It was only maybe 6 or 7 years ago and we were on a vacation/genealogy research trip in West Virginia. We walked into the office in Charleston and got copies of my husband's LIVING aunts and uncles BIRTH certs without any ID and they were something ridiculous like $3.00 each! They did not have one of his aun'ts birth record so we looked on the microfilms at the Archives, my husband found it and we drove to the town where she was born and got a certified copy for her WITHOUT showing any ID! NY & NJ are just very difficult states to deal with. Judy Wolf ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

I read somewhere a few years ago that New York State was the "black hole of genealogy". New Jersey must be second in line.LOL. Maureen ----- Original Message ----- From: <WOLF6PACK@aol.com> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:04 PM Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] Vital Records & drivers license > It was only maybe 6 or 7 years ago and we were on a vacation/genealogy > research trip in West Virginia. We walked into the office in Charleston > and got > copies of my husband's LIVING aunts and uncles BIRTH certs without any > ID and > they were something ridiculous like $3.00 each! They did not have one of > his > aun'ts birth record so we looked on the microfilms at the Archives, my > husband found it and we drove to the town where she was born and got a > certified > copy for her WITHOUT showing any ID! > > NY & NJ are just very difficult states to deal with. > > Judy Wolf > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message