From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Oct 1 04:39:16 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k91AdBYn014077; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 04:39:11 -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 k91Ad9vk010793 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 04:39:09 -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 k917ujFI023644 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 03:56:45 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k917ujXI023643 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 03:56:45 -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 k915vJFI023358 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 01:57:19 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k918dXsH025893 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 02:39:33 -0600 X-Envelope-From: mputman@gohighspeed.com Sun Oct 1 02:39:32 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k918dWYn025882 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 02:39:32 -0600 Received: from mail.my180.net (mail.my180.net [216.229.188.250]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k918dHg6022437 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 02:39:29 -0600 Received: (qmail 20594 invoked by uid 110); 1 Oct 2006 08:41:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO eozfaqvf) (64.35.130.20) by mail.my180.net with SMTP; 1 Oct 2006 08:41:29 -0000 Message-ID: <00c301c6e534$a9162a20$14822340@eozfaqvf> From: "Mary Putman" To: Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 01:36:12 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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] School Records The local school district here does have the records for most of the classes from all schools on computer. I was told, when I asked for my own records a couple of years ago, that those records come under the privacy laws and therefore were not released without a court order or other legal document. This was mainly to protect those people who were adopted, not living with either parent, child abuse, or other extenuating circumstances. I would imagine there could be a lot of information that should not be released. I think a site could be set up for school records like those of the census, only those records of 1930 and before. The school districts usually are fairly short-staffed due to budget constraints, so that must be taken into consideration too. When I checked with a lawyer on this subject, school records on the internet could lead to some very lucrative lawsuits! Mary in Washington