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Reclaim The Records vs. New York State Department of Health

In the summer of 2018, Reclaim The Records launched a Freedom of Information lawsuit against the New York State Department of Health to find out why they treated our Freedom of Information [...]

Index to Deaths in Yonkers, New York, c. 1870-1915

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 [...]

Index to Deaths in Buffalo, New York, 1852-1944

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]