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

Deletion of birthdates theory on why? Could it be a legal problem, or perhaps done so more records can be sold. Just money perhaps? Would it help to ask them why? Don

Was it just recently that a laptop computer with hundreds of thousands of medical patients records lost or stolen in the Twin Cities? That might be a reason for the recent pull out of all information. SCB -----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 ------------------------------- 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