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From: "Warren" <>
Subject: Re: [ILGALLAT] NARA PRICES GOING UP
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 21:11:17 -0800


Do you have an address for the Nara website? I requested 119 pages of
pension file a few years ago and they sent me the whole thing.

----- Original Message -----
From: Kes & Sandy Truelove <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 8:04 PM
Subject: [ILGALLAT] NARA PRICES GOING UP


> Date: March 01, 2000 9:40 PM
> Subject: [INSTEUBE-L] Fwd: FW: NARA PRICES GOING UP
>
>
> Received this from the Steuben Co, Indiana Mail List -- Kes Truelove
>
> >> One of my list members sent this email to me and asked if I would check
> >> into this. I live in the Washington, D.C. area and have access to the
> >> National Archives. This member knows I provide a service for
performing
> >> lookups for researchers at the National Archives, so she asked me if I
> >> would look into this. Apparently, this email is making its rounds to
> >> various rootsweb mailing lists with no further explanation.
> >>
> >> I was just told by the National Archives that there is a proposal in
the
> >> works to change the way they do business. Currently, when you request
a
> >> pension record, the Archives sends out only 10-20 pages of the record
> >> and not the whole file. They are proposing to change this to instead
of
> >> sending out part of the file to sending copies of the whole pension
> >> record. The average pension record is approximately 125-135 pages.
The
> >> proposal is calling for a flat rate of $40 to obtain the whole pension
> >> file regardless of the size of the file.
> >>
> >> Since I'm very familiar with these records, I asked the person about
the
> >> files less than the average size of a pension record. I have ran
> >> acrossed some pension records that where only 10-30 pages. The person
> >> told me that the smaller files would most likely be charged the same
> >> cost as the proposed increase for the service records.
> >>
> >> So yes, there is a proposal to increase the costs of obtaining records
> >> from the National Archives, but it's due to the proposed changes of the
> >> way they currently process requests now.
> >>
> >> The person who wrote the original email recommends that researchers
> >> should get their orders in now before the price increase. After
talking
> >> to the Archives, this would only hurt the researcher not help. Up
until
> >> July 1, the Archives will continue to only send the 10-20 pages of the
> >> pension file. After July 1, is when they will begin sending out the
> >> whole pension record. So, in my opinion, if your going to requests
> >> records from the Archives, then it will be better to wait until after
> >> the increase. This will save time and money.
> >>
> >> Again, let me emphasize that this is only a PROPOSAL and nothing is
> >> final as of today. Once the proposal becomes finalized, it will be
> >> posted on the Federal Register that can be accessed from the Nara
> >> website.
> >>
> >> I just thought I would make the Listowners aware of what was going on
at
> >> Nara just incase this email comes across your lists.
> >
> >
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