>Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:03:34 -0300 >From: "John MacLeod" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> > >11 June 2004 > >Nova Scotia Makes More Genealogical Vital Statistics Available > >More birth, marriage and death record information will now be >available to researchers, under an agreement between Nova Scotia Archives and >Records Management and Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations. > >"Birth records will become available 100 years after the birth >occurred, marriage records 75 years after the event and death records >50 years after the death," said Liz Crowley Meagher, deputy registrar >general, Vital Statistics, SNSMR. > >Effective immediately, Service Nova Scotia will transfer vital >statistics records to NSARM on a regular basis. The Archives will >microfilm or scan the original documents to preserve their integrity >and make the film or electronic copies available to researchers. > >"In future years, we should be able to make the information available >in a timely fashion but the tremendous volume of records received from >Service Nova Scotia in this first transfer means that it will be some >time before everything is freely available," said Lois Yorke, manager >of Public Services, NSARM. > >In the interim, Archives staff will make copies of original documents >available on request, and there will be a $20 charge for this service. > >"We know the community appreciates the value of the information that >is now in our hands and we ask for their understanding as we undertake >our preservation and microfilming process," said Ms. Yorke. > >More information is available on the NSARM website >(www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/vitalstats/). > >Media Contact: >Lois K. Yorke, Manager, Public Services; Nova Scotia Archives & >Records >Management >Phone: (902) 424-6068 >___________________________________________ >nsroots mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.ednet.ns.ca/cgi-bin/listinfo/nsroots