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Scott MacFarlane@MacFarlaneNews

*turns and looks directly at the camera*

Sorry if I’m late to this... but defense attorneys say accused US Capitol Insurrectionist Federico Klein was a FOIA officer for US State Dept. A FOIA officer!

We have more fun new legal paperwork getting submitted soon!

And a multi-page footnote that's a copy-and-paste of a javascript code block taken from a certain archives website, showing why their refusal to make certain images available by FOIL request or for download is 💩.

Lara Diamond@larasgenealogy

Lara Diamond has been blogging about how she discovered and then reclaimed incredible old records about her great-great-grandmother, a poor peasant who took her fight to the very top of the Russian Empire and their Supreme Court, trying to save her sons:

You know that dream #genealogy doc, which lays out where each family member is, who's mad at whom, who got remarried but is hiding it? I found one from 1850s, as my 5th g g’ma continues her quest to keep her sons out of the army. #ancestry #familyhistory
https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/03/neverless-she-persisted-dont-mess-with.html

When records were in government land
Let our records gooooo

Withheld from view and wrongly banned
Let our records gooooo

Go down, lawyers
Way down in FOIA land
Tell officials
To let our records gooooo

(Happy Passover from your friends at Reclaim The Records.)

(((Jennifer Mendelsohn)))@CleverTitleTK·

I'm late on this but whooaaaa. "Did you ever wonder what would happen if you caught a major American city's Department of Health in an "astroturf" campaign where they created fake support for a government policy that actually came entirely from city officials?" Go get 'em! https://twitter.com/ReclaimTheRecs/status/1373516380792877056

UPDATE on the legal fight for ~1.6 million digitized NYC death certificates from 1949-1968 - https://mailchi.mp/reclaimtherecords/our-legal-fight-to-open-1-point-6-million-nyc-death-certificates-moves-forward

Amateur Family History Podcast @AFHpodcast·

Just realised... they never asked for a more precise place of birth than ‘England’. Genealogists of the future, beware!

Megan Smolenyak🕵️‍♀️@megansmolenyak·

Progress! #genealogy https://twitter.com/ReclaimTheRecs/status/1373516380792877056

Frank Boyett @BoyettFrank·

These folks give me hope in an era where we’re seeing a consistent rollback of #Sunshine laws across the country. Godspeed. https://twitter.com/ReclaimTheRecs/status/1373516380792877056

Jill Hurley @genealogy_jill·

Here’s what caught my eye: “Did you ever wonder what would happen if you caught a major American city's Department of Health in an "astroturf" campaign where they created fake support for a government policy that actually came entirely from city officials?” 😳 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #genealogy https://twitter.com/ReclaimTheRecs/status/1373516380792877056

Fairfax Genealogical @FxGenSoc·

An important update from @ReclaimTheRecs about their lawsuit opening up New York City vital records. There’s a lot to be optimistic about for access to these records in the next years, but still some work to be done. https://twitter.com/ReclaimTheRecs/status/1373516380792877056