And am I ever happy that this happened. I stumbled across the proposed legislation while whacking the bushes for Spences, Spencers, Baileys, etc. the other day. One member of my local DAR chapter just recently got her birth certificates from Iowa and she said they gave her the third degree when she requested them: "Well, WHY do you want these???" etc. etc. Several years ago, I sent away for all birth records, death certificates, and marriages records that I knew were available in the State Bureau of Vital Statistics, and was so glad that I had done this when I stumbled across this legislation. I am glad the bill was defeated. Barbara Dr. Barbara Inman Beall, Ph.D, BIBeall@email.msn.com, BBeall43@yahoo.com Lancaster-Wormiston Press P.O. Box 173 Broomfield, CO 80038-0173 Home Page and for Access to Website: http://mail.ancestry.com/ancestry/users/bibeall -----Original Message----- From: Nandeeclay@aol.com <Nandeeclay@aol.com> To: SPENCER-L@rootsweb.com <SPENCER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, February 24, 2000 11:05 AM Subject: IOWA BIRTH RECORD BILL >Those of you on multiple lists -- sorry you are getting this more than once, >but I wanted to notify all the lists I was on --- > >In todays Des Moines Register was the following article: > >Birth certificate bill is scraped > A legislative panel scrapped a proposal that would have made it more >difficult to gain access to birth certificates and other records. > The House Human Resources Committee rejected the proposal to tighten the >access, which was made to help prevent identity theft. > "There was a public uproar over it," said Rep. Gary Blodgett, a Clear >Lake Republican. > Genealogists opposed the bill because it would have made the researching >family histories more difficult. A Senate committee rejected a similar >proposal earlier in the week. > > >SO -- WAY TO GO -- IOWA IS KEEPING THE RECORD SEARCH AS IS FOR NOW. THANKS >TO ALL WHO WROTE REQUESTING THAT THEY NOT CLOSE THE RECORDS, OR MAKE THEM >HARDER TO RESEARCH. > >Nancy in DM, Iowa >