🚨LEGISLATION ALERT: NEW JERSEY ABOUT TO GUT RECORDS ACCESS FOR GENEALOGISTS?🚨
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They say imitation is the highest form of flattery.
Well, we're on BlueSky now too, because some rando decided to make TWO fake accounts pretending to be us!
Our brand new VERIFIED (via our DNS records / domain name) account there is @reclaimtherecords.org
Choose wisely. ;-)
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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🚨LEGISLATION ALERT: NEW JERSEY ABOUT TO GUT RECORDS ACCESS FOR GENEALOGISTS?🚨
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Reclaim The Records’ work with our intrepid intern Michael W. McCormick, to acquire millions of Maryland birth, marriage, death, and naturalization records from the Maryland State Archives and put them online for free public use (most of them now outside their building and firewall for the first time ever) wound up covered in the Washington Post today.