Just did a very quick (and very incomplete) search of the Massachusetts Dept of Vital Records website and it looks like you're incorrect.On the form through which you order a record by mail it asks for your name and mailing address but I see no requirement to state your "relationship" to the person whose record you're ordering.
I know that that *used* to be the case a few years back because I did it.I saw the official records of...and got copies of them....people to whom I had *no* legal or familial connection (don't ask why....it's a long story).
If you wish to and are able to...point me to the place where it says only certain "classes" of people can see a person's records.
Thanks!
I know under California law I needed to sign a notarized affidavit to get a copy of mine a few months ago. IIRC, to get a BC I’d need to certify that it was me, a direct blood relative (parent or child), or that I shared a common ancestor with the person in question.
From everything I’ve heard Hawaii shares the same rules. I’m astonished that Massachusetts doesn’t.
It’s moot in any event, the Governor of Hawaii has ordered that they are to do everything in their power to keep a copy of 0bama’s BC out of the hands of the press.