The current records are kept at Dept of Vital Stats, and can only be obtained with proper ID and only by certain relatives. The older records are of concerns. I am from DE, and the state policy is as follows: "The Delaware Public Archives houses birth certificates created since 1913 that are 72 years or older and death and marriage certificates 40 years old or older. This means that we only have birth certificates up through and including 1933, and marriage and death certificates up through and including 1965." Clara -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Allan Rowe" <asrj43@covcable.com> > You haven't been able to access birth or death records for several years in > Georgia so this is nothing new. > > > ==== KING Mailing List ==== > List webpage - http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/k/king.html > Genealogy Links - http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/GEN-links.htm >

In Georgia Certified copies of death records are available from 1919 to the present. Death certificates are available to the general public. The person requesting a certified copy of a death record must provide the following information and a signed request: 1.. Full name of deceased, 2.. Date of death (month, day, year), 3.. Place of death (city, county), 4.. Age of deceased at death, 5.. Sex, 6.. Race (optional), 7.. The number of copies requested. 8.. Relationship to deceased. Birth records are available from 1919 to the present. Georgia law and Department of Human Resources regulation require that all requests for vital records include the signature of the requestor and the proper fee. Access to birth records is limited to: a.. the person named on the certificate b.. the parents shown on the birth record c.. an authorized legal guardian or agent d.. grandparents of the person named on the certificate e.. an adult child of the person named on the certificate f.. an adult sibling of the person named on the certificate g.. the spouse of the person named on the certificate At one time the Probate Judge's office in my county had a log of birth and death records that anyone could look at. Not anymore. The law changed a few years ago and you can no longer look at these records. This makes it difficult to verify that someone is actually an ancestor, especially if you are making an educated guess. Allan