Index to New York City Marriage Licenses, 1930-1995
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 [...]
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 [...]
This thread… power to the people. 🤗
Love it when our government gaslights us. It's great here, we're all great, thanks.
(We're on YEAR FOUR of waiting for this very agency, @USNatArchives to respond to two FOIA requests. Tweets like this aren't informative, they're functionally lies.)
https://twitter.com/FOIA_Ombuds/status/1786377669371703467
Hit the genealogy jackpot 👍.
We finally found the British war baby of a Canadian soldier killed in Italy in 1944. The soldier’s brother’s descendants discovered his letters, photos, memorabilia. Then reached out for help to return soldier’s legacy to his daughter after 80yrs.
Found on OPRAmachine. I guess we know why @SenatorLorettaW's OPRA/OPMA bills never even got a hearing in 2021.
(And also why they want to amend OPRA to make sure that sites like OPRAmachine can't exist anymore).
Thrilled to see the ~70% of NYC vital records that have been digitized by the city are now finally showing up on other websites, too.
But even more thrilled that those websites correctly understand that NO ONE needs @nycrecords' "permission" to do it. 😁
https://blog.myheritage.com/2024/05/myheritage-releases-new-york-city-birth-marriage-and-death-record-collections/
If you want a great example of why "genealogy" records are so useful to data journalism, check out this new feature from the San Francisco Chronicle about the rise and semi-decline of Japantown, which relies on the 1950 US census data, person by person:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/sf-japantown-incarceration/
Here’s one: an agency tried charging $200 for a screenshot of a FB page bc they argued it required significant tech knowledgede. We sued. They hired an expert. Lol. They obviously lost big time
But this bill would make it impossible to challenge such nonsense
Lots of issues with the bad OPRA bill, one of which is that a service fee will be “presumed to be reasonable” and thus impossible to challenge. So, weigh in with your absurd service charges here. Agencies will 100% use them to stop access if they know they can’t be challenged
The Assembly hasn’t taken any action on the OPRA bill yet. And it’s looking more and more like any member who votes for it won’t have the Line to protect them from a primary challenger next year…
Meanest April Fools Day prank tweet we saw today
https://twitter.com/SeamusHughes/status/1774979813368795257
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