back I the days of "snail mail" it was not unusual for me to go through three 100-stamp rolls per month . . . I put them on return envelopes that I addressed or I added post cards with my phone number etc. I found info that is and never will be on the net, little churches, little cemeteries . . . many things . . . tracked things down by phone too . . . however, not to have the dates of those over 100 years old is going to make it very tough to do our tracing back that far . . . at best they weren't all listed, but those that were at least ruled out certain places you didn't need to look . . . HOWEVER, my question is . . . is this connected to Homeland Security OR is it connected to more small packages being put together by ancestry.com that people will have to purchase in order to get the "full blown" US collection? If that is what is going on, then it does anger me . . . you purchase one thing and you end up with something different!! When things like this happen without explanation, it gives one pause to consider the REASON!! ----- Original Message ----- From: <Hcounter@aol.com> To: <minnesota@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 4:51 AM Subject: Re: [MINNESOTA] Minnesota Birth Index > > In a message dated 10/22/2006 3:08:41 PM Central Daylight Time, > jreck@ecenet.com writes: > > well you can't get information about births at any courthouse that I've > contacted either, most of them will verify info if you have it all > written > and they go to the ledger, but some won't even do that much. > > And this is not just for MN, pick a name to type in on ancestry and look > that birth column . . . just lists the state! > > > > So we are back to doing some research the hard way. Mail shots, etc. > That > is what I used when I first started this hobby 30+ years ago, and can do > it > again. It actually netted me many more "live" cousins that I have gotten > to > know than just using info on the net has done. > > Annie in Minnesota > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MINNESOTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >