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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
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San Jose Mercury News
McAfee loses personal data of thousands McAfee, the Santa Clara 
security software company, has lost the personal information of 
thousands of its employees due to a lapse by an external auditor.
The full article will be available on the Web for a limited time:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/13950371.htm


Contra Costa Times, Sun, 26 Feb 2006 3:30 AM PST
NILDA REGO: DAYS GONE BY: Grocer's daughter takes a stand for her fair 
cut
<<http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/living/13966882.htm?source=
rs
s&channel=cctimes_living>>
Second in a series: Elsie Foglia Mastick can be found many afternoons
at the Moraga History Center. The archivist-librarian is one of the most
active volunteers at the center. But her first job had nothing to do 
with
books or documents. Fifty years ago, she was a butcher learning the 
trade from
her father, August Foglia.

ARTIFACTS of Texas history going once ...
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... Past auctions of Texas archives have raised concern that lots 
rightfully
belonged ... State archivist Chris LaPlante said he is confident about
the provenance of ...
<http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA022606.01B.texana_auc
tion.35dbd99.html>

LOSS of Blackshear records sore subject to graduates
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA
... ECSID textbooks and records Manager Dana Wiest still has four file
cabinets full of Blackshear records, but she said an unknown number of
transcripts and other ...
<http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16201404&BRD=2288&PAG=46
1&dept_id=475626&rfi=6>

HANDWRITTEN receipt traces John Brown's trail to the east
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA
... The historical society announced the Lindsleys' gift last week. "The
family did a really nice thing," said Matt Veatch, state archivist. ...
<http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/feb/26/handwritten_receipt_traces_john
_browns_trail_east/?city_local>


FOREVER IN DEED
Chicago Tribune - United States
... a typed two-page letter, walked into the McHenry County recorder of
deeds office and ... Sprinkled among the millions of documents are bits
of love, fear, apology ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0602260406feb26,1,282
769.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed>

THOSE charged with public access will often hinder it
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
... Oakland isn't alone in the way it ignores what the law requires. 
Times
higher education reporter Matt Krupnick filed a public records request
on Jan. ...
<http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/opinion/13966715.htm>

"QUADROON Ball" myths are debunked by Historian
Louisiana Weekly - New Orleans,LA,USA
... the history of the neighborhood. For many years, Osborne had been an
archivist with the New Orleans Public Library. At one time he ...
< http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20060227q>

USING high-tech tools
Southeast Missourian - Cape Girardeau,MO,USA
... to hire a group to come in and purge our files and line our 
documents
up." Burger said the current statute does not accept electronic versions
of records as a ...
<http://www.semissourian.com/story/1141558.html>

IN Mich., even dead vote
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... News review of voter and registration files, criminal and ... of 
vote
fraud because the records cannot be ... city's absentee ballots and 
other
documents, Winfrey said ...
<http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060226/METRO/6022603
01/1003>

PAPERS shed light on Murrow war broadcasts
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
... tossed into a box of other old files,'' according to ... CBS News,
said the network has no original documents - as opposed to audio records
- from Murrow's ...
<http://sltrib.com/arts/ci_3547312>


CIVIL War is recorded for all time in photos Captured Images
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
... images of famous leaders, ordinary soldiers and the terrible 
destruction
of war ... as a copier to distribute maps and orders, create visual 
records
of military ...
<http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FW
SJ_RelishArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137834360404>

SOLUTIONS sought to protect hidden data
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... Originally, Vista was going to let users drag and drop files into 
certain
spots on the desktop in order to label documents with personalized 
categories.
<http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/business/13964532.htm>

ERNST & Young loses four more laptops
Register - London,England,UK
... reported here. The laptop with McNealy's data was stolen from an 
employee's
car, according to Ernst and Young. It's unclear what ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/26/ey_laptops/>



Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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