A pair of lost travelers were rescued with a little help from a cell phone finder. Susan and Jeff were driving through the mountains of Utah when they got lost on some back mountain roads on the way to a family friend’s house. Jeff kept driving but the roads continued to get worse as they drove on. And then a snow storm threatened to send them off the road.
When Karrie R. got lost in the wide expanse rural Kansas, she assumed her 3G phone would work. But when she came to a closed gas station and tried to find a map or call for help, there wasn’t even a hint of service.
The perfect ribs were sitting on the kitchen counter, but the grill master was missing the perfect sauce. It was written on a yellowed piece of notebook paper he’d had in his recipe drawer for 10 years.
Everybody gets them, those unknown numbers that can come at all hours of the day and night — but who is at the other end of the line? You could pick up the phone, but if the call comes in the middle of the night or during dinner, even that can be a hassle. Then you’re stuck on the phone with whomever is at the other end of the line is someone you probably don’t want to talk to.
Criminal background checks are common practice for most jobs these days, but they can also be a great way for the average Joe or Jane to find out a lot of information about someone. More and more people are using criminal background checks to check up on people they know. There are a slew of reasons to do criminal background checks on people. Everyone gets a bad feeling about someone once in a while, but only recently have people been able to do something about those feelings and find out someone’s background.
When cellular phones first came along, the only way to get a cellular phone number was to ask the person. Adding to the hassle, there was no phone book for cellular phone numbers. So if that number ever went missing, it was gone, plain and simple.
Kansas houses most of its birth records at its Department of Health and Environment’s Office of Vital Statistics. The office also contains other public data like death and marriage records.
The state of Idaho started managing birth and death records in the year 1907. There was little or no formal system of birth registration prior to that year, with clergymen and health care workers being the point persons responsible for managing the files.
The state of Oregon began its nationwide birth recording in the year 1903. While the Oregon State Archives located in Salem provides important records of the fifteen out of thirty-six counties, the rest of the state’s records can be provided by the Vital Records Bureau.
The statewide registration of births in Pennsylvania happened in January 1906. However, the repositories of the said documents are not located in one place only.