Roger Stevens wrote: > >> Stamford appears to be the only place in the United States that can't provide > help. I have been getting the same lame excuse for a long time. If the > town clerk can not do her job - then get a new one. I have been able to > get birth/death certificates by mail from every place in Connecticut, Rhode > Island, Massachusettes, Vermont, and elswhere - BUT NOT STAMFORD - She > must me a Gore Lieberman supporter. Actually, Roger, the cutback in staff at the Stamford Town Clerk's office started during Republican administrations. ;-) Prior to about 1920, there were no individual certificates for Stamford vital records--they were all recorded in very big, very old ledger books which take a long time to go through. Stamford was a fairly large town at the turn of the century and a lot of people came through here. I imagine the Town Clerk's office gets a lot of requests for back records. Having gone through the records there myself, I'm not surprised that they find it difficult to respond. It's also very busy currently--every time I'm in there, there are at least five or six people waiting for copies of their own vital records certificates. There is a volunteer group through Rootsweb that is in the process of transcribing the Stamford records. Maybe at some future point they will be more accessible. Lois elseajay@earthlink.net > >