NY-CAN-NY-L Archives

From: ConnorsGenealogy <>
Subject: Military Records now available
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:27:15 -0700

New announcement from the NARA website.

National Personnel Records Center (St. Louis, MO)

Archival Programs Division

The Department of Defense and the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) signed an agreement on July 7, 2004, to make the
Official Military Personnel Files a permanent series of records,
transferred to NARA custody 62 years after the service member's
separation from the military.

On June 11, 2005, the Archival Programs Division at the National
Personnel Records Center will open the following holdings:

* Navy enlisted personnel files for individuals who were separated
from the Navy from 1885 through September 8, 1939.
* Marine Corps enlisted personnel files for individuals who were
separated from the Marine Corps from 1906 through September 8, 1939.
* A select collection, approximately 150 at this time, of records of
prominent individuals (Persons of Exceptional Prominence) who have been
deceased ten years or more. We will add to this initial transfer of
records on a regular basis and a listing of these records open to
researchers will be made available on this page later this year.

The records described above will be open to researchers at this center
after June 11, 2005. Written requests for records will initially be
processed the same as requests for other military records from NPRC. As
new reference procedures are developed they will be published on this
web page.

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