----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan J." <jnrose@webtv.net> To: <VTDATA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 PM 1:40 Subject: Military Records now available > Hi researchers, > I thought you might be interested in this announcement I received on > another mailing list. Jan Jordan > ================================== > X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, Jun 11, 2005, From: > ConnorsGenealogy <nymets11@pacbell.net> To: > NYRENSSE-L@rootsweb.com > > New announcement from the NARA website. > National Personnel Records Center (St. Louis, MO) > Archival Programs Division > > The Department of Defense and the National Archives and Records > Administration (NARA) signed an agreement on July 7, 2004, to make the > Official Military Personnel Files a permanent series of records, > transferred to NARA custody 62 years after the service member's > separation from the military. > > On June 11, 2005, the Archival Programs Division at the National > Personnel Records Center will open the following holdings: > * Navy enlisted personnel files for individuals > who were separated from the Navy from 1885 through September 8, 1939. > * Marine Corps enlisted personnel files for > individuals who were separated from the Marine Corps from 1906 through > September 8, 1939. > * A select collection, approximately 150 at this > time, of records of prominent individuals (Persons of Exceptional > Prominence) who have been deceased ten years or more. We will add to > this initial transfer of records on a regular basis and a listing of > these records open to researchers will be made available on this page > later this year. > > The records described above will be open to researchers at this center > after June 11, 2005. Written requests for records will initially be > processed the same as requests for other military records from NPRC. As > new reference procedures are developed they will be published on this > web page. > > > > ==== VTDATA Mailing List ==== > Visit the USGenWeb Windham County Vermont Archives Table of Contents > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/vt/windham.htm >