Archive guide · US
Reclaim The Records (US vital indexes, via Open Archives)
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What it holds
Birth, marriage and death INDEXES released under FOIA: New York State & NYC, New Jersey, Missouri, Nebraska, Mississippi, Maryland, Connecticut; BIRLS veteran deaths
Who runs it, and on what terms
- Provider
- Reclaim The Records / Open Archives
- Licence for use here
- Public domain (Reclaim The Records) served as CC0 by Open Archives
- Attribution
- Credit 'Reclaim The Records' and link the Open Archives record
- Cost to search
- free
- Terms read
- 2026-09-06
- Official documentation
- https://www.openarchieven.nl/api/docs/
How to search it in Provara
- Birth, marriage and death records: ask Provara for a birth, marriage or death by name, place and year.
- Record indexes: ask Provara to look a name up in the public indexes.
- Provara searches this archive alongside every other live one, ranks what comes back by how many of the person's recorded facts each hit contains, and shows you the record with a ready citation. Nothing is added to your tree until you confirm it.
Record types here
- Birth, marriage and death records — Civil registration and church registers: the dates and parents that anchor every generation.
- Record indexes — Name indexes to births, marriages and deaths released by public agencies — the finding aid that tells you which certificate to order.
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