H.R. 10
Records Access issue for the Genealogical Community
This bill can potentially interfere
with access to family history records. While we are all concerned about
terrorism, we recognize that laws written in haste have the potential
to be misintrepreted and to seriously impact access to records that are
essential for family history. Records beyond a certain age are not
useful to terrorists and others involved in identify theft and the
language of this bill needs to be improved to prevent an over-reaction
by some record keeping agencies .
Please contact your representative regarding
this bill. PLEASE read David
Rencher's letter below
before sending your letter. But
if we do not act, we cannot complain if nothing is done. This bill has
NOT yet been passed and NOW is the time to ACT.
Sample Letter to send out (use this as a
guide for your letter to your own representative)
from David E. Rencher, Chair,
Record Preservation and Access Committee--Federation of Genealogical
Societies
H.R. 10 Bill Summary and Status
from the 108th Congress
website
Contact
your representative
Article from the Ancestry Daily News
Remember: Be
Polite, Be Respectful and to the Point. Succinct and to-the-point letters are
taken more seriously than rambling diatribes.
Last update: 6 October 2004--5:56 p.m. central time.
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