This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------AE9103577ABE6B90A5316035 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FYI Ruth --------------AE9103577ABE6B90A5316035 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by stan.lcc.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA07316 for <mac@lcc.net>; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 20:54:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA27925; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:51:45 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:51:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <014f01be8c73$a389d740$510c02cc@cmp265r2> From: "Terry" <terrys@fbtc.net> Old-To: "New Gen Maillist" <NEWGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 20:53:05 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Subject: [NEWGEN-L] Fw: Texas Legislation Resent-Message-ID: <LXmSHD.A.L0G.xCoH3@bl-11.rootsweb.com> To: NEWGEN-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: NEWGEN-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <NEWGEN-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/10462 X-Loop: NEWGEN-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: NEWGEN-L-request@rootsweb.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I got this email today..... Does anyone know anything about this???? Terry ----- > EXPERT GENEALOGY > Editor: Jeannette Holland Austin > > Series: Vital Records > Subject: New Texas Legislation > Date: April 21, 1999 > > Last week I posted the wrong address for the FHC. The > correct address for the Family History Center Online is - > http://32.96.111.13/default.asp > > Here is an email message from Mic Barnett concerning Texas > Vital Records: > > HI Fellow Genealogists: > > In case you have not heard there is a bill in the Texas > Legislature that might close the indexes to death and birth > records in Texas for 25 and 50 years, respectfully. > > My column on Saturday April 24 will state most of what we > know about the bill at this time. The column is already on > my website at http://barnettesbooks.com Just click on read > the columns. Scroll down and click on April 24. > > The column was submitted this morning for a Saturday > publication date. Since being notified of this bill by > Tommy Burns of Houston, I have found out only a little bit > more. > > Supposedly, the bill was submitted to clarify the current > law. The intent of the bill was to clarify the existing law > and help open birth and death indexes in counties where the > county clerk felt they were closed (At the same time, other > county clerks felt the indexes were open). While in > committee an amendment was placed on the bill stating the > indexes would become open and public when the actual > records (birth and death records) became open and public. > According to the amendment the indexes would be closed for > 25-50 years until the records themselves are public. > > The HB 836 passed the Public Health Committee in the State > House of Representatives on March 30. It was referred to > the Senate State Affairs Committee. As of today, the bill > does not have a Senate sponsor. If we cause enough rancor, > it is possible no one will take on the sponsorship of the > bill and it will die in committee. On the otherhand, if a > sponsor is found, we want to be on record requesting a > hearing. At that hearing, we would need to flood the room > with genealogists and other concerned citizens. While a law > clarifying the present confusing law might be welcome, > amendment on HB 836 closes the birth and death indexes > until the actual records become public which is 25-50 > years. > > .Monday night I contacted Jack Brissee, Chair of the > FGS/NGS Records Preservation and Access Committee. Jack and > his committee work with genealogists and other > organizations all over the country when records are > threatened with closure or misuse. He jumped on it and has > faxed a letter to the Chair of the Senate State Affairs > Committee. He has urged everyone to contact all > genealogists, genealogical, historical and other concerned > organizations to write a calm, collected, but, concerned > letter to the Chair of the Senate Affairs Committee and to > our own Senator concerning this bill. > > The Honorable Florence Shapiro > Chair, Senate Committee on State Affairs > P.O.Box 12068 > Capital Station > Austin, TX 78711 > > > Another bill in the legislature each of you should be aware > of is HB13. This bill seeks to allow adoptees to obtain > their original birth certificate upon reaching the age of > 21. HB13 has met with the hostility of child placement > services and birth mothers. Currently it is held up in > committee where it may die. Part of the HB 13 awareness may > have had some effect on HB 836 because both have to do with > vital statistics registration > > If you wish to pass this letter around, please feel free to > do so. I have included this mailing to a number of my > columnist colleagues around the country who might wish to > be alert to what is happening, down here, in Texas. > > I would appreciate hearing from anyone who hears any news > on this matter. > > Thank You, > > MIC > > Mic Barnette's Writes a Weekly Genealogy Column In > The Houston Chronicle. Read it on the Web At Barnette's > Family Tree Book Company http://barnettesbooks.com > > > ================================== > BOOK REVIEWS > ================================== > THE WARREN FAMILY OF TRIGG COUNTY, > KENTUCKY by Martha Jane Stone. $49.95 > Postpaid, hard cover, 411 pp. > > This genealogy begins with the history of William > Henry Harrison Warren and his wife, Nancy Stewart. > Also includes his brothers, Manan, Timothy and Booker. > This 8 1/2 x 11" book contains the history and > genealogy of James Stewart, the immigrant ancestor, > and includes the states of Virginia, Kentucky, > Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas. 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In this and the subsequent > volumes, Mrs. Clark has endeavored to abstract all extant > muster rolls, pay rolls, vouchers, certificates, petitions, > and various other documents relating to the Loyalists who > were recruited for duty in the Southern Campaign of the > Revolutionary War, as well as documents relating to Loyalist > dependents, prisoners, refugees, and sympathizers--all data > deriving entirely from original records, many never before > available for research. > > In the preparation of this work the author surveyed the > manuscript holdings of various archies, libaries, and > private collections, ultimately producing this definitive > collection of official rolls which document the service of > approximately 15,000 Loyalists. The information available on > each person varies according to the nature of the record, of > course, but generally (in the case of soldiers), men are > listed by rank, with dates of service (enlistment, > discharge, etc.), place of service, company and regiment, > and remarks pertaining to their status---on active duty, > missing, deserted, killed, died, or sick. Other documents > abstracted -- petitions for back pay, widows' and orphans' > claims, and lists of refugees. > > Volume I contains mainly Loyalists recruited in the South > for duty (exclusive of Maryland and Virginia Loyalists, who > are dealt with in Volume II, which volume also covers > Pennsylvania who were merged with the Maryland Loyalits > toward the end of the war). > > C1006. LOYALISTS IN THE SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN OF THE > REVOLUTIONARY WAR, VOLUME II. 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