North Haven's records are fully accessible! The clerks there are cooperative and helpful and quick in getting things done! There's a small distance and a world of difference between North Haven and New Haven, CT! Melody MaryLynn McCloskey wrote: > What? I just sent for my great grandfather's BC in > North Haven. He's been dead since the early 60s and > was born in 1896. I shouldn't expect to receive it? > Geez, Cuyahoga County in Ohio has an online database > of marriage records and I brought up my parents > marriage from 1960 right on the internet! > MaryLynn > --- elizabeth godfrey <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know your frustration. I had the same problem. > > Went to the Woodbridge, > > Conn Town Clerk for information on my great > > grandparents. She said because > > I was not a certified genealogest I could not have > > the info. Conn. has some > > kind of crazy law. Perhaps you could find the info > > from copies of the > > records made by the Morman Church. They went to > > every town and city (years > > ago) and photocopied all the records. If no luck, > > send a letter to the Town > > Clerk, certified, and cite the "Right to Know Law" > > in Conn. You will have > > to go on line under Conn., then get the RSA#. Also, > > perhaps send an e-mail > > to the New England Gen. Society, in Boston, and ask > > where and how you can > > get these records. I have to leave right now for a > > Dr.s apt. But if you > > have no luck, I just copied the New Eng. Gen. & > > Hist. Society web site. I > > can give it to you if you can't get yoiur info. > > Elizabeth Rousseau Godfrey > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Grace Coffman" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 6:05 PM > > Subject: [CTNEWHAV] Gah! Can anyone help with a > > birth record? > > > > > > > For some reason the Vital Records town clerk keeps > > sending my request to > > > obtain a birth record back to me saying "We do not > > do Genealogical > > research" > > > Well I didnt *ask* them to do research, I asked > > them to mail me the BC! > > > Bleck.. so now I dont know what to do - this is > > the second time they sent > > it > > > back to me- Im in Nebraska so can't go do it > > myself... can anyone help me > > > with this? :( > > > > > > Ive ordered marriage and death certs from the town > > clerk with no problem, > > > this is just too weird. Its over the 100 year > > limit so anyone should be > > able > > > to obtain these! > > > > > > Looking for: Birth record for: Laurence (Lawrence) > > Byington born 1882, > > > father is Edwin Minor Byington and mother is > > Harriet I. Dudley. If anyone > > > has any suggesstions or can help a poor researcher > > out, I'd certainly > > > appreciate it! > > > > > > -Grace > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > > > To post messages to the New Haven County, CT > > discussion list, send them to > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion > > online genealogy records, > > go to: > > > > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > > Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? > > Send her an email > > at <[email protected]>. > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion > > online genealogy records, go to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > > ==== CTNEWHAV Mailing List ==== > Please do not send messages with attachments, HTML, MIME, or any other > enhanced text to the list. RootsWeb does not allow messages with those > settings through their servers and will only return them to you. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237