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From: David Strickland
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 12:24 PM
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Subject: Texas birth records 1926-1949 on Rootsweb
I ran into an instance where the father was identified as ***DO NOT
ISSUE***. I then checked for that name for the father and found 21,585
such records. I could not believe that there were that many "protected"
unwed fathers, so I contacted the Texas State Dept of Health for an
explanation.
It seems that when a person dies and the Department can identify his birth
certificate, they change the father's name to ***DO NOT ISSUE*** as an
internal code to not issue a certified copy of that birth certificate to
anyone claiming to be the deceased person! Obviously they are not
catching very many death/birth relationships as I only found 1 out of the
100 or so deceased people I have checked.
Anyway, thought all the listers might "enjoy" another instance of the
bureaucratic mentality of dealing with a legitimate issue.
David Strickland
dstrickland(a)optekinc.com