From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jul 23 13:34:21 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6NJYLjb022448; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:34:21 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6NJYJp2027174 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:34:19 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k6NGu1FI011413 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:56:01 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6NGu1Yi011412 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:56:01 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k6NFhLFI011228 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:43:22 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6NILScw017773 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:21:28 -0600 X-Envelope-From: 4uswqp602@sneakemail.com Sun Jul 23 12:21:28 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6NILSjb017764 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:21:28 -0600 Received: from monkey.sneakemail.com (sneakemail.com [38.113.6.61]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k6NILMbV008083 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:21:25 -0600 Received: (qmail 377 invoked by uid 501); 23 Jul 2006 18:21:19 -0000 Received: (sneakemail censored 27326-73916 #1); 23 Jul 2006 18:21:19 -0000 Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:21:17 -0700 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com From: "Bob" <4uswqp602@sneakemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200607231631.k6NGVbuv012265@lists5.rootsweb.com> References: <200607231631.k6NGVbuv012265@lists5.rootsweb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <27326-73916@sneakemail.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: CAn SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN ** Reply to message from "Yourprayingaunt@wmconnect.com" on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:31:37 -0600 > Being all new to genealogy search I noticed that when I do Rootsweb/Calif. > Death Records for family members that I know death dates on and all the > information on most and it will come up no match. This is true on the LDS site and I > am having to stay with the free ones and get no place. Do we know why you just > cannot go to a state and get this info sense its public record? Or maybe I am > wrong on this being public record. While a record may be public you may not always be able to see it and they are not free. In Oregon vital records are not open to the public, just immediate family, for 100 years for births and 50 years for deaths. Some jurisdictions put some old records on the internet for free but they seem to be the exception. Some such as the California death records have been made available but are not complete for various reasons and they will not go back and try to get all the records because of the cost. In any case these online records are just pointers to the record and not the record themselves. When doing genealogy you need to get the original record, for documentation, which is going to cost money in almost all cases. -- Robert Blair