Jan Alpert, Author at Records Advocate

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New York City Proposed Rules Change: Licensing Fees for Reuse of Public Documents

October 17, 2020December 1, 2020Jan Alpert Comment

RPAC wants to thank Jan Meisels Allen and the IAJGS Records-Alert http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts for bringing the proposed regulations from the New York City Department [...]

NYC Proposal to Further Restrict Access to Vital Records

October 9, 2017September 24, 2020Jan Alpert Comment

The New York City Health Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has proposed a new rule that would restrict access to birth records [...]

What You Need to Know about the National Archives Proposed FY 2018 Budget Cuts

July 6, 2017December 18, 2018Jan Alpert Comment

In Anticipation of Budget Cuts, NARA Just Announced Saturday Hours to Be Eliminated Soon On May 22, 2017, President Trump released more details [...]

Oklahoma Department of Health Debuts OK2Explore

January 10, 2017December 2, 2020Jan Alpert Comment

On Monday, 9 January 2017, the Oklahoma Department of Health launched OK2Explore, a new vital records website, before a standing room only meeting [...]

Genealogists Support Archivists’ Policy on Access to State and Local Records

July 5, 2016July 5, 2016Jan Alpert Comment

Dilts GD, Second floor microfilm cabinets, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah The Records Preservation and Access Committee (RPAC) supports the Joint [...]

Improved Access to Virginia Vital Records

April 23, 2016December 2, 2020Jan Alpert Comment

Program Sponsored by the Records Preservation and Access Committee On Wednesday, 4 May 2016, at the NGS 2016 Family History Conference in [...]

Unintended Consequences of Closing Access to the Death Master File

April 1, 2016December 2, 2020Jan Alpert Comment

More than two years ago Section 203 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 closed access to the Death Master File (known to [...]

Support the Congressional History Caucus

March 2, 2016Jan Alpert Comment

RPAC is a member of the National Coalition for History (NCH), a consortium of over fifty organizations that advocates on federal, state, and [...]

Genealogists’ Declaration of Rights Exceeds 10,000 Signatures

February 5, 2016Jan Alpert Comment

Genealogists Support Declaration of Rights RPAC is pleased to announce that the 10,000 signature threshold was exceeded on Thursday, 4 February 2016 at [...]

Data Privacy Regulations in the European Union

January 19, 2016January 19, 2016Jan Alpert Comment

If you are a genealogist researching ancestors in one of the twenty-eight-member European Union countries, you have reason to be concerned. Changes [...]