All over the place, people have our information and we just believe we can trust them . . . all the employees at every hospital and medical clinic just as one example. In fact, in MN if you don't want your driver's license information SOLD by the state on mailing lists, you have to request that they not do this . . . for those who don't understand it, it is big business for some states!! And who knows what other companies are doing the same . . . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wanda Gonzalez" <mygeneologytree@yahoo.com> To: <minnesota@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [MINNESOTA] MINNESOTA Digest, Vol 1, Issue 38 >I know here in Texas (but yes, I am originally from Minnesota), anything >that was public knowledge that was after a certain time has all been >deleted. It is supposed to help lessen identity theft. Our voter >registrations are online in my county, but several months ago, they deleted >all the birthdates, regardless of when the person was born. For some time I >was doing some headstone hunting. Now several of the cemetaries I did the >hunting in won't give me any information to send to the families without >actual written permission. The family has to send the request in before I >can even ask for the plot location, and many will not accept an e-mail >submission as e-mails can be made up and 'forwarded'. It is sad that so >many of us who work with our family histories are having to go through all >of this. I have heavily relied on much information found on the internet >and saved the information until I could prove / disprove it to be in my >family history. > > Wanda > > minnesota-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: minnesota-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:minnesota-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of SANDY FAIRCHILD > Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 1:40 PM > To: Minnesota > Subject: [MINNESOTA] Minnesota Birth Index > > Hello listers, > > Has anyone else noticed the deletion of all birth dates on the Minnesota > Birth Index at Ancestry.com? This is the one that covers the period of > 1935-2002. In checking, it appears as though Ancestry is deleting the > birth > dates from other databases as well, which represents a huge loss to the > genealogy world.Am wondering if anyone has thoughts about why this is > happening! > > Sandy > > --------------------------------- > Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small > Business. > > ------------------------------- > 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 >