Miriam Weiner will talk about her work to open records in the archives of Eastern Europe to genealogists everywhere.

An Evening with Anne Hanson Author of Buried Secrets: Looking for Frank and Ida Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at 7:00 PM ET via Zoom This...

Massachusetts Archivist Jack Warner, PhD, new additions to the vital records and Judicial Archives collections, and his favorites.

David E. Rencher, Chief Genealogical Officer for FamilySearch International, was today awarded the 2023 Shirley Barnes Record Access Award.

It's my nemisis, that traffic circle. It had been a long time since I made the trek, east on the Mass Pike, south on I-93, off the ramp...

On 30 June 2022 Irish President Michal D. Higgins signed The Birth Information and Tracing Act.

Massachusetts Genealogical Council Awards the Fourth Annual Shirley M. Barnes Records Access Award to Stephen P. Morse, Ph.D., Joel D. Weint

An Evening with John D. "Jack" Warner, Ph.D. Archivist of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 7:00 PM EDT via...

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services asked for feedback about the impact of their policies. Now, they didn't do this...

MGC announced on Sunday, May 15, 2021, that Jan Meisels Allen received the 2021 Shirley Barnes Records Access Award for her years of hard...

We humans are not the only ones that greet the new year with resolve to do better or fix things. As genealogists, some of the...

An evening with Brooke Schreier Ganz Founder and President of Reclaim The Records Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 7:00 PM via Zoom It's...

(VIRTUAL: April 4, 2020) At the opening of the bi-annual Virtual Conference "Origins and Destinations," the Massachusetts Genealogical...

Hard data from the federal government shows that the longer a state closes vital records, the more likely it has higher consumer ID theft.

We don't often ask for your help, but this is a serious issue and a community-wide response is needed.

Attendees are encouraged to express their opinions and concerns in this open orum for discussion at the Boston Public Library.

The revenue-generating provision mandates that any death reported to the Social Security Administration be withheld from the Social Security

The estimate then is that 9.4 million more deaths will occur in the U.S. before a single one of them is in the SSDI that we access.

Genealogists and anyone interested in open access to public records, please sign this petition!

Here are some of the efforts genealogists make – for the public good – using the SSDI.