The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. Warning: This article contains personal opinions. I was surprised and a bit dismayed this week when I read about the discovery of a lot of old records at a county courthouse. Local archivists spent thousands of hours sorting, filing, and organizing the …
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(+) Microfilm or Digital?
The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. Warning: This article contains personal opinions. I was surprised and a bit dismayed this week when I read about the discovery of a lot of old records at a county courthouse. Local archivists spent thousands of hours sorting, filing, and organizing the …
Incomplete Birth Certificates Create a Bureaucratic Morass in Many Places
I had to smile a bit today when reading an article in the Boston Globe about the “problem” of incomplete birth certificates. It seems the city of Boston has many birth records from years ago where the baby’s name is simply recorded as “baby girl” or “baby boy.” The reporter wrote, “A generation ago — …