Teven Laxer has served on the IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee since 2006. He is the Librarian and Archivist of JGS Sacramento.

Teven served 40 years in the labor movement, most recently for the CSU Employees Union, SEIU Local 2579. He has worked as a negotiator and legislative advocate.

Teven has been researching his family’s roots in Romania, Poland, Germany and Ukraine. In 2013, he helped organize a coalition of genealogical, labor, media and good government groups to lobby against proposed restrictions to public records access in California. Teven has been representing IAJGS and RPAC in California.

“Will You Be Able to Get Records In The Future?” (Thurs-146), 4:30 – 5:45 P.M.

Globally, access to public records is becoming increasingly difficult. Whether it be due to the expansion of the “right to be forgotten/erased” which will prevent genealogists from searching their ancestry by names, places or events; or by governmental legislation and regulations that impinge on our access to vital records, our access to genealogically relevant records is being challenged.

Learn what is happening worldwide as well as in the United States. You need to become engaged in your state/country to help retain access to these records that are so important to genealogical and historical research.

[presented with Jan Meisels Allen]

Topics: Ethical considerations in genealogy, Organization and preservation