Records Challenges –Issues and Opportunities in 2021
As the New Year began, there were three major pending issues of concern to the genealogical community. Recent legislative developments, when combined with
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AuthorFred Moss
RPAC at FGS 2019 in DC — Is This A Breakthrough?
The FGS Annual Conference being held this week at the Omni Shoreham hotel in DC will feature a Records Preservation and Access Committee report on Thursday
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Genealogy: Not JUST a Hobby!
Family History is a significant and growing hobby. An article appearing on the Voice of America web site in 2013 highlighted this fact
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RPAC Blog is Back!
We are grateful for the privilege of being a part of the launch of the new FGS website and sorry that the Records
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DMF — How Did The Congress Get So Far Off Track?
Posted on February 21, 2017 by FredMoss It may be that Groucho Marx said it best: “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it
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Death Master File –The Final Rule–28 Nov 2016
Today is the effective date for the Final Rule implementing the statutory mandate found in Section 203 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of
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Closing Death Records — The Logical Flaw
One of the misperceptions with which we have repeatedly had to wrestle in recent years has been that ALL Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
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Closing Death Records Is Just Dead Wrong!
Posted on October 28, 2016 by FredMoss The threat of Identity Theft has prompted over a thousand legislative proposals at the Federal, state or local level
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ID360 — Closing Death Records: “Silver Bullet” or Detour? — A Case Study — Updated
Posted on July 5, 2015 by FredMoss Last Fall, the readers of this blog were introduced to the work of the Center for Identity at the University
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ID Wise from the Center for Identity
Posted on October 23, 2014 by FredMoss Like every other citizen, modern genealogists also live their lives on an internet populated by identity thieves. The Center
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