You are entitled to your opinion... Sorry, but how may requests can they process in an hour, Nine??? six?? at that rate they are collecting $162 per hour...Do you make anywhere near that much?? And they charge EXTRA if any research is required... And they are PUBLIC Employees of the Citizens of this Great Nation. It is just more bureaucrats that they don't want to be bothered by those Citizens... Somebody has forgotten the reason for their job...to SERVE those Citizens... I say FILL the E-Mail boxes of the Members of Congress...we only have a few days left... >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [GABULLOC] Increased SS copy prices >Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:04:44 EDT > >The general concensus on the genealogy lists is that $27 is too high for a >copy of the Social Security Card application for our ancestors. But I have >to file a dissenting opinion: These records are not there for >genealogists; we just got lucky. > >Because of the increased "popularity" of these records, the time and >manpower necessary to respond to all of our requests for copies of the >records has >"skyrocketed" too. So we've made our bed, and we'll just have to pay for >the housekeeping now. > > > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com