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From: "Jigsaw Genealogy" <>
Subject: Letter from Congresswoman re: 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:01:57 -0500
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Assuming that others on this list wrote to their Congressmen/Congresswomen
re: the 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act (which was designed to deny
public acccess to birth certificates and records), I'm curious to see if
anyone else has received a reply?

Congresswoman Jo Ann Davis (1st District, VA) replied to me:

"I certainly understand your desire for public access to non-certified
copies of birth certificates and records, particularly as a method of
collecting family histories. You will be please to learn that language was
included in the final version of the 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act
protecting differences between the states in the manner and form in which
birth records are stored and birth certificates are produced from those
records. As you may know, this legislation passed the House and Senate in
early December, 2004, and was subsequently signed into law by the
President."

I'd heard that the Act has passed through Congress and was signed into law,
but what's all that gobble-de-gook about --

"... protecting differences between the states in the manner and form in
which birth records are stored and birth certificates are produced from
those records." ???

Can anyone out there translate her political rhetoric into simple English?
What really happened?

Best regards,
Mary Beth Dalton
Jigsaw Genealogy
P.O. 5595
Williamsburg VA 23188-5209



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