"Ken Forbes" <excel@nwrain.com> wrote: > 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. > Have you attempted to get your death certificates from Hudson County? When the state put a moratorium on genealogy requests I began requesting everything from the county. Only once were they not able to find a record (my grandfathers death certificate) which I later found myself in Trenton. The response time, for me, has been about 3 weeks. The address is: Room 407 Administration Bldg. 595 Newark Avenue Jersey City, NJ 07306-2301 -- Judy Lamken, Kilkee Kerries Hoffman Estates, IL mailto:kilkee@mediaone.net "He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion" -- Unknown