Perhaps, your e-mail should be forwarded to those proposing the NJ bill. GInni -----Original Message----- From: GmDjones51@aol.com [mailto:GmDjones51@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 7:18 PM To: NJ-GSNJ-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Michigan Genealogical Records An interesting turn of events. Here we are in NJ trying to close off our Vital Records and a Senator in Michigan has proposed a bill to turn theirs over to the State Library of Michigan to facilitate genealogical research. Wouldn't it be nice if our legislators were as forward thinking? Mike To all genealogists living in Michigan. Please write your State Representative and urge him or her to support Senate Bill 0795 which would allow the State Registrar's Office to release certain vital records over 75 years old to the State Library of Michigan in order to be made available to the public and aid genealogical research. See the following for the text of the bill as it was passed by the State Senate: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/(b05te445dkzcrmawzrybyb45)/mileg.aspx?page=Bil lS tatus&objectname=2005-SB-0795 ______________________________