Good idea, Susan! Mary Love ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Hawkins" <hawkins@texoma.net> To: <TXARCHIVE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 7:30 AM Subject: Re: [TXARCHIVE] Delayed Birth Certificates > Perhaps we could have a set of Birth/death/marriage amendments and > addition's volunteer, who could keep running alphabetical list of these. > That way search engines could hit it, and also all the co.cc's and the > pages could have a link to it,Then if you get an email demanding a > change you just send them to the page in Rootsweb for submitting the > additional info.We wouldn't have all those tiny ftp files and dozens of > extra links to them throughout the system. > This Rootsweb archive page of these could have a header as to why we > cannot touch the state originals. > susan > > David W. Morgan wrote: > > > > On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Lawrence E. Oliver wrote: > > > > > David - > > > > > > The Birth lists for Texas, that we are transcribing, do not include 'delayed > > > birth certificates'. At least I think that that is correct. > > > > > > I have received a request from an individual to add his name to his county of > > > birth. He provided me with complete information - this included the > > > certificate number and date that it was approved by a court. My questions are: > > > > > > (1) How do we handle this? > > > > > > (2) It's not a big problem to add this, but, does anyone know if Texas will be > > > releasing the delayed birth certificates in a future list? > > > > > > Lawrence E. Oliver - loliver@tyler.net > > > > > > > You can add it as a separate file, not to the main file. > > > > I don't know the answer on delayed birth records. My father's amended > > birth record shows his adopted surname of Morgan. That is the one you > > get if you write to Austin. The record in Randall County shows his > > surname as Markham. He was born in 1922, so his is not in the batch > > the state put online. > > > > I upset somebody yesterday because I refused to correct his birth record > > as recorded by the state. His last name is Graves and the state had it as > > Groves. > > > > David > > > > dmorgan@efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/okfiles.htm > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm > > > > ==== TXARCHIVE Mailing List ==== > > Go Upload Files! > > > ==== TXARCHIVE Mailing List ==== > Number One as of Sept 1, 2000 > 408 MB as of Oct 20, 2000, 500 MB as of Jan 17, 2001, > 601 MB as of Feb 28, 2001, 713 MB as of May 21, 2001. > >

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Mary Love Berryman wrote: > Good idea, Susan! > > Mary Love Susan volunteered to do this, right? And Mary Love volunteered to help her? LOL David > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Susan Hawkins" <hawkins@texoma.net> > To: <TXARCHIVE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 7:30 AM > Subject: Re: [TXARCHIVE] Delayed Birth Certificates > > > > Perhaps we could have a set of Birth/death/marriage amendments and > > addition's volunteer, who could keep running alphabetical list of these. > > That way search engines could hit it, and also all the co.cc's and the > > pages could have a link to it,Then if you get an email demanding a > > change you just send them to the page in Rootsweb for submitting the > > additional info.We wouldn't have all those tiny ftp files and dozens of > > extra links to them throughout the system. > > This Rootsweb archive page of these could have a header as to why we > > cannot touch the state originals. > > susan > > > > David W. Morgan wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Lawrence E. Oliver wrote: > > > > > > > David - > > > > > > > > The Birth lists for Texas, that we are transcribing, do not include > 'delayed > > > > birth certificates'. At least I think that that is correct. > > > > > > > > I have received a request from an individual to add his name to his > county of > > > > birth. He provided me with complete information - this included the > > > > certificate number and date that it was approved by a court. My > questions are: > > > > > > > > (1) How do we handle this? > > > > > > > > (2) It's not a big problem to add this, but, does anyone know if Texas > will be > > > > releasing the delayed birth certificates in a future list? > > > > > > > > Lawrence E. Oliver - loliver@tyler.net > > > > > > > > > > You can add it as a separate file, not to the main file. > > > > > > I don't know the answer on delayed birth records. My father's amended > > > birth record shows his adopted surname of Morgan. That is the one you > > > get if you write to Austin. The record in Randall County shows his > > > surname as Markham. He was born in 1922, so his is not in the batch > > > the state put online. > > > > > > I upset somebody yesterday because I refused to correct his birth record > > > as recorded by the state. His last name is Graves and the state had it > as > > > Groves. > > > > > > David > > > > > > dmorgan@efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/okfiles.htm > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm > > > > > > ==== TXARCHIVE Mailing List ==== > > > Go Upload Files! > > > > > > ==== TXARCHIVE Mailing List ==== > > Number One as of Sept 1, 2000 > > 408 MB as of Oct 20, 2000, 500 MB as of Jan 17, 2001, > > 601 MB as of Feb 28, 2001, 713 MB as of May 21, 2001. > > > > > > > ==== TXARCHIVE Mailing List ==== > Go Upload Files! > dmorgan@efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/okfiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm