All posts in this category:
New York

Records Request #15

Index to Deaths in Yonkers, New York, 1880-1915

Current Status:

As a follow-up to our successful FOIL request to get the New York State death index 1880-1956, we turned our attention to the handful of missing years and localities in that index. One of those is the city of Buffalo, New York, whose records were not included in the statewide death index until about 1914-1915. On September 6, 2017, we filed a FOIL request (which you can read here at MuckRock) asking the Yonkers City Clerk’s Office for the death index for the missing years.

Read More...

Records Request #14

Index to Deaths in Buffalo, New York, 1852-1945

Current Status:

As a follow-up to our successful FOIL request to get the New York State death index 1880-1956, we turned our attention to the handful of missing years and localities in that index. One of those is the city of Buffalo, New York, whose records were not included in the statewide death index until about 1914-1915. On September 6, 2017, we filed a FOIL request (which you can read here at MuckRock) asking the Buffalo City Clerk’s Office for the death index for the missing years.

Read More...

Records Request #13

Index to Deaths in Albany, New York, 1880-1915

Current Status:

As a follow-up to our successful FOIL request to get the New York State death index 1880-1956, we turned our attention to the handful of missing years and localities in that index. One of those is the city of Albany, New York, whose records were not included in the statewide death index until about 1914-1915. On September 6, 2017, we filed a FOIL request (which you can read here at MuckRock) asking the Albany City Clerk’s Office for the death index for the missing years.

Read More...

Records Request #11

Index (Simplified Database Extract) to all New York City marriage records, 1996-2016

Current Status:

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, we filed a brand new FOIL request with the New York City Clerk’s Office asking for the continuation of that data, covering marriages from 1996-2016.

Read More...

Records Request #10

Index to New York State Births (Outside of New York City), 1880-1942

Current Status:

Reclaim The Records is working on a new FOIL request, asking for the basic index to all births in New York State (minus New York City), up to 1942. For several years, a small part of the index has been available to the public at a few public libraries, plus the National Archives (NARA) branch in Manhattan, but only on hard-to-use microfiche. Most libraries only have the microfiche information up through about 1936, but we’ve heard through the grapevine that we may be able to get the data up through 1942, so that’s what we’re going for.

Read More...

Records Request #09

Index to New York State Marriages (Outside of New York City), 1880-2016

Current Status:

Reclaim The Records is working on a new FOIL request, asking for the basic index to all marriages conducted in New York State (minus New York City), up to 2016. For several years, a small part of the index has been available to the public at a few public libraries, plus the NARA branch in Manhattan, but only on hard-to-use microfiche. We are asking for the information in digital form for the first time ever, and we are also asking for the data to extend far past the mi-twentieth century, all the way up to 2016, based in the outcome of a 1993 lawsuit from Gannett Newspapers.

Read More...

Records Request #08

List of Registered Voters in New York City for 1924

Current Status:

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 Board of Elections and printed in the City Record, a daily government publication. That means that this kind of registered voters list isn’t under copyright and is potentially available under state Freedom of Information laws — which is exactly the kind of thing we like to acquire and publish.

The list is broken down by the five boroughs (counties) of New York City, and then each borough is broken down by their Assembly Districts.

Read More...

Records Request #04

New York City Birth Certificates, 1910-1917

Current Status:

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 seven years’ worth of older birth certificates to the NYC Municipal Archives, which only has the certificates through 1909. Reclaim The Records will be making a FOIL request on or after January 1, 2018 to acquire and distribute these certificates to the public. We’re waiting until January 1st to make sure all of the 1917 certificates will be legally available and included in the request.

Read More...

Records Request #03

Index to New York State Deaths (Outside of New York City), 1880-1956

Current Status:

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 through December 31, 1956. We requested the index only in this FOIL request.

And seventeen months later, we won the records!

Read More...

1 2

Latest Tweets from @ReclaimTheRecs

Like us on Facebook

Facebook

Freedom of Information Law and Open Data Resources