# Reclaim The Records: New York City indexes

> Vital record indexes, Burials for United States. Access: Open web. Terms checked November 2, 2026.

- Slug: reclaim-the-records-nyc
- Page: https://api.lineage.rexstjohn.com/sources/reclaim-the-records-nyc
- JSON: https://api.lineage.rexstjohn.com/v1/sources/reclaim-the-records-nyc
- Records: Vital record indexes, Burials
- Places: United States
- Years: 1880 to 2017
- Access method: open_web
- Key required: no
- Rate limit: none stated by the source
- Status: live
- Review: verified, checked by hand on 2026-11-02
- Homepage: https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/
- API docs: https://archive.org/developers/
- Terms: https://archive.org/about/terms

## Notes

Link-out to the Internet Archive collection reclaimtherecords, never the reclaimtherecords.org or nycmarriageindex.com web pages. Checked through the Internet Archive advanced search API: the New York City items (534) are page images of index books (NYC Marriage Index by borough and year, 1908 to 1949; NYC Geographical Birth Index by borough, 1880 to 1917; Hart Island burial records; voter lists), which carry no name-level search. The only name-level data files are the NYC Marriage Index 1950 to 1995 and 1996 to 2017, published as bulk ZIP, XLS and SQL downloads (public domain mark), mostly about people who may be alive and far too large to read per request. So no connector reads it: a plan node names the borough and year volumes to open and links to the matching collection search.

## Evidence

- https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=collection%3Areclaimtherecords&fl%5B%5D=identifier&rows=0&output=json
- https://archive.org/metadata/nycmarriageindex_1950-1995_data_csv
- https://archive.org/metadata/nycmarriageindex_1996-2017_data_csv
- https://archive.org/robots.txt

## Status

Live at the last check, 2026-11-03 04:34 UTC. HTTP 200 in 2238 ms. One check a day.

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