Use this online searchable database of people who arrived at the immigration stations in San Francisco and Honolulu between 1882 and 1955. Search by name to identify case numbers, and obtain the file at the Federal Records Center in San...
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The Privacy Foundation is sponsoring a day-long conference on The Corporate Perspective On Privacy, which those of you in Colorado may want to attend. See the complete details at their site. The Southeast Investigators Conference, which gets under way in...
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The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that state employee addresses are not “records” but merely “contact information”, therefore are not subject to the state’s Public Records Act. Read the article. Read the...
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Louisiana State University has launched a searchable online database of Hurricane Katrina evacuees housed at the Red Cross Emergency Shelters at LSUS and Hirsch Coliseum. And here’s a site where you can search for Katrina’s victims. UPDATE – September 8:...
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Edgecombe County, North Carolina property and tax information, including spatial mapping, is now available online in a searchable database. Read the article or just go to the...
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You’ve probably made a request (many times) to remove your name from the marketing mailing lists. You can also opt out of pre-approved offer lists obtained from the consumer credit reporting companies. [Notice from the California government site: Office of...
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OpentheGovernment.org has released its 2004 Secrecy Report, Quantitative Indicators of Secrecy in the Federal Government, a slim, very readable pdf comparing the 2004 closure of records with prior years. Areas touched on are the Federal invocation of the “state secrets”...
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The inclusion of cell phone numbers in published directories is increasing in Europe and a majority of American wireless companies endorse the development of U.S. directory. Read the...
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The Riverside County, California Court online index will now separate the family law and probate cases into two indexes, starting September 6, and all of the county’s probate records will be organized into one index. The court site will be...
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Here’s a little technical tip to apply when you send someone a link to a web page. Sometimes those urls get exceedingly long, too long for one line. Go to DigBig.com (a short web address), enter a url, such as,...
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