Thought this might be of interest to anyone doing research in Ohio: >OHIO HR BILL 519 > > Hello list members searching Ohio records for marriage information: > This comes from the April 2000 Mahoning County Chapter of the OGS > newsletter: "Introduced into the Ohio House of Rep. is a bill to amend the > Ohio Revised code that should have genealogists up in arms. 'It states, in > part, that upon receiving a request for records pertaining to the issuance of > marriage licenses, a probate court shall furnish copies of the records as > provided under section 149.43 of the Ohio Revised code, except that the court > shall delete or otherwise remove any social security numbers and the maiden > names of the mothers of the parties to a marriage so that they are not > available to the person requesting the records, except for use by the > department of human services, law enforcement personnel, and if ordered by > the court in a civil or criminal trial.' >If any individual genealogist feels that this would impact their >ability to do genealogical research, a letter voicing your concern >would be in order here. The address is: The Honorable____, Ohio >Representatives, 77 South High St., Columbus, Ohio 43266-0603. Or >www.house.state.oh.us/voice/index. html. Representative Ron >Hood from Canfield is a co-sponsor of this bill." Betty Naff Mitchell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rootsweb Contributor Visit "Naff and Related Families" http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mitchell001/ Visit "Our Family" Newsletter Dedicated to MITCHELL Surnames Worldwide http://hometown.aol.com/bjm737/