Resent-From: MSGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:01:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lori Thornton <lorithor(a)yahoo.com>
Please forward to your state and local lists.
Scott Burow
NC - USGenWeb Project
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----- Original Message -----
From: Mike St. Clair/TT
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 10:55 AM
Subject: Petition on reduction in hours for National Archives
In late July, the National Archives announced they were planning to cut back the hours of
the Washington DC area facilities of the archives. This would eliminate all evening and
Saturday hours and greatly harm the ability of the average genealogist to access the
records. For full details, see
http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2006/nr06-125.html
While the Archivist of the United States was at the FGS conference he reported that they
had received very little feedback from the country's genealogists asking for
reconsideration. He was also presented with a request from the chair of the FGS Records
Preservation Committee to consider some alternatives and a petition was started to allow
genealogists to express their disagreement with the changes and to endorse alternatives
that will allow the evening and Saturday hours to continue.
You can see more details about that in Dick Eastman's weekly newsletter at:
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2006/09/quick_please_jo.html
The petition can be signed at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/FGS2006
I would encourage each of you, as board members of The USGenWeb Project to use your
influence to publicize this information throughout the project. Note that the deadline for
receiving comments on the proposed changes by the archives is September 9, so there
isn't
much time. And I suspect that if they succeed in reducing the Washington hours, the
regional archives will be soon to follow.
I appreciate all that each of you do in support of the project membership and all
genealogists with US ancestry. I believe that a little effort in support of this effort by
FGS will pay off long term in enhancing our ability to deliver free information to our
clients - genealogists everywhere.
Mike St. Clair
Lori Thornton
lorithor(a)yahoo.com
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