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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