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Indiana Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 10507
Ft. Wayne, IN 46852-0507
Indiana Historical Society
450 W. Ohio St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
Indiana Religious History
Association
P.O. Box 88267
Indianapolis, IN 46208
Historic Landmark Foundation of IN
Information Center Library
340 W. Michigan St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3204
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Indiana Historical Bureau
140 N. S]enate, Room 408
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Society of Indiana Pioneers
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Indiana German Heritage Society
401 E. Michigan St.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Indians of Indiana
P.O. Box 9563
Fort Wayne, IN 46899-9563
Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
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Indiana State Archives
140 North Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
Genealogy Columnists:
Mrs. Elsie Kilmer
Antique Week
P.O. Box 90
Knightstown, IN 46148
The Electric Consumer
Who's Who
P.O. Box 24517
Indianapolis, IN 46224
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You may be
surprised at what you find hanging around in your family tree!!
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IG Editor's Branch
Vital Records- Closed to Whom?
Some Indiana Legislators, fearing theft of our identities, want to end access to Hoosier Vital Records unless we can prove we are reporters or genealogists.
Yet reports ay identity theft most often occurs from stolen documents and raids on personal trash-not from access to vital records.
Most of us already have been blocked at some time form legitimate access to our information, and we have received needed information on the QT. Access--legitimate or otherwise-can be gained by friendship, deception, or bribery.
Criminals can get vital data from a variety of sources- government licensing, databases, newspapers, and organization records. None of us will truly be safer by closing access to vitals. And if vitals go, which records will be closed next?
As Tom Stockham, CEO of Myfamily.com, told NPR in a story on records access after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, "Millions of people use this information for the best possible purposes to discover where they came from and what are their roots and to connect with family. And if we take this information away, unfortunately, the people who would use it for bad purposes will find it in other ways."
The only test I've heard suggested to tell genealogists from scammers is the ease with which genealogist can be provoked into telling their family histories. Clever criminals can easily develop such stories, probably telling them better. Besides, real genealogists don't always tell such stories! Rather than closing records, we need to develop less simplistic identification test and seriously prosecute use of personal information for criminal purposes.
As the closure bill comes up again next session, tell your legislator that a little secrecy doesn't work. A record either is open or not!
--CHAR
Indiana Genealogist- Vol. 14 Issue 4
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