Please accept my apology--I did not realize this was an untrue rumor, as
the following message states. Betty
From: babrown(a)fast.net (Barbara A. Brown) Date: Thu, Jul 15, 1999,
3:30pm (CDT+1) To: GILLAM-L(a)rootsweb.com Subject: Re: GILLAM-D Digest
V99 #74
Subject: Fwd: [VAALBEMA-L] Found Pension Records
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 19:38:01 -0500 (CDT)
., IA, July 1999 Newsletter:
"Pension Files Found
Over a hundred boxes of pension records that date back to the
...
in American Genealogy Magazine by Datatrace System, PO Box 1587,
Stephenville, Texas."
"Veterans Records Discovered
Some 10 million duplicate of 20th century military records thought to
have been destroyed in the 1973 fire have been found by the Veterans
Administration. If you have been told the records you need were burned
The above is UNTRUE!
The website for "American Genealogy Magazine" has a clear statement -
"Note: Contrary to published reports, we do not have duplicates of any
military records which were destroyed in a fire at the St. Louis records
facility. "
The records for which American Genealogy Magazine has published an INDEX
( not the records) are early pension records, sixteen thousand of them,
held by and certainly known about by NARA.
and the NPRC spokesperson writes:
"The information concerning lost/recovered records is not accurate. No
military personnel records or medical records presumed to be lost or
destroyed have been found or recovered. Unfortunately that
unsubstantiated rumor has been circulating since the mid 1980s -- but is
totally false."
Note that this has been circulating for at least twelve years!