Index to New York City Marriage Licenses, 1996-2017
In 2016, Reclaim The Records filed a successful FOIL request that obtained the first-ever public copy of the New York City marriage license index for 1930-1995. [...]
In 2016, Reclaim The Records filed a successful FOIL request that obtained the first-ever public copy of the New York City marriage license index for 1930-1995. [...]
In September 2017, Reclaim The Records made a new FOIL request of the New York State Department of Health (NYS DOH), asking for the first-ever public copy of the basic index to all births in New [...]
We won our Freedom of Information request for the New York State marriage index for 1881-1965! But then the New York State Department of Health refused to hand over the post-1965 marriage [...]
This list of names is exactly what it sounds like, a list of everyone in New York City who was legally registered to vote in the 1924 election. It was originally compiled by the New York City [...]
All New York City birth certificates that are more than 100 years old are supposed to be open to the public. Yet the New York City Department of Health has inexplicably failed to transfer these [...]
On January 3, 2016, Reclaim The Records submitted a FOIL request to the New York State Department of Health for a copy of the entire New York City death index, from June 1880 [...]
Using the New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), Reclaim The Records won the first-ever public access to the 1930-1995 marriage index for New York City, over five [...]
Reclaim The Records' first FOIL request, our pilot project, was an attempt to get access under the New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) to the index to some old [...]
RT @SearchAdoption: Amazing resource!! Thank you RtR!
YOU GUYS! IT'S FINALLY ONLINE!
IT'S TOTALLY FREE!
IT'S THE NEW YORK STATE DEATH INDEX, 1880-2017!
For 'Giving Tuesday' we're giving YOU GUYS a gift:
IT'S THE NEW YORK STATE DEATH INDEX, 1880-2017!
Ten and a half million records, now finally free and online and very very searchable!
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For Giving Tuesday *YOU* got a gift: THE NEW YORK STATE DEATH INDEX, 1880-2017 - FREE! -
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We just published 1.5 million NEW BIRLS records for 2020-2023, ALL FREE -- but now the VA doesn't want you to see any of them! -
First we fight and win a four year public records lawsuit, but *then* we really get to work making the data free and usable...
*cracks knuckles, goes back to coding*
We just got notice that a Freedom of Information request we made for a certain state's vital records index in August 2020, heard as a contested case in August 2021, was finally decided in our favor...
That's nearly five years. FIVE YEARS! 😤
But we won. New data coming soon. 😊
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