[Opengenalliance] Fwd: upcoming genealogy records access lecture at the Center for Jewish History

[Javier Ruiz]

HI

long time no traffic

please see request below 

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> From: Moriah Amit <mamit at cjh.org>
> Subject: upcoming genealogy records access lecture at the Center for Jewish History
> Date: 1 December 2016 at 16:41:35 GMT
> To: "javier at openrightsgroup.org" <javier at openrightsgroup.org>
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> Dear Mr. Ruiz Diaz,
> On December 15, Brooke Schreier Ganz, founder of Reclaim The Records, will be giving a lecture at the Center for Jewish History on how to use FOIA laws to make unlawfully restricted genealogical records freely accessible to the public. Would you be amenable to sending the below announcement of this lecture to the Open Genealogy Alliance’s e-mail list and/or posting it on the Alliance’s social media channels?
> Thank you very much,
> Moriah Amit, M.S.L.I.S.
> Senior Reference Services Librarian, Genealogy Coordinator
> Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute
> Center for Jewish History
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> Reclaim the Records: Using Freedom of Information Laws for Genealogical and Archival Research 
> Family History Today lecture at the Center for Jewish History
> 15 West 16th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues), New York, NY 10011
> Thursday, December 15, 6:30 PM
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> Brooke Schreier Ganz, founder of Reclaim The Records, states: “Tired of being told by archives, libraries, and government agencies that the records they hold are ‘unavailable’ to the public, only available behind a paywall, or only available to view if you can visit them onsite? We were too, so we figured out how to do something about it. Reclaim The Records, a new not-for-profit activist group, uses state Freedom of Information (FOI) laws to obtain copies of previously-inaccessible archival record sets, which we then freely post online, without any copyrights or usage restrictions. Our work has enabled the first-ever public access to millions of archival records from New York and New Jersey, from marriage records to registered voter lists to tax rolls. We started with a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in the Supreme Court of New York in 2015 -- and won! -- and are now spreading our legal work to other cities and states. This presentation will walk through the history and legal basics of FOI laws, and will teach researchers how to file their own state FOI requests for any genealogical or archival records they may want to see returned to the public domain.”
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> To reserve your tickets, please visit http://programs.cjh.org/event/reclaim-the-records <http://programs.cjh.org/event/reclaim-the-records>. 

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