Jo Boom, > Wouldn't this be a great idea for all Cities, Counties and States? Yes the idea is great to provide 100 year old information to relatives! I hope this does not sound cynical. How much does your Genealogical Society pay to use records the grieving families paid to record? How did you get permission from all the families to provide private personal information? I'm sure their "right to privacy" prevents the sale of "recently recorded records" without the families permission. Has your Society had any law suits over selling these records a second time? Craig Watkins > Our Genealogical Society has got permission, a few years ago, to copy, > print, and sell the funeral home records in our town. > The Society copies the records, then goes to the courthouse to see if > there is any more information there that can be added, If there happens > to be a discrepancy, we use the original record from the funeral home. > These are called "Funeral Home" books "not" death records. If the > funeral home gets a call for information the inquirer is directed to the > society. This saves the Funeral Director time, and also helps our > society financially. If anything ever happens to the funeral home, the > records are saved, several times over!!!! These old records are > sometimes invaluable. May be some > of the other societies might try this, to preserve the information. Our > society is very grateful to both of our Funeral Directors.