The genealogy organization Reclaim the Records recently won a court case in the New York Court of Appeals that will release the index to more than 10 million New York death records for the years 1880-2017.
The court has also remanded the parties back to a lower court so that a judge may conduct an “in-camera review” of which additional fields of data for all years may potentially also be disclosed by the state. The data will be freely published once the state turns over the finalized public data set to Reclaim The Records.
This index will have many more years than had ever been publicly available before and be an index where some years will have many new types and fields of data made available to the public.
To read all the details, go to: https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/records-request/32/
