In a message dated 5/18/02 7:12:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time, OREGON-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << Did you stop to think where taxes are going to support budgets? In-state taxes are used. None of taxes from out of state. Same thing when you get hunting or fishing licenses, out of state are higher than residents' in just about every state. David >> I can understand the higher fees for out-of-state hunting and fishing licenses... I believe this is due to the effect of reduction of Oregon natural resources by a non-Oregon resident.... but having higher fees for a non-resident genealogist??, I cannot see their reasoning... I would not be depleting any Oregon resources by requesting an Obit :-) LOL I have No quarrel with increasing fees to cover rising costs. I understand this might be necessary to keep the archives available for future use... However, what I Do have a problem with is the inequitable charges assessed between "Residents" and the non-resident requesters. Sure, if there are additional fees for long distance telephone calls or more postage needed, by all means pass those along to that particular requester... but last time I checked, it cost the same to mail a letter inside Oregon as it did to send it from Oregon to Vancouver, Washington :-) And remember, many of those ancestors in those archives paid Oregon taxes. And those of us who pay Oregon taxes through payroll, but live in other states, should be considered. Last I heard, Oregon did not break out personal income taxes between residents and non-residents when accepting monies for their budgets. I believe a fee to cover a certain type of lookup should be the same for both residents and non-residents. >>> SAY>>> Does Oregon have microfilmed birth certificates and a birth index like Washington State does?? If so, do you know where they can that be viewed? I regularly search the WA birth index and certificates at the local LDS... one day I made a trip to a Portland LDS, and was surprised that they did not have the indexes or certificates in their films.... Do they exist for Oregon just like Washington? Thanks! Pat

Be thankful you can get those records at all ,be fore email , you would have had to pay a lot more than that to have a pro geno. get em for you ----- Original Message ----- From: <GNINNAH@aol.com> To: <OREGON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 9:52 PM Subject: Re: [OREGON] Why "Out of State" fees higher ? > In a message dated 5/18/02 7:12:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > OREGON-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > << Did you stop to think where taxes are going to support budgets? In-state > taxes are used. None of taxes from out of state. Same thing when you get > hunting or fishing licenses, out of state are higher than residents' in > just about every state. > David >> > > I can understand the higher fees for out-of-state hunting and fishing > licenses... I believe this is due to the effect of reduction of Oregon > natural resources by a non-Oregon resident.... but having higher fees for a > non-resident genealogist??, I cannot see their reasoning... I would not be > depleting any Oregon resources by requesting an Obit :-) LOL > > I have No quarrel with increasing fees to cover rising costs. I understand > this might be necessary to keep the archives available for future use... > However, what I Do have a problem with is the inequitable charges assessed > between "Residents" and the non-resident requesters. > > Sure, if there are additional fees for long distance telephone calls or more > postage needed, by all means pass those along to that particular requester... > but last time I checked, it cost the same to mail a letter inside Oregon as > it did to send it from Oregon to Vancouver, Washington :-) > > And remember, many of those ancestors in those archives paid Oregon taxes. > And those of us who pay Oregon taxes through payroll, but live in other > states, should be considered. Last I heard, Oregon did not break out > personal income taxes between residents and non-residents when accepting > monies for their budgets. > > I believe a fee to cover a certain type of lookup should be the same for both > residents and non-residents. > > > >>> SAY>>> > > Does Oregon have microfilmed birth certificates and a birth index like > Washington State does?? If so, do you know where they can that be viewed? > > > I regularly search the WA birth index and certificates at the local LDS... > one day I made a trip to a Portland LDS, and was surprised that they did not > have the indexes or certificates in their films.... Do they exist for > Oregon just like Washington? > > Thanks! > Pat > > > ==== OREGON Mailing List ==== > Welcome to the OREGON LIST > To Search the OREGON-L or leave the lists use this link to the Oregon-L > web site http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/OR/misc.html > Oregon Archives http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >