Cynthia, I value your comments and constant sharing of information greatly. I will forward this to Holly. Dick Hillenbrand Myself, I think any kind of restriction on these indexes, in any manner whatsoever, by the state is just plain silly! The time limit restrictions being met, who cares? Most all of these people are dead and gone, or at least over the hilll. \gin/ On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Cynthia Van Ness <[email protected]> wrote: > That's actually kind of worrisome. When BECPL got the same > index, they were told that look-ups were to be done in person > and that it was against State health department lawsfor staff to > offer remote look-ups. Violations would result in the index > being withdrawn. > > --- Dick Hillenbrand <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Read our latest Blog with some additional information > > regarding the eight > > sets of NYS microfiche indexes to Births, Deaths and Marriages > > for most of > > the Upstate New York areas. Now one of the libraries is > > offering to do free > > lookups! > > > > Read the story on Upstate New York Genealogy Blog at > > http://ny-genes.blogspot.com. > > > > Dick Hillenbrand > > www.unyg.com > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-* > Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com > http://www.BuffaloResearch.com > > "Everyone claims to want a city, but no one here wants city living. City > living by its definition is crowded. It is tolerant of other people. It is > dependent on a sophisticated population that makes a hundred compromises > daily so that they can benefit from the collective energy that a city > generates." --Robert N. Davis, Jr. (1955-2007) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

--- Dick Hillenbrand <[email protected]> wrote: > Myself, I think any kind of restriction on these indexes, in > any manner > whatsoever, by the state is just plain silly! The time limit > restrictions > being met, who cares? Most all of these people are dead and > gone, or at least over the hilll. \gin/ You may well be right, but we pay our public servants to protect us. If someone figured out a way to exploit the indexes for large scale identity theft, we'd be screaming bloody murder because the regulations were too lax. I don't know if identity theft is a credible threat (maybe it is not) but I do know that the Health Department would be irresponsible to ignore the possibility. *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-* Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com http://www.BuffaloResearch.com "Everyone claims to want a city, but no one here wants city living. City living by its definition is crowded. It is tolerant of other people. It is dependent on a sophisticated population that makes a hundred compromises daily so that they can benefit from the collective energy that a city generates." --Robert N. Davis, Jr. (1955-2007)