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From: "Elissa Scalise Powell, CG" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Legal Issue
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:01:59 -0400
References: <20070915064648.5FA194E@resin16.mta.everyone.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070915064648.5FA194E@resin16.mta.everyone.net>


My belief (and I am sure that others may correct this if wrong) is that
Funeral Home records are private under the fact that they are business
records. I would think it would take a court order to force a business owner
of any type of business to open his records to someone when he doesn't want
to. Or have I been watching too much CSI?

Of course it might be in the funeral home's best interest to service family
members and establish a good relationship. It is not an *if* you will need
their services but a *when*. <G>

-- Elissa

Elissa Scalise Powell, CG
www.PowellGenealogy.com
CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for
Certification of Genealogists used under license after periodic evaluations
by the Board. http://www.BCGcertification.org/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:] On Behalf
> Of Charles S. Mason, Jr.
<snipped>
> Someone asked about being able to look at
> the actual records and the funeral director said they could not do that
> becasue of privacy issues. Someone else asked what information might be
> in the records that they could not release. He replied social security
> numbers. He was unaware that when a person dies their ss# is posted in
> the SS Death Index available at several places on the web. That ended his
> belief that the records would be covered under privacy laws.


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