Fwd: Genealogists Declaration of Rights Needs Signatures

[Joanne Saltman]

I have signed and hope you will all consider doing so also. Save the
date: details to follow for our fall meeting of the WMJGS on October
19th at 2:00pm.
Joanne


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From: Carole <carm...@cox.net>
Date: Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 2:14 PM
Subject: Genealogists Declaration of Rights Needs Signatures
To: Carole <carm...@cox.net>


In this age of secrecy, there are legislative efforts to deny access
to federal, state and local public records because of fears of
identity theft and fraud. The Records Preservation & Access Committee
of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
(IAJGS) urges genealogists to sign a “Genealogists’ Declaration of
Rights,” which advocates open access to records of birth, death,
marriage, divorces, probate and other public records. The
Declaration, available at http://bit.ly/gen-declaration has been
approved by National Genealogical Society (NGS), the Federation of
Genealogical Societies (FGS) and the IAJGS. The Declaration was
presented at the 34th IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Salt
lake City. A large number of signers will help make legislators aware
of the significant size of the genealogy audience in the United States
and that their needs should be considered.



I would encourage all of you in the genealogy community to please sign
the Declaration.



Thank you.



Carole Montello




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Joanne