I will be on the phone today. I would be thrilled if Vital Records would develop an online "death index" as so many other States have done. Thanks for this news. Bev W -----Original Message----- From: Bonnie Malmat <blmalmat@bellsouth.net> To: paallegh <paallegh@rootsweb.com>; PAFRANKL-L <PAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com>; philly-roots <philly-roots@rootsweb.com>; pawashin <pawashin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, Dec 6, 2011 11:51 pm Subject: [Phly-Rts] PA Vital Records SB-361 Bill Progress! Fellow Genealogists, As per "People for Better Pennsylvania Historical Records Access," SB-361 has one last important hurdle to pass before it becomes law, namely the signature of Governor Corbett. Here is what SB-361 would do: "make death certificates over 50 years old and birth certificates over 105 years old open records. It also transfers the certificates once they become open records to the Pennsylvania State Archives." This would make them available to be digitized and put online. Please contact Governor Corbett and express your support for this important bill. It would be awesome to even have an INDEX. We've all had the frustrastion of not being able to access/find records past 1905. http://users.rcn.com/timarg/PaHR-Access-ThisWeeksNews.htm#Nov%2017,%202011 Thanks, Bonnie Malmat Pennyslvania native, now living in Florida. ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message