I missed the original post, article, pending legislation, or whatever that precipitated this. Can you please give us some background on this? Is something deliberate or new going on, or is this just a reaction to the extremely slow and typically poor response from the NJ State Department of Health and Human Services? I requested two certificates a year ago December. One came in July; the other never arrived. I wrote a letter in February and yesterday received two additional copies of the same certificate they had sent before. I still do not have the second person's certificate that I requested a year ago December. I know NJ has a huge deficit and I would not be surprised if they decided to curtail the already abysmal help they have at the Department of Health and Human Services. I rather pay more, if they promised to hire and train competent staff. I must say I have had nothing but excellent, insightful, and timely responses from the New Jersey State Archives. I only wish that all my NJ family had died before June 1, 1878! Tali in Hayward, California -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 6:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NJCAMDEN] Re: [NJBurlin] Re:Requests for Certificates -- Dept. Health Services Hi, Here is the phone # for Assemblywoman Loretta Weinberg, Chairwoman of the Assembly Health and Human Services Committee @ 201-928-0100 or call the Legislative offices for info.at 609-292-4840 or 1-800-792-8630 (toll-free in NJ only) to request resolution of this continuing problem. Sorry to send to all the lists for those that subscribe to more than one! Joan In a message dated 3/11/02 8:41:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > In a message dated 3/11/02 3:16:57 PM, [email protected] writes: > > >http://www.state.nj.us/health/feedback.htm > > Here is my message to the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior > Services, and their response (so far). > Gordon Adams: [email protected] > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ _ > > > > > > > NJ Deptartment of Health and Senior Services > Thank you for writing. Your feedback is valuable to us and will be > used to improve and expand this > undertaking. If you are requesting a response, someone will get back > > to you as soon as possible. Please > continue to e-mail us to let us know what you think. > > You wrote > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Name: Gordon S. Adams > Phone Number: (650)961-4109 Ext > E-mail: [email protected] > Mailing Address > Street: 1256 Balboa Ct., #4 > City: Sunnyvale > State: California > Zip: 94086 > Subject: Difficulty_impossibility of receiving ancestral > documents > Comments: > > I am a genealogist with many relatives and ancestors in New Jersey records. > I > belong to about 25 different, > internet, genealogical maillists, and genealogical/historical societies. I > correspond frequently with other > genealogists around the world on such matters. Those maillists have > recently > contained info which indicates that the > State of New Jersey, or more specifically, the New Jersey Department of > Health and Senior Services has now made it > almost impossible for genealogists to obtain New Jersey type, archive info > on > their ancestors. There are many > complaints about this.If this is true, it weems to be contrary to New > Jersey's policy of making such info available > to the public, and is a slap in the face to genealogists. Please advise. > Thank you. > >