Friends, Here is still another story to this vital records/drivers license episode. A few years ago, I was in the Bedford V/R office. Even though I am a member of the WCGS and CT Ancestry, and provided credentials from both organizations as well as showing my drivers license, they would not let me look at their register books to find a death that probably occured about 100 years ago. They said that I might try to steal a whole page out of their register. I offered to look at the register book while it was on their counter and only in plain view of their eyes, but to no avail. They said they would look for the death record if I could provide the year of death. I didn't know the year, and that was my purpose in being there. And then salt was poured into my wounds with the statement "Gov Pataky says....." So much for genealogy research in Bedford NY. George Hoyt in CA ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
Hi George, I've read horror stories of overeager genealogists riping out pp and such. One thing we have all got to realize is that these people are not being paid to help us with our family history searches. Maureen ----- Original Message ----- From: <GWGEHoyt@aol.com> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 6:59 PM Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] Vital Records & drivers license > Friends, > > Here is still another story to this vital records/drivers license episode. > > A few years ago, I was in the Bedford V/R office. Even though I am a > member > of the WCGS and CT Ancestry, and provided credentials from both > organizations > as well as showing my drivers license, they would not let me look at their > register books to find a death that probably occured about 100 years ago. > They > said that I might try to steal a whole page out of their register. I > offered to > look at the register book while it was on their counter and only in plain > view > of their eyes, but to no avail. They said they would look for the death > record if I could provide the year of death. I didn't know the year, and > that was > my purpose in being there. And then salt was poured into my wounds with > the > statement "Gov Pataky says....." So much for genealogy research in > Bedford > NY. > > George Hoyt in CA > > > ************************************** > 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