Trading card: Reclaim the Records

Over 10 million deaths in New York are now searchable

The American organization Reclaim The Records has launched a new and comprehensive database of deaths in the state of New York. The database, which is available on...

New York State Death Records 1880–2017 become public

Reclaim The Records is an American non-profit organization that works to make family history documents freely available to the public. They use legal instruments, such as...

New York wants to restrict access to public records – strong opposition...

New York's government has included a controversial proposal in the 2026 state budget that could make it harder for the public to access important...

1.76 million births and deaths from New Jersey online

Since 2015, the organization Reclaim the Records has been working to make family history sources freely available to the public. Now they have published birth records from New...

New York has been sued for not making death certificates available

The non-profit organization known as Reclaim the Records has now sued New York to make 1.6 million death certificates freely available...

Family history sources made available after four years in court

10 million Americans are now searchable online after a four-year long lawsuit to make the sources freely available.Missouri Department of Health...

Publicly unavailable sources from New York, published for the first time

For the first time, several family history sources from Yonkers, New York, have become available to the public. The sources have neither been available to the public in...

Register of dead from Nebraska, now online.

For the first time, a register of the dead in Nebraska has been published online. The registry is completely free to use and has never before...