🚨LEGISLATION ALERT: NEW JERSEY ABOUT TO GUT RECORDS ACCESS FOR GENEALOGISTS?🚨
We Want Our Records Back.
And we get them! More than sixty million records reclaimed so far
We’re Reclaim The Records, a new not-for-profit activist group of genealogists, historians, researchers, and open government advocates. We identify important genealogical records sets that ought to be in the public domain but which are being wrongly restricted by government archives, libraries, and agencies. We file Freedom of Information and Open Data requests to get that public data released back to the public. And if the government doesn’t comply, we take them to court.
Then we digitize everything we win and put it all online for free, without any paywalls or usage restrictions, so that it can never be locked up again. Learn more about our work and sign up for our newsletter.
Help us reclaim even more.
We started our work in New York City in 2015, expanded to three new vital records jurisdictions in 2016, and became a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit in 2017. Your support helps us continue the fight for open records nationwide.
Recent Records Requests
![New Jersey Death Index](https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
New Jersey Death Index, 1904-2017
![Reclaim The Records - New Jersey Geographical Birth Index](https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
The New Jersey Geographic Birth Index and Delayed Birth Index, 1901-1929
![Reclaim The Records - New Jersey Marriage Index - example #2](https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
New Jersey Marriage Index, 1901-2016
![New Jersey marriage index](https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
New Jersey Birth, Marriage, and Death Indices, 1901-1903 and 1901-1914
Lectures and Presentations
Upcoming Talks
August 1: Lecture at the annual IAJGS Conference in Cleveland, OH
August 22-23: Two presentations at the annual Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) conference in Washington, DC
September 12: Lecture at the Contra Costa County Genealogical Society in Concord (San Francisco Bay Area), CA
September 19: Lecture at the annual Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) Professional Management Conference in Salt Lake City, UT
October 2: Lecture via videoconference to JGS of Cleveland, Beachwood, OH
October 19: Lecture at the Irish Family History Forum in Bethpage (Long Island), NY
Recent Talks
2019: Recorded lecture with live Q&A at Capital Region JGS (Albany, NY); Online Lecture for Legacy FamilyTree Webinars; hosted the bimonthly #genchat; San Ramon Valley Genealogy Society (Danville, CA);
2018: JGS of Washington State (Bellevue, WA); Mt. Diablo Genealogical Society (Walnut Creek, CA); Fairfax Genealogical Society (Vienna, VA); JGS of Maryland (Baltimore, MD); National Genealogical Society annual conference (Grand Rapids, MI)
2017: Live-Streamed Lecture at the 2017 IAJGS conference (Orlando, FL); Santa Clara County Historical and Genealogical Society; San Luis Obispo County Genealogy Society; Oakland FamilySearch Library with the San Francisco Bay Area JGS; JGS of Cleveland (Beachwood, OH, via videoconference)
2016: JGS of Long Island (Plainview, NY); The Center For Jewish History (New York, NY); Lecture at the 2016 IAJGS conference (Seattle, WA); San Francisco Bay Area JGS (San Francisco, CA)
See more of our presentations, slides, videos, and webinars