Hello List: regarding Jacqui's question about B.C. Birth Registrations... The B.C. Gov't earlier this year passed several amendments to the Vital Stats Act....among which was a change regarding access to Birth Registrations - there is now a period of 120 years from the birth of a person before the registration form will be available to the public... apparently this was not in response to a complaint ... but due to the fact that some 500 odd people in B.C. are over 100 yrs old, and their privacy would not be protected by the 100 year rule , so , the Gov't decided to extend it to 120 yrs .... that means that the last birth registrations released were those for 1903... and 1904 will be released in 2024.... note that they did not change marriage and death release dates(yet) sorry to be the bearer of such news , but if you check the LIST ARCHIVES, you can get some in depth info about the amendments Alf on Vancouver Island