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.

Hi, As of today, the Texas birth index at Ancestry is on line and intact, as are CA, KY, NC, VT,. Will be interesting to see if they remain so. Thanks to everyone who responded to the original question--the dialog is always helpful. Sandy ----- Original Message ----- From: Wanda Gonzalez<mailto:mygeneologytree@yahoo.com> To: minnesota@rootsweb.com<mailto:minnesota@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 8:53 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<mailto:minnesota-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: -----Original Message----- From: minnesota-bounces@rootsweb.com<mailto: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<mailto:MINNESOTA-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message