Veterans’ Records

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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