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From: Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer <>
Subject: public records indexes online
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:52:45 -0500


I have recently found out about an Internet site which links to (some)
public records indexes which are available free online:

http://www.brbpub.com/pubrecsites.htm

Not all of these are ones we would be interested in (e.g, corporation and
trademark listings--and *someone* will even be interested in those!), but a
few sites are indexes of marriage, birth, divorce, etc. records for a state
or county. I believe all of these are mounted by the agency responsible for
the records; the one I looked at for Berks County, PA was mounted by the
Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphans Court for the county. I did a search
for "John Smith" in the death index at this site, and found that it brought
up the year of death, and citation for the actual record. I assume that the
sites vary as to their coverage and the amount of information you actually get.

I was alerted to this by a message listing new sites which someone forwarded
to me, and it appears that they are attempting to add to the list.

I hope someone finds their county/state of interest here!

Christine
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Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
Manager, Archival and Bibliographic Services /\___/\
(Regional Archivist) | . . |
Southeastern NY Library Resources Council (__>^<__)
PO Box 879, 220 Route 299 ( ) /~
Highland, NY 12528 ( ) /
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If one were to cross man with the cat, it would vastly benefit man, but
deteriorate the cat. --Mark Twain
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