Chuck, Are you doing genealogical work for someone other than yourself? If it's for you, list whatever the relationship is...ie: 2nd great grandparent, Great Aunt, 1st Cousin once removed, etc. I have used these relationships and never encountered any problems. If it is for someone else and you are not related in any manner, get the person you are doing the work for to make the request - that's worked for me as well. I will forewarn you that they can be slow (very slow)...they say 6 - 7 weeks, but my last one took 13 weeks (and I only got it then because I emailed and called). Hopefully that was an isolated incident. Good luck! Todd Zeigler ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 4:42:33 PM Subject: [PAYork] Birth/Death Certificates from PA Vital Records. Quote from the PA Vital Records: "Certifiedcopies of birth records may be issued only to the person named on the record,parent, grandparent, spouse (excluding common-law), brother, sister,child, grandchild, guardian possessing court order, or their legal representative." Does anyone know how to obtain copies of birth/death certificates for genealogical use if one does not meet the above requirement? I live in Texas. Thanks Chuck ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAYORK ********* Messages posted to the RootsWeb/Ancestry PAYORK Message Board are gatewayed to this Mailing List. Remember that the author of gatewayed messages may not be a list subscriber so please reply to gatewayed messages by clicking on the link and replying on the board. ************ Visit the York County, Pennsylvania USGENWEB Project at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~payork/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message