First off, greetings! snip<Similarly, while Davis has now restricted access to the state's full birth and death record databases, it is still legal in most cases for an individual to get an official copy of anyone's birth certificate.>snip Being this is still the case, what is the point might I ask? I suppose it means only those that have real interest in finding out about someone will pursue these indexes (terrorist or not). Frankly, I was horrified when the California Birth Index was released online. I actually emailed rootsweb.com and asked them to REMOVE certain individuals in my family. They never even bothered to reply and now they wonder what the chink in the armor was that has led to the destruction of their superiorty complex with respect to geneaological records? Fortunately, my late father had two identities established shortly after birth & he appears in the death index under the wrong name. No one could steal his identity (nor my grandfather - he had THREE identities thanks to the quake of 1906). I wonder how many other "old folks" may be or were in this situation? Luckily when you are dead you are dead according to a law passed in 1988. *sigh* So much for doing any sort of bonafide/genuine geneaological research given all the civil liberties we are now surrendering on a daily basis. S. F. O'Donnell >From: George Rushton <george_rushton@yahoo.com> >To: CASANFRA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [CASANFRA] Article from the San Jose Mercury, on the issue of >C.A.B.I. >Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 11:34:43 -0800 (PST) > >You might want to read this article from Saturday's >San Jose Mercury News, on the issue of privacy and the >C.A.B.I. It is I think a well balanced story. ><http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/front/docs/privacy08.htm> > >George > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Send your FREE holiday greetings online! >http://greetings.yahoo.com > _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com