----- Original Message ----- From: <Jedlhd@aol.com> To: <GATAYLOR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 9:46 AM Subject: [GATAYLOR-L] National Historical Publications & Records Comission > > The following e-mail was distributed by the NHPRC Joint Advocacy Task > Force. > I wanted to share this information, as it is of concern to any > genealogists > who use archives. I just finished signing the petition. > > Please send this to any other Rootsweb or genealogy lists you're on. > > Joy Rich > Brooklyn, NY > > > The President's budget recommendations for Fiscal Year 2006 slash or > eliminate more than 150 federal programs. In that budget, the National > Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) has been targeted > to > receive NO funding. This includes no funds for the grants program and > no funds for staffing to support the NHPRC programs. It effectively > eliminates NHPRC. > > The Council of State Historical Records Coordinators, the Society of > American Archivists, and the National Association for Government > Archivists and Records Administrators are working collaboratively to > address > this threat to NHPRC and NARA. Archivists across the U.S. are > rallying to save NHPRC while also ensuring that NARA has sufficient > funding > to sustain its current programs and continue to advance in areas > that benefit all archival repositories and every citizen of the United > States > > As part of our efforts to continue to express to Congress interest in > restoration of funding for NHPRC, we have created an online petition. > Please consider signing this petition, and please forward it to any > listservs, e-mail groups, or organizations and people you feel would be > interested in helping with this effort. It is a quick and easy way for > many > people to assist. The petition will be forwarded to the House > Appropriations Committee and Subcommittee on Treasury, Transportation, > HUD > and the Judiciary in late May. The petition can be access at: > > _www.savearchives.org_ (http://www.savearchives.org/) > > Click on the "petition" button. > > If you have not received a previous action alert on this issue, we > encourage > you to also write a letter to your members of Congress. For > information on writing letters of support, see any of the following > websites: > > _www.savearchives.org_ (http://www.savearchives.org/) > > _www.coshrc.org_ (http://www.coshrc.org/) > > _www.archivists.org_ (http://www.archivists.org/) > > Thanks for your efforts to save this important program for archives! > > Members of the NHPRC Joint Advocacy Task Force > Council of State Historical Records Coordinators: > David Carmicheal, Sandra Clark, Kathleen Roe > > Society of American Archivists: > Nancy Beaumont, Peter Gottlieb, Rand Jimerson, Joan Krizack, Richard > Pearce-Moses > > National Association of Government Archivists and Records > Administrators: > Timothy Slavin > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.10 - Release Date: 5/13/2005 > > > ==== GATAYLOR Mailing List ==== > Searchable archives are here!! > Go to <http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl> > and follow the instructions. > >