Debra asked: "Would these licenses apply to an actual store that wanted to set up a display outside their doors?" Sorry, Debra, I don't really know. I would assume not, though, since that would not be

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Okay, part two of my message about the surviving NYC "stand" licenses, for small stands and stalls (though not mobile pushcarts) that were located within the property lines of buildings in New York Ci

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I am unsure if old NYC pushcart licenses still exist, but I can tell you for sure that old NYC "stand" licenses, for small outdoor stalls and stands that were in front of buildings but still within th

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Hello again from your friends at Reclaim The Records! We have an exciting update in our long-running legal battle to: (1) acquire and then release to the public about 1.6 million currently-inaccessibl

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Jonathan O'Donnell wrote: "This is so great! Will the lawsuit against the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene also seek to recover the New York City death index books through 1986 th

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Jeff Gee wrote last week: "That's wonderful news! I hope your FOIL extends to those people at the NYC Health Department, Vital Recordssection. They have been so difficult to deal with." Hi Jeff, I'm h

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Reclaim The Records is once again taking on the New York City Municipal Archives, but this time we're asking for ALLLLL THEIR RECORDS. All of them. We want every historical New York City birth, marria

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A minor correction: we formally submitted our FOIA request to NARA on Wednesday (October 14th), not Monday. See, we really did wait. ;-) - Brooke Schreier Ganz Mill Valley, California

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Ethan W. Kent commented: "it seems to me that 1) it has probably taken much time and effort to scan the huge number of Images already available online via that Catalog" Yes, it did. And it was clearly

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Hello again from Reclaim The Records! We're writing today, to let you know that we just filed the single largest Freedom of Information Act request in our organization's history, for billions of histo

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Ten Million Brand New Records Now Online! Reclaim the Records is super-proud to announce the long-awaited publication of the Missouri Birth Index (1920-2015) and the Missouri Death Index (1968-2015)!

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Jed Brickner asked about the legality of patrons taking personal photos of microfilm images at the New York City Municipal Archives. It's a very good question! And so I hope you will indulge reading a

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HELLO, YONKERS! Reclaim The Records has won our Freedom of Information fight for the birth and death records from Yonkers, New York! They're now online, and free! After literally years of negotiating

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🎉 WE WON! WE WON! 🎉 Reclaim The Records is thrilled to announce that we won our long-running Missouri Sunshine Law suit for the first-ever free and public copies of the Missouri birth index for 1920-2

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Good news for people researching New York ancestors: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) just awarded a grant in their latest cycle to digitize all the Bronx AND Queens naturalizat

Greetings from Reclaim The Records! We're your favorite little non-profit organization that picks fights with government agencies, archives, and libraries for better public access to genealogical reco

Reclaim The Records is excited to introduce the first-ever freely-available publication, online or otherwise, of the Mississippi Statewide Death Index! This record set covers deaths in the state of Mi

💸 A BLACK FRIDAY SALE? 💸 🤬 NO, A 492% PRICE HIKE! 🤬 Hello again from Reclaim The Records! We're interrupting your probable post-Thanksgiving stupor to bring you some important and time-sensitive recor

It's done! It's signed! As a strategic partner of the New York Adoptee Rights Coalition (NYARC), we at Reclaim The Records are happy to announce that the bill to equalize the right of access to origin

Judy writes: "Manhattan 1910-1914 only has "a" which only goes through 425 East Broadway (of course I need Norfolk St.) - will the rest of Manhattan 1910-1914 be added?" Hi Judy, Reclaim The Records h