about the vital statistics job...
as a genealogy researcher, it is
becoming increasingly difficult to
access this data. I have been able,
with the help of vital statistics
bureaus, to find lost family members,
re-connect adoptees with their birth
families, and piece together patch-
work quilts of family stories. It
is interesting to be able to do so.
On the other hand, there is legislation
which now makes it nearly impossible to
locate some of this info, and some families
are no longer able to find their loved ones,
trace their ancestry etc. This is due to
Identity theft and so some of this data
is no longer avaialbel to the public.