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From: "Chad Milliner" <>
Subject: Big news for military service records
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:31:25 -0700


http://www.archives.gov/media_desk/press_releases/nr05-73.html

"For the first time, nearly 1.2 million official military personnel files of former US Navy and Marine Corps enlisted personnel who served between 1885 and 1939 will be open to the public. This first opening also includes 150 "persons of exceptional prominence", including former Presidents, famous military leaders, celebrities, entertainers and professional athletes who served in the military and have been deceased for at least 10 years."

Apparently, the records will be available for routine use beginning next week, following a public open house this Saturday. "On Saturday, June 11, 2005, the National Archives National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis will formally open the records ... the public is invited to an open house from noon to 3 PM. Guided tours of the National Personnel Records Center for the public offers an opportunity to see areas that have never been opened to the public before, including record storage and stack areas, the Preservation Lab and a new archival research room."

I wish I could be in St. Louis this Saturday! I was hoping that NARA would have held an open house at their two records facilities there when the FGS conference was there in 1999, but no such event was then held.


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