> I am doing a study at University on Copyright, Data Protection and > Freedom Of Information Acts and how they effect the family > historian. I particularly want to focus on the various closure > rules that relate to documentation. Can any one suggest and source > books or websites etc that may be useful from an academic point of > view? Anyone know where I may find out what law states what length > of closure should apply to what document type etc. Any help / > advice gratefully received. > > Wendy > NW England > "Sportysprout" Good Morning! In Texas we also are fighting closures. Some of them quite ridiculous. They already have closed ALL birth and marriage indexes. They claim due to identity theft. Well, you can get the same info off of a headstone that you can get in an index. Besides that if you do a public records search as in looking for a criminal you can get the info. I am all for nothing but the birth being public unless the person is deceased, but once they are deceased it is all public. They also are trying to close the SS death records. Kasey Alvarez-Duckworth http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/l/v/Kasey-L-Alvarezduckworth/ Kasey Alvarez-Duckworth <ms_historybuff@yahoo.com>