We've been wrestling with ways to get really important historical and genealogical records out of *states* whose state-level FOI laws often (alas) explicitly exclude the judiciary and their wonderful records (many of which ought to be in archives).
https://x.com/FreeLawProject/status/1815798812742385775
Big news! Rep. Schiff just introduced a bill to bring FOIA to the federal judiciary. The bill will bring commonsense transparency rules to the judiciary so that journalists and members of the public can hold it accountable and understand how it works. 1/2
PACER is still online because hasn’t been updated in twenty years. Well played, courts, well played.
Afternoon, #AncestryHour! Huge discovery this week in a birth record. My gg-grandfather Henry Hansen added some extra info, and now I finally know his birth date! #DanishGenealogy
No coincidence FOIA was signed on July 4. Grievance against King George: He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
@ReclaimTheRecs @Ancestry I never knew of the dire state of their balance sheet. And boy, a lot more about the @Ancestry business - esp their poor reliability & uptime - makes sense now.
We realized we just missed the six month anniversary of literally billions of dollars of @Ancestry's debt, and its holding company, being downgraded to NEGATIVE by Moody's.
So weird how no one in the genealogy or archives world wants to talk about that?
https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-assigns-B1-to-Ancestrys-proposed-term-loan-B-affirms-Rating-Action--PR_483228
@AsFarce Frankly I think people are making too much of this. I for one look forward to seeing birth certificates sponsored by Huggy, marriage certificates with Shine Lawyers embossing and a free happy meal with every McDonalds death certificate.
i’m actually not surprised that privatising BDM is on the table because this has been happening in increments for ages. already, to access digitised @PRO_Vic archives online you need an Ancestry dot com login. if this bothers you, follow @ReclaimTheRecs
amazing. we’ve learned nothing from the past 40 years. i can’t wait for our children to disappear from official records entirely
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