Index to New York City Marriage Licenses, 1908-1929
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 [...]
New York City
Another update! The bill we helped develop and are supporting, to get scanned New York State historical records PUT ONLINE, to enshrine the indices as OPEN under state #FOIL, and to ENSURE access to historic records is moving! More progress!
https://assembly.ny.gov/leg/?default_fld=%0D%0A&leg_video=&bn=A08314&term=2025&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y&Memo=Y&LFIN=Y&Chamber%26nbspVideo%2FTranscript=Y
We already have an update on the newly-proposed law we're supporting in the New York State Legislature, the one we just told everyone about in our latest newsletter:
It now has a corresponding Assembly number (A08314) and sponsor: @AmyPaulin, Chair of the Committee on Health! 🥰
🚨 Reclaim The Records is working on A BRAND NEW LAW in the New York State Legislature! 🚨
We want to finally FIX New York State historical records access, and put it all online for everyone!
And we need your help!
Read our latest newsletter:
We did it! 🥳 And now we want to do more -- A BRAND NEW BILL to finally fix records access in New York State! -
We're going to be announcing some GOOD news soon.
Here's a hint. 😉
I encourage you to take a look at this: https://apps.neh.gov/PublicQuery/ and enter the search terms of your area of interest. 10s of 1000s (100s of 1000s?) of incredible projects supported over the last century.
In the last two weeks, I’ve had an in-process grant cancelled, a workshop that I was supposed to teach at cancelled, and a grant proposal rejected without review.
National funding agencies support work that then comes back to the people. One of the requirements for the IMLS…
@ReclaimTheRecs I appealed, and got notice today that on second search they found records for me! Thanks again!
thinking about buying 23andme and then uploading all the genomes to the Internet Archive