----- Forwarded Message ----- From: [email protected] Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 20:35:36 EST Subject: More of our files are in Danger Message-ID: <[email protected]> On the 31st, I received word that Jeb Bush of Florida is trying to close the State library and Archives. Yesterday Indiana is trying to stop us from using the Marriage, Birth and Death files, and now Virginia below. All of these notices have come from the State Societies for each State, since I am also regiested and active in theState of Ca. Genealogical Society that all Societies belong to. Betty Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lists2.rootsweb.com id h14LeS7o018534 I am certain I am not the only person whose early ancestors lived in VA and I thought perhaps, someone might want to know of this legislation. VIRGINIA SENATE BILL 818=E2=80=94-DESTRUCTION OF WILL FILES. January 31, 2003 Virginia Senate Bill 818 Destruction of will files. Allows the clerk to destroy a will's file along=20 with the original will after it is no longer of any value and after it has=20 been microfilmed. Has been reported out of committee. Senator Thomas K. Norment, Jr. of Williamsburg is the only patron. Barbara Vines Little, CG Dominion Research Service PO Box 1273, Orange, VA 22960 [email protected] Previously published in MISSING LINKS, Vol. 8, No. 5, 3 February 2003 http://www.petuniapress.com Obviously someone doesn't realize the importance of these old documents or=20 the history they represent. Judy Neu Springwater, NY