GenealogyBlog.com has published a commentary about an article in The Daily Sentinel about Colorado closing off access to various public records.
They posted this:
folks, I hate to say this, but I don’t hear much of an outcry from the genealogical community about the loss of so many records that are key to our research. The baby [...]

Things are getting more and more ridiculous. Dirk Lammers has written an article for the Associated Press, published in the Aberdeen News, Law changes leave vital records indexes out of sunshine, about some of the restrictions placed on South Dakotans who are interested in genealogy. All in the name of security. I can understand not obtaining recent records, but some restrictions that other states (not necessarily SD) are passing are getting really silly (or scary, however you want to look at it). David Bordewyk, general manager of the South Dakota Newspaper Association, points out just how ridiculous this is - South Dakota is doing this, basically in advance of what may or may not happen at the federal level (and don’t get me started on the federal government telling the states how to maintain their records).

Terry J. Allen has an article about a topic that many genealogists should be aware of, called Information is power. It’s pretty frightening, and unfortunately if everything goes through as planned, getting any of it reversed is going to almost be impossible. States are fighting it, althought not out of any love for genealogists, but rather out of costs and whether or not it’s a federal or state issue.

Louise Gray has an article, Priceless pieces of history left to gather dust, in The Scotsman, about very valuable items that are just gathering dust in underground storerooms and warehouses, and they are in danger of being lost. There is a lot of valuable information that genealogists researching Scottish heritage would be very interested in.

Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter has word that there is a bill being sponsored in the Tennessee state legislature that would “require property owners to grant access to graveyards on their property to visitors. The visitors are defined as “family members, descendants and close friends of the deceased persons buried there.” Visits would be legal for the purposes of visits the graves, cemetery maintenance, genealogical research, and for possible future burials.”

Kimberly Blair has written a touching story in the Pensacola News Journal (FL), about an 83 year old woman who was taken/illegally bought when she was a baby, and never knew her blood relatives until her daughter tracked them down 83 years later using a lot of patience and the internet.

Yesterday I mentioned an article about some old records found in a high school and donated to a local history organization. In an ironic twist, the Reporter-Times (Martinsville, Indiana) has an article by Amy Hillenburg that is the exact opposite: County record disposal concerns historian. This is one of those areas where even though genealogists and historians (and archivists if we want to get technical) have all of these modern tools for preserving important documents, those documents can still be easily lost forever.

Connie Lenzen writes in The Columbian about an area of genealogy research that can be difficult - the family history of those who are adopted. Genealogy research concerning adoptions can be difficult because, as Connie points out, records were sometimes modified to protect those involved.