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Re:Show HN: New search engine and free-FOIA-by-fax-via-web f... by fergbrain on Monday January 13, 2025 @08:10AM (#42683043)
Thanks for your efforts in liberating this data so that Ancestry.com isn’t the only ones with it!

Reminds me a bit muckrock.com as well.

Re:Show HN: New search engine and free-FOIA-by-fax-via-web f... by Asparagirl on Monday January 13, 2025 @10:45AM (#42684682)
We love MuckRock! And we made the original FOIA request to the VA for this dataset via MuckRock’s platform. You can see the actual screenshot in the “Reclaiming These Records” legal papers section. They also get a shoutout in our colophon for indirectly inspiring the FOIA-by-fax-via-web method, although I believe their site uses e-mail, including interfacing with agency FOIA portals when possible.