Index to Deaths in Albany, New York, 1880-1915
As a follow-up to our successful FOIL request to get the New York State death index 1880-1956, we turned our attention to the handful of missing years and localities in that index. One of those [...]
As a follow-up to our successful FOIL request to get the New York State death index 1880-1956, we turned our attention to the handful of missing years and localities in that index. One of those [...]
*pounds table* ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
https://twitter.com/LizerReal/status/1771978148399198527
🚨 LEGISLATION ALERT: NEW JERSEY ABOUT TO GUT RECORDS ACCESS FOR GENEALOGISTS? 🚨
(and journalists and historians too, but let's just focus on the genealogists here for a minute)
Read all about it in our latest newsletter!
https://mailchi.mp/reclaimtherecords/new-jersey-about-to-gut-records-access-for-genealogists
The @SixthFlrMuseum should not be able to decide who gets a copy of the #ZapruderFilm in the @USNatArchives. The public should have unrestricted access to public records. Thanks for your interest in this case! #FOIA #jfk #zapruder
NEW: Just in time for #SunshineWeek! I'm launching a weekly #FOIA newsletter for @business called FOIA Files where I will challenge govt secrecy & unshroud the documents recalcitrant agencies preferred never saw the light of day.
Sign up here: https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/foia-files
We filed papers today in one of our several ongoing #FOIA cases.
We argued that an agency which admits it has a database is certainly capable of producing that database, or at least a subset of its fields -- in opposition to an agency which claims this is just impossible. 😐
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@ReclaimTheRecs @USNatArchives Thanks a lot for checking out this case! Your analysis is spot on -- the way the Zapruder film has been (mis)handled belies the purpose of the public records statutes. Now the "copyright" is being abused to suppress public access!
Hello, #RootsTech2024! Come visit our booth in the Expo Hall, so we can commiserate over tough records access issues, plan new lawsuits to get them, pick out an RTR t-shirt, and get free stickers and badge ribbons and candy!
(Here, board member Alec models a @Muckrock shirt.)
Reclaim The Records is at the annual day-before-#RootsTech Archives and Records Custodians (ARC) symposium. We’ve got a front row seat to hear from archivists from Austria, Mexico, Colombia, and the Philippines — and FamilySearch, of course.
Every citizen should have the basic right to obtain their own identity documents. No matter the circumstances of their birth. Our birth records belong to us, not the state.
@adopteelaw It's a nationwide race to see which state can be the best at changing their attitudes, giving people the right to their own records (and identities), and letting the sunshine in! 🥰
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