I am all for this but when I attempted to get birth certificates that I needed, was told that Pennsylvania did not have birth certificates that early. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nena Smothers" <smothersnena@hotmail.com> To: <pennsylvania@rootsweb.com> Cc: <paberks@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 3:34 AM Subject: [PA] Pa Grassroots for DC's > > > [i'm] EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD > Join me > > From: kelly52 > > Here is the link to the website about the grassroots effort to have > Pennsylvania make > its older state death certificates much more accessible and also available > online similar to what they have already done in other states: > http://users.rcn.com/timarg/PaHR-Access.htm > > .. We hope you will join in on this effort and if you would pass this > information onto anyone you know who is into Pennsylvania genealogy and > history including out of state residents. Every letter, phone call or > email helps and you can > write more than once. > > This effort will only succeed with your help. > Otherwise we could be stuck with the same old archaic and restricted > system in > Pennsylvania forever. It will not happen by itself. There are millions and > millions of people who are into genealogy but unless we speak up we are > allowing those who don't care about genealogy decide what records we may > or may not have access to. > > By the way there are now twelve states that have scanned images of their > older state death certificates available online (fee free): > > Arizona, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, North > Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. Six other > states have extracted data available online: Alabama, Florida, Idaho, > Louisiana, New Mexico, and Washington. > > Also Arizona, Delaware, Washington and West Virginia have scanned images > of their older state birth records online (also fee free). > > The links to the various states can be found on the Death Certificates for > Other States, Etc section of our website. > > Tim Gruber & Roger Schuler > > > ********* > The official website for the PENNSYLVANIA list is: > http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pa/ > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PENNSYLVANIA > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PENNSYLVANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.725 / Virus Database: 270.14.124/2596 - Release Date: 01/01/10 04:20:00