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From: Faye L. Dyess 
To: [email protected] 
Date: Friday, August 20, 1999 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: Rights


On the question of birth and death notices.  Most people forget these
>notices are not just for the benefit of the genealogist or to impose on
>anyone's privacy.  These have always been done for legal purposes.  A death
>notice in the paper (all papers in the area) allows creditors of the
>deceased a chance to submit a claim to the estate of the deceased.
Likewise
>a birth announcement (it hasn't been long that we had birth certificates)
>shows that there is another legal claim to the estates of the parents.
>
>Not only does the individual have rights, so do creditors and everyone else
>that you might conduct business with. And always, the rights of many come
>before the rights of one.
>
>Faye
>
>

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