feinstein 331 Hart Senate Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-3841/fax (202) 228-3954 <feinstein.senate.gov/email.html> Senator Patrick J. Leahy 433 Hart Senate Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-4242/<senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov> Senator Judd Gregg 393 Hart Senate Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-3324/<mailbox@gregg.senate.gov> HR637 Representative John E. Sweeney 416 Cannon Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20515 (202)225-5614/Fax (202) 225-6234 To be added to the Network, send your name, name of your organization, and e-mail address, stating you wish to be added to the Legislative Network, to <ijones@accessbee.com>.---22 April 2003, CSGA Legislative Network, Iris Carter Jones. [Permission is granted to reprint Legislative reports. Please cite your source.]

It was just brought to my attention that the Email address for Senator Dianne Feinstein listed in the message just forwarded regarding the proposed bill is incorrect. The way to send an email to Senator Feinstein is on her website http://feinstein.senate.gov/email.html