Veterans' Records

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A federal court in New York <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Veteransrecords.pdf"><strong>granted</strong></a> summary judgment to a genealogical activist group, ordering the release of death files from the Department of Veterans Affairs database in a dispute brought after Ancestry.com posted information provided to it by the Veterans Health Administration, which had erroneously included 5,223 living veterans among the 14.4 million records of purportedly deceased veterans. </span>

MANHATTAN – A federal court in New York granted summary judgment to a genealogical activist group, ordering the release of death files from the Department of Veterans Affairs database in a dispute brought after Ancestry.com posted information provided to it by the Veterans Health Administration, which had erroneously included 5,223 living veterans among the 14.4 million records of purportedly deceased veterans.

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