🚨LEGISLATION ALERT: NEW JERSEY ABOUT TO GUT RECORDS ACCESS FOR GENEALOGISTS?🚨
Google’s “Research Project” with NYC’s Department of Records and Information Services
In January of 2019, Reclaim The Records obtained copies of approximately two years of the daily Microsoft Outlook calendars for several New York City employees working at the Department of [...]
New York City death certificates 1949-1968 and nullification of NYC DOH records access rules
We're suing New York City for the first-ever public access to the scanned images of ~1.6 million NYC death certificates for New Yorkers who died between 1949-1968, which is 50 to 75 years ago. [...]
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 City domestic partnership records, 1993-2017
This New York State Freedom of Information (FOIL) request is coming soon. Stay tuned!
Index to New York City Marriage Licenses, 1996-2017
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. [...]