We should be so lucky to get 10-15 pages. The most we ever received was 3 pages. Whoop De De ! Nancy Ladyh19777@aol.com wrote: > Martha, > > In searching for records at the National Archives I have used the services of > Beth Adams numerous times. She lives outside of DC and does lookups at NARA > for a very reasonable fee. > When you write to the Archives for pension records they only send you 10-15 > pages, almost always there are more papers in the files that you never have > access to unless you are able to travel to DC to research yourself (they also > have a 6 month backlog). Case in point, years ago I requested a pension file > for a ggg grandfather, after waiting for several months I finally received > what I thought was the file. Little did I know there were actually 60 pages > in his file and on one of the pages of the application he stated where he was > born. Up until Beth sent the whole file to me I was unaware of this fact > because that page was not included in what the Archives sent to me. Just > think of all the wasted time!! > I highly recommend Beth's service, she is very effecient and trustworthy. > She can be reached at sadam@mnsinc.com. > > Good luck in your research! > Alinda