I met my grandma’s second cousin while a missionary in Sweden, and he told me we were descended from a line of Swedish witches, and people say genealogy has no value 🧙🏻♂️🪄
Sneaky how they didn't type "Freedom of Information Act," "#FOIA," or even "552" (as required by law) to try to avoid a control f search... https://twitter.com/kathoh/status/1441406507392782340
Someone somehow managed to slip in a complete exemption from FOIA, the Privacy Act, and the Sunshine in Government Act for the $42 billion broadband deployment program in the infrastructure bill (HR 3684)
I'm both aghast and impressed 😳😠 Congress needs to fix this asap
@ReclaimTheRecs I'm old enough to know just how bad that is. FoxPro is retired and I should be too.
OPEN RECORDS LIFE: One of our board members is right this minute in an FOI hearing with a state department of health, which is claiming — in a recorded meeting — that they can’t give us the birth index for that state because their database is stored in FoxPro and might crash. 😂
This will be so awesome if it is so. Yay you @ReclaimTheRecs for working so tirelessly toward this. https://twitter.com/ReclaimTheRecs/status/1440712955675365385
*whispers into the void*
it’s not totally official-official, so no formal announcement yet, but we might have just won another lawsuit (!!!) against a federal agency, not just over access issues for millions of records, but also a way to save genealogists big money on the copies
*whispers into the void*
it’s not totally official-official, so no formal announcement yet, but we might have just won another lawsuit (!!!) against a federal agency, not just over access issues for millions of records, but also a way to save genealogists big money on the copies
I imagine many here on #ancestryhour know about @ReclaimTheRecs. If not, learning about what this amazing non-profit https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/ is doing should be an essential part of your genealogy journey. #ancestryhour #FOIA
Have you registered for the 2021 Annual Meeting on October 20th at 7:30 ET? Register TODAY for meeting and feature presentation by @Alecferretti about @ReclaimTheRecs. https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MAPNfgvaRhyHJQJjif-Ylg
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