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From: Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer <>
Subject: [APG] Ohio health records back in Norwalk Library
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:21:32 -0500


The following came to me today via the Archives e-mail list. Use the URL
at the end to go to the full article.

The Morning Journal
Stats back in library's stacks
By HEATHER FOWLER , Norwalk Bureau Chief 11/01/2003
NORWALK -- Don't be surprised to see local historian Henry Timman
''physically embracing'' microfilmed copies of vital statistic records
that
were returned early yesterday to the Norwalk Public Library after
being
confiscated by the Huron County General Health District.
''We ordered (the health district) to return the records to the
library,'' said Prosecutor
Russell Leffler, whose office was asked to issue a legal opinion when
the health
department removed the estimated 20 microfilm rolls from the library on
June 30.
The records contain birth and death statistics and became a bone of
contention between
the Huron County Genealogical Society, which paid for copying the
records, and the
health district.
http://www.morningjournal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10445526&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=46371&rfi=8


Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer



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