EXTRA, EXTRA! Front page news report in Albany about just how awful NYSDOH – New York State Health Department has been at fulfilling all of our records requests for years!
New York City death certificates 1949-1968 and nullification of NYC DOH records access rules
We're suing New York City for the first-ever public access to the scanned images of ~1.6 million NYC death certificates for New Yorkers who died between 1949-1968, which is 50 to 75 years ago. [...]
Index to New York State Births (Outside of New York City), 1881-1942
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 [...]
Missouri Birth Index, 1920(ish)-2015
Missouri does not have a basic genealogical birth index available to the public for any year after 1910. But in early 2016, we discovered that Missouri's state Vital Statistics law actually may [...]
New Jersey Birth, Marriage, and Death Indices, 1901-1903 and 1901-1914
Reclaim The Records is excited to announce that, in coordination with the New Jersey State Archives in Trenton, we have [...]
New York City Birth Certificates, 1910-1917
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 [...]