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From: Mary Bakeman <>
Subject: [MNRAMSEY] Fwd: NEWS FLASH - NARA trying to hike 338 percent onCivil War pension records price
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:19:00 -0600

Thought you'd like to know!


Thought you might like to know -- and pass it along to your friends.


>Just got from Dick Eastman - [please circulate intact, please note that
>the Civil War pension as well as other military pension/bounty records
>are not microfilmed except for Revolutionary War, only the indexes were.
>- David Samuelsen]
>
>*Warning to all U.S. genealogists! *Two rules published in the Federal
>Register on Monday, February 26, 2007, relate to fees for reproductions
>of records at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
>(NARA). In the case of Civil War pension applications, the proposal is
>for a 338% increase!
>
>Page 8327 contains a proposed rule revising fees for reproductions to
>cover NARA's costs for providing copies. On page 8279 is an interim
>final rule removing fee schedule fees for the reproduction of records of
>other Federal agencies stored in NARA records centers.
>
>The proposals are written in the finest governmental "legalese"
>language. However, it is obvious that the proposal is to *INCREASE* all
>fees. No surprise there, right?
>
>Here is the list:
>
>Type of record
>Order form
>Proposed Fee
>
>Passenger arrival lists
>NATF Form 81
>$25.00
>
>Federal Census requests
>NATF Form 82
>$25.00
>
>Eastern Cherokee applications to the Court of Claims
>NATF Form 83
>$25.00
>
>Land entry records
>NATF Form 84
>$40.00
>
>Full pension file more than 75 years old (Civil War period).
>NATF Form 85
>$125.00 (a 338% increase from the present fee of $37.00!)
>
>Full pension file more than 75 years old (non-Civil War)
>NATF Form 85
>$60.00
>
>Pension documents packet (selected records).
>NATF Form 85
>$25.00
>
>Bounty land warrant application files
>NATF Form 85
>$25.00
>
>Military service files more than 75 years old
>NATF Form 86
>$25.00
>
>Both rules are open for public comment until April 27, 2007. There's
>much more information available in the Federal Register.
>
>The link to the proposed rule is:
>http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/E7-3160.htm
>
>
><http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/E7-3160.htm>;
>
>The link to the interim final rule is:
>http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/E7-3162.htm
>
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