Happy #FOIAFriday
We are excited to announe the latest addition our online digital archive: Enslaved People of Stoke County, North Carolina (1790-1865).
400+ pages of enslaved names, with detailed information about them. Access via https://tinyurl.com/CFHStokeNCEPs
#northcarolinahhistory #stokescounty
When even the writers at the dry and traditional WSJ are covering how AOTUS Colleen Shogan (@AOTUS11_Shogan) is already whitewashing US history in exhibits at @USNatArchives, with NARA senior staff quitting and/or filing whistleblower lawsuits... 😂
https://archive.is/LFOF9
@XianyangCB @Catcher4242 It reminds me a little, oddly, of Italy, where a death certificate is valid for only six months before it has to be renewed. At each renewal another tax-stamp is required so that fiscal obligations pursue one beyond the grave.
This is the first time I've actually seen one of these - a passport for the dead. During the late warring states/Han dynasty people would be buried with official ID to get them into the underworld. (Translation in comments, HT @Catcher4242)
Sending love to our friends at @internetarchive which lately has been clobbered by DDOS attacks and now a hack. They're the free website where we host a lot of our images and data sets, and as a result, some of our hard-won records aren't accessible at the moment. Stay strong. ❤️🩹
Hello #AncestryHour! Tomorrow morning I go before a judge and panel to try and argue my case for access to original wills under Freedom of Information. Hopefully this will give a definitive answer to how we access original wills when only provided with an office copy. 1/2
I thought @ReclaimTheRecs might enjoy the tangent this lawyer goes on about public records and clerks who say the truth out loud sometimes.
Today in unintentionally bad spam e-mail subject lines, sent to the RTR account:
"Transform Visitors into Participants"
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It's Indexing Week at Geneanet! Help us transcribe the New York City Geographic Birth Index cards, a vast collection unearthed by Reclaim the Records - already over 120,000 individuals indexed. Check out our finding aid! #genealogy @ReclaimTheRecs https://en.geneanet.org/genealogyblog/post/2024/09/indexing-week-at-geneanet-help-us-transcribe-the-new-york-city-geographical-birth-index
