Who was it that said the Law is an Ass !!! It cannot be copied, but you can have access to the entire index (time permitting) and presumabely write down every entry you wish, even if its the entire contents !!! Sounds like their on the same scam as here in UK, when a library has to pay around £10,000 for a copy of the GRO index on film. A good reason to keep it offline. Adrian Mary Stack <mstack@rochester.rr.com> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [NYERIE] Death Certificates from NYS verses the local Town or City.... > The microfiche index of Birth, Death & Marriages that occurred in NYS and > registered with the State starting about 1881 are available in Albany at the > NYS Archives, in Syracuse at the Onondaga County Public Library Central > Branch-Local History & Genealogy Dept., in Rochester in the Rundell Library, and in > Buffalo in a Library (I haven't been to that one so I can't give you the > exact name.) > > NYS Law states that the index cannot be online nor copied. The libraries > that got the microfiche index copies had to go thorough intense training so this > is tightly enforced. One must show ID to use it and you are restricted to the > number you may have to look at each time (3 at a time in Syracuse, unlimited > total number for the day, however). > > hope that helps > > ______________________________ ==== NYERIE Mailing List ==== To contact the List Administrator: Dick Rose See the Archived Messages at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx Adrian Furminger http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~furminger/ KFHS member 10278 NWKFHS member 6018 http://www.Kent-opc.org.uk