{"id":497,"date":"2011-10-21T17:43:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T17:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.passamaquoddy.com\/?page_id=497"},"modified":"2021-01-28T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T14:51:22","slug":"guidelines-for-public-access","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.passamaquoddy.com\/?page_id=497","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines For Public Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Birth Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Legitimate births:<\/strong>\u00a0 Copies (certified or non-certified) of the legal portion of the record must be provided to any member of the public on request.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Out-of-wedlock births:<\/strong>\u00a0 Copies may be provided only to the registrant, parent, or guardian.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Access to file or books of records:<\/strong>\u00a0 If all records of illegitimate births, the original birth records of adopted persons, and the confidential portions of records of legitimate births have been removed or covered from public view, then public access to files or books of birth records must be permitted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Death Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Public Information:<\/strong>\u00a0 Only the decendant&#8217;s name, age, date of death, and place of death may be released to the general public.\u00a0 All other information on the death record is confidential.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cause of death and other confidential information:<\/strong>\u00a0 All information except that specified above is confidential and may be released only to those with direct and legitimate interest in the record.\u00a0 Municipal clerks may release cause of death information only to members of the decendent&#8217;s immediate family or their descendents, the decedent&#8217;s legal custodian or guardian, those needing this information for determination or protection of a personal or property right, or their respective authorized representatives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Authorized representatives:<\/strong>\u00a0 These include: attorneys, physicians, funeral directors, or others such as genealogists authorized in writing by the immediate family or descendants.<\/li>\n<li><strong>All others<\/strong> seeking access to the cause of death data must apply to the Office of Vital Records.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Marriage Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Copies:<\/strong>\u00a0 Copies (certified or non-certified) that exclude any statistical information must be provided to any member of the public on request.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Access to file or books of records:<\/strong>\u00a0 The statistical information section should be masked, deleted, or otherwise removed from public view, if practical.\u00a0 If not, the entire record must be made available for public inspection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Records Prior to 1892<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All such records are public information and may be examined by anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Reference:\u00a0 These guidelines are taken from the rule governing the release of information on vital records.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birth Records Legitimate births:\u00a0 Copies (certified or non-certified) of the legal portion of the record must be provided to any member of the public on request. Out-of-wedlock births:\u00a0 Copies may be provided only to the registrant, parent, or guardian. Access to file or books of records:\u00a0 If all records of illegitimate births, the original birth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.passamaquoddy.com\/?page_id=497\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guidelines For Public Access<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":492,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-497","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.passamaquoddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.passamaquoddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.passamaquoddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.passamaquoddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.passamaquoddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.passamaquoddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/497\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.passamaquoddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.passamaquoddy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}