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From: "GARY GREENE" <>
Subject: Re: [OHCUYAHO] Possible increase in fees for Birth & Death Certs.
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 07:52:30 -0400


Thank you for the warning Laura. I was just on the State of Ohio Archives site www.oh.history.org and they also are warning of cuts. If this new budget goes through they will be cutting their reading room hours from 5 to 3 days a week. Also to be cut will be the staff enough that they will no longer be able to answer our requests for information my mail etc. They are warning that the Death Cert. index may be removed from the site altogether because they would be unable to handle the load with the reduced staff. The are requesting that if this is important to us that we write our legislators or the gov. himself. From what I have seen so far with the cuts in education, senior care and all the other cuts proposed, genealogy research will be close to the bottom of importance for our state legislators. For more information on the State Archives and the budget cuts, there is more information listed on their site. Good luck with all of your research. Connie
----- Original Message -----
From: Laura A Hine
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 10:54 PM
To:
Subject: [OHCUYAHO] Possible increase in fees for Birth & Death Certs.

Hi all:

I received this message from a relative who is on the Darke County
Mailing list. Please read this and pass it along to those that you know
who do genealogy research in Ohio. This House Bill pertains to the fees
that are charged by the Ohio Department of Health for Birth and Death
certificates. They want to raise the fees from the current 3 cents each
up to $7.00 each, along with a $5.00 surcharge to be sent to the Ohio
Department of Health. There is also language in the bill that seems to
indicate that they will not be providing parent's names on these
documents either. Also, uncertified copies will no longer be allowed.
Please write to your State representatives and senators about this.
Laura Hine


-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Montrose (by way of Wally <>)
[mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 1:26 PM
To:
Subject: [OHDARKE] Ohio HB 95 web site

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I set up a web site with selected items from HB 95 r.e. Ohio Health Dept
&
Vital Statistics with some *** to draw your attention to a few things I
noted as well as a couple comments by me i.e.
(cm: .....)

http://users.beol.net/genealogy/HB95/

Please take a minute to visit the web page and then write to your local
newspapers, Senators & Reps and the Governor and tell all your friends!
AND attend the hearings!
WE HAVE TO BE HEARD!!!!

We must move quickly or it will be too late!!!!
I will be adding items r.e. the Ohio Historical's Budget delema and HB 95
asap. Stop back to read that too!

Carol


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