Jim I agree with you, would save time and increase money for future requests. The online downloads could be win/win for all. NARA could sell memberships as does Heritage Quest. Will never happen as makes too sense!!! I know as a 40 year USPS retired employee. gerald --- Jim Gilmer <jimgilmer@charter.net> wrote: > Julia, > > I got thru the instructions and submitted my > comments. One note of interest > the increase from $37 to $125 is for the full civil > war pension file; the > cost for the civil war pension document packet > (selected documents) went > down from $37 to $25. The info in the federal > register from NARA states > that this latter pension file is what is ordered by > most researchers. Don't > know why that would be true, unless a genealogical > researcher wasn't aware > of the distinction when ordering. There is more > likely to be more > genealogical info in the full pension file. > > Jim Gilmer > > -------Original Message------- > >