Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:17:33 -0700
From: Wilson Roberts <willr(a)netzone.com>
To: NCROOTS-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [NCROOTS] (fwd) Re:forms
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:59:14 -0500, "NNU Public Reference Inquire"
<inquire(a)arch2.nara.gov> wrote:
Welcome to the National Archives and Records Administration's e-mail
reference and information service, inquire(a)arch2.nara.gov !
Operated by the staff of the Customer Services Division, "inquire" is
intended to provide timely responses to reference requests, or at
least get the process started quickly by referring your message to the
appropriate office or person. We also answer general inquiries about
the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). If you have
not visited NARA's web page, we recommend that you do because there is
much useful information about the agency and its records holdings and
services. The URL is:
http://www.nara.gov .
This message is automatically generated whenever one of the following
words appears in the text of an incoming message: form, forms, and
Form. We have set up our e-mail system in this way because we have
found that these words appear frequently in requests for the specific
genealogy reference forms we use at NARA. (AHA!) The numbers and
subjects of these forms are as follows:
Form 80 (Military service and pension records prior to World War I,
including the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, the Mexican War, Civil
War, and the Spanish-American War)
Form 81 (Passenger Arrival Records)
Form 82 (Copies of Census Records -- requiring your knowledge of the
publication, roll, and page number, as we do not conduct searches of
Census Records for you)
Form 83 (Eastern Cherokee Applications)
Form 84 (Land Entry Papers -- for Federal lands only), and
Form 180 (Military Service Records, World War I and later -- the form
can also be downloaded directly from the following internet location:
http://www.nara.gov/regional/mpr.html)
If you indicated in your original message the FORM NUMBER, the
QUANTITY needed, and YOUR POSTAL MAILING ADDRESS, you have given us
the information we need to fill your order. However, if you did not
include this information in your original message, please re-send your
message with this information. While we try to fill orders within 10
days, sometimes the number of inquiries is too great to do so. We
therefore appreciate your patience very much.
If your inquiry concerns a different subject or one which requires a
more substantive reply, it will be evaluated by an archivist (a real
person, honest!) and either answered by that person directly, or
referred to the proper reference or other office. Please do not
expect immediate responses from other offices as it takes more time to
make a substantive reply -- usually 2 to 3 weeks.
As with any electronic system, problems/bugs sometime occur. If this
should happen to you or you want to register a comment, complaint, or
congratulations for a job well-done, please send your e-mail to:
bob.coren(a)arch2.nara.gov .
From Tom, Charlene, Cynthia, Faye and Bob, thanks for reading this
entire
message (and don't forget the NARA web page!).
>> "willr(a)netzone.com" 01/19/00 17:57 >>>
This is a test message to get the form number for Vets after 1929.
Please ignore.
Thank you
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