Hello,

I requested a Baptismal record from St. Patrick's in Nashua, New Hampshire, they sent this letter instead.

"In recent years, several parishes in Nashua have been consolidated, and further consolidation is expected within a decade. One of the consequences of the consolidation has been an increase in the amount of data each parish is expected to record and preserve. The workload on our secretarial staff has increased accordingly. For this reason, we are no longer able to provide genealogical data concerning sacraments admistered at the old Immaculate Conception Church, Saint Patrick Church, and Saint Casimir Church.[all in Nashua] We are also no longer able to provide genealogical data for burials in Saint Patrick Cemetery and Holy Cross Cemetery. The retrieval and transmission of such information is quite time-consuming and interferes with our staff's efforts to keep up the daily operation of the parish. Births, deaths, and marriages are matters of public record obtainable from civil authorities who are staffed for such requests. Very often, families themslves are a valuable source for providing such information."

Has anyone else experienced this? Barbara