Hello Theresa and Everyone Else, I have a request for a death certificate that is now over a year old (December 26, 1999). No response yet from the State Records Center. I also have copies of two death certificates that a private citizen sent me from the Archives a couple of months after I requested them from the state. The State Records Center then sent me a "NO RECORD CERTIFICATION" for those two death certificates. I sent the proof of the apparent incompetence, laziness, or apathy, now exhibited by the State Records Center, to both the governor and the attorney-general. It's my opinion that the NO RECORD CERTIFICATIONs issued by the State Records Center are not reliable, and not evidence of a careful search. The response time for certificates used to be approximately 30 days, but the State Records Center has moved to a new "state-of-the-art" facility and the response time and product are now dismal. You may want to send your complaints to the following addresses: Christine Todd-Whitman Office of the Governor P.O. Box 001 Trenton, NJ 08625 Telephone (609) 292-6000 John Farmer Office of the Attorney General Hughes Justice Complex 25 Market Street - PO Box 080 Trenton, NJ 08625-0080 Telephone (609) 292-8740 Fax (609) 292-3508 Ken Forbes Puyallup, WA ----- Original Message ----- From: <TWD151@aol.com> To: <NJHUDSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 12:54 PM Subject: [NJHUDSON-L] Death Certificate Request > I sent a request and a check to the State Registrar NJ Health Dept. of Health > on Sept. 24, 2000. The check was cashed October 27, 2000. It is now Jan. 6, > 2001 and I have not heard one word from that august Department. Is this the > usual amount of time it takes to get an answer? I'm getting just little bit > weary waiting. > > Anyone with similar experience? Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Theresa > TWD151@aol.com > > > ==== NJHUDSON Mailing List ==== > Use NJHUDSON-L@rootsweb.com to write to the NJHUDSON list. > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the NJHUDSON list, use > NJHUDSON-L-request@rootsweb.com.