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A reader sent this to me, knowing that we’d all like to learn more! We’ve talked about Reclaim The Records before (see: https://www.californiaancestors.org/reclaim-the-records-advocates-for-genealogy-and-more/), but they’ve done it again. Reclaim the Records is a not-for-profit group of activists. They are genealogists, historians, researchers, and a host of other activists. They find records that they think should be in the public domain and work to get them there (and digitized!).
For more information about Reclaim The Records, you can visit: https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/
In this article, we will learn about the New York Death Index project, which began in November 2021. They filed a Freedom of Information Law request with New York and when that was denied, they sued. That was won and now we have the text index to over ten and a half million death records spanning over 300 years.
I don’t have a plethora of New York ancestors and was unsuccessful finding them, but please do your best here and let us know what you find!
https://www.newyorkdeathindex.com/
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DEC
2025