From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Jun 8 16:22:58 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 k58MMwjb011633; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:22:58 -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 k58MMwq7013865 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:22:58 -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 k58JlKFI009446 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:47:20 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k58JlKQP009445 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:47:20 -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 k58IPuFI009272 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:25:56 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k58L1OW2031868 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:01:24 -0600 X-Envelope-From: Patscga@aol.com Thu Jun 8 15:01:24 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 k58L1Ojb031857 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:01:24 -0600 Received: from imo-m20.mx.aol.com (imo-m20.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.1]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k58L1NW3028568 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:01:23 -0600 Received: from Patscga@aol.com by imo-m20.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id w.361.54ba1cb (29673); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:01:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Patscga@aol.com Message-ID: <361.54ba1cb.31b9ea14@aol.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 17:01:08 EDT Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Re: Death Cert. Questions To: juanita2@cox.net, ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 2350 X-Spam-Flag: NO 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 In a message dated 6/8/2006 4:42:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, juanita2@cox.net writes: I have been told that the counties had to send their death records to Des Moines and the State Vital Statistics has stringent regulations about who can have copies, like proof of relationship (how I can do that, I don't know!). I've been told the record will be made available only to the person's spouse, children, legal parents, grandparents, grandchildren, siblings or legal guardian (I'm a granddaughter of the deceased person's sister). I've seen these regulations before. I've written to many states that have them, stating my relationship and that it's for genealogy purposes. Enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope. I've never been turned down yet. At the risk of annoying some people, I don't think the clerks who receive these requests could care less about who is asking as long as the money is enclosed and the info about the deceased is clear and precise.