The Senate vote on HB 100, titled "An act relating to security of vital records," is scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, March 23rd. You still have a few hours left to have a say in this matter, and concerned parties have been invited to do so. (1-800-372-7181) As I understand it, if this act passes tomorrow, no retiree living today will EVER have access to their ancestors' birth records. Those records began in 1911. The birth certificates for 1911 will become available to the public in 2011. In 2012, we will be able to see the birth certificates for people born in 1912, and so forth. Calculate your age and do the math. Some stand a better chance than others, but no matter who you are, you can forget about the birth certificates for your aunts, uncles and cousins. You will not live long enough to see those. In my opinion, 100 years is too long a period of time to restrict birth records, and I would hope that death records and marriage might be restricted for a shorter period of time as well. Brett Guthrie is the Senator for Warren and Butler counties. The people in his office are very interested in our concerns about this bill. Any person interested in the passage or failure of HB 100 has been invited to telephone the following number and express his or her feelings about the bill. You get a live person, who takes down what you say and passes it to the senator of your choice. (1-800-372-7181) A list is compiled of the number of people for and against the bill, and that figure is definitely taken into consideration. You may limit your objection to that part of the bill restricting birth records for 100 years, marriages and divorces for 70 years, and deaths for 50 years. The telephone number is 1-800-372-7181 You can find your senator at http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/whoswho/whoswho.htm You can read the entire bill at http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/record/04rs/HB100/SCS1.doc If you live out of state, you can also express your past or present desires (if any) to travel to Kentucky and spend your money here, while you do research. I do not object to the entire bill. I do find it incredible that hope of preventing identity theft is considered greater from a 1911 birth certificate than from ever once (1) logging onto the internet, (2) using a credit card, or (3) obtaining a driver's license---all activities which are not restricted by the government in any way. TennTuckie