Folks, you might want to add to your note when contacting your Representative-something like this: Thanks Reta for passing this on. Gloria "Please note that a non-certified copy of a birth certificate is not valid for ANY legal identification within the United States. An uncertified copy should send up "red flags" immediately, and anyone using such records for identification should be detained and questioned. A genealogist does not require that their copies be certified, unless they are requesting entrance to an organization that requires this, for example, the DAR and the SAR. This bill would greatly hamper any person's ability to be accepted into those American institutions." Something like that. They need to understand that the problem is CERTIFIED certificates, not the non-certified.