Craig on October 31st, 2009

With the crisis of my father’s recent illness and the minor drama of my own, I feel like I’ve been way out of touch the last two weeks.  It’s time get back into the flow of things.   I thought  little census whacking for Halloween would ease my way back into writing.  So I went [...]

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Craig on March 26th, 2008

One of Several Posts about Open Government Laws and Genealogy
Previously, we spotlighted several states that are particularly “genealogy-friendly” concerning access to state vital records. Now we wade into the swamp of vital records-access horribles.
At the edge of the swamp are states that have unreasonably long (100 years or more for birth records; more than [...]

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