The following is a press release written by Reclaim the Records: www.ReclaimTheRecords.orgView this e-mail in your browser our fifty-first please-stop-trying-to-take-our-records-away newsletter New York Wants to Lock Up Vital Records — Again! Here’s How We Can Stop It, If We Act Fast A backdoor proposal to essentially ban public access to birth, marriage, and death records …
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Genealogy Restores ‘Judy Doe’s’ Name in 1984 Cold Case
On April 18, 1984, an unidentified white female was located off a dirt road near Lake Dorr in Altoona, Florida. It was determined that the remains were that of a female between 17 and 20 years old, who stood 5’0” to 5’1” tall and weighed approximately 100 pounds. Upon investigation, it was estimated that the …
Announcing the Launch of the MHS Digital Archive
The Massachusetts Historical Society collects, preserves, and provides access to collections that document the history of Massachusetts and the nation up to the present day. Information is increasingly being created and communicated in a digital environment, which means many twentieth and twenty-first century collections include or consist entirely of digital files, such as PDFs and …