--This is ESSENTIAL! I have lost 2 daughters to a VERY rare disease, which is genetic, and recessive. This means that it can jump as many as 20 generations. For this disease to be passed on, BOTH parents must have the same mutation on the same gene and chromosom. There are only 350 people in the world who have this disorder. It's a horrible disease, with much suffering, for the patient, and the family! We ALL need help with this kind of thing! I didn't marry a cousin, we were not even born in the same state, and I am of Polish descent, he is mostly Danish, with ONE German great grand parent! But his ONE German and my Poles might, somewhere way back have been connected in some way! We NEED to know this stuff! If we had known it we might not have had to go through the terrible loss of our two youngest children! And we wouldn't be worrying now about our grandchildren! Jan Birkner LIVE, FREE genealogy help at www.genealogyforum.org ---- [email protected] wrote: > > > besides being into all below i am political > the bill is promoted by the mass. clerks assoc. so you should call your > town or city clerk > the senate and reps yeah but what to say that will get them gulping > > The U.S. surgeon general said all americans need to do their family tree > for health reasons > they will tell you it is to comply with federal law so federal reasons will > work. > what if you have a genetic condition how can you find out about cousins if > you dont have acceess. maybe you dont know about them due to family spats. > and that person holds the key. you wont know > maybe your wife , aunt , mom needs the info for better treatment > > > In a message dated 6/19/2006 3:45:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > >From the web page of the MA genealogical council - I cut and pasted this, as > they are encouraging us to follow up. > > MASSACHUSETTS GENEALOGICAL COUNCIL > Established 1980 > P.O. Box 5393 > Cochituate, Massachusetts 01778-5393 > > LEGISLATIVE ALERT...LEGISLATIVE ALERT...LEGISLATIVE ALERT... > > MGC urges all genealogists who care about access to vital records to act > now! Legislative bills (H-3642, H-3643, and H-3644, petitioned by Plymouth > Rep. Thomas J. O'Brien, et al.), currently pending in the Massachusetts > House Ways and Means Committee, are being pushed for passage within two > weeks. They will close public records that have been open for 365 years [see > item #48] as well as the indexes to them. We all must contact our > Massachusetts state Representatives and Senators to oppose these three > (O'Brien) > bills for the following reasons: > The bills call for restricting access to all birth records since 1915 and > all marriage and death records since 1955. These records are currently open > public records and are the entry point for genealogical and medical history > research. > Restricting public access to the indexes of these records is unprecedented. > It will deny use by all non-governmental individuals: researchers in > genealogy, medical history, probate heirs, banks, journalists, and > historians. > Contact should be made immediately. We stopped these bills in 2003 - but now > support for them in the legislature is formidable. If YOU don't speak now, > these bills will change the face of genealogy in Massachusetts and beyond. > MOST EFFECTIVE: a signed letter > with your reasons for opposing these closures, using your own words. > ALSO: telephone calls, face to face meetings, and e-mails. > SHARE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT: urge your sympathetic relatives, friends, > neighbors, and the professionals listed above to do the same. > > > Contact information for your representatives and senators is available from: > http://www.mass.gov/legis/ > your town clerk's office > the state house at (617) 722-2000 > The postal address is: > > > Representative (or Senator) _______, State House, Room _______, Boston, MA > 02133. > > > > > > > > Jim Denning -Ygenealogist-MTgenealogist > using Genetics to connect > Chelsea,Ma.-Woburn,Ma.-denning-dennen > -danin-dinan-dinihey-denningston-dinning-carlon-carroll-dever-cogan-malone-heslin-piscopo-mazzola-martini-farrell-mchug > h-farley-grimes-lynch-doherty-SanDanto,Ita-Adargh,longford-Revere,Ma-Wintrop,M > a.- and ever an growing list > List owner of > Irish-dna,Piscopo-l-Heslin-l,McHugh-l,Cogan-l-Machelsea-l,Ita-Frosinone-l,Mazzola-l-Duggan-l > Project Manager of Chelsea Ma. Genetics Project,Denning&Variants > Project-Farrell Genetics Project-The Cogan Project- the Duggan Project- County Longford > Project-Frosinone Italy Project-Parramatta-Sydney Project- Hannibal > MO-QuincyIL Project-Brighton-NewtonMA Project > > > ==== MASUFFOL Mailing List ==== > ALHN/AHGP New Hampshire Civil War History and Genealogy Project > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nh/topic/civilwar/ > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx