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Registry Helps Track Down Next of Kin
MSNBC 2005
The article profiled Mark Cerney's National Next of Kin Registry and explored the larger problem of locating family members when someone is missing, injured or unable to communicate.
Why we're preserving it:
This article captures the Next of Kin effort while the Illinois legislation was still moving through the legislature before anyone knew whether the family's campaign would succeed.
This article captures the Next of Kin effort while the Illinois legislation was still moving through the legislature before anyone knew whether the family's campaign would succeed.
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