Subject: Help Save Archives > This came from another list, please read and make your own decision. > > > > > > The following e-mail is of great concern to any genealogists who use > archives. Please read, sign the petition, then send this to any other > Rootsweb or genealogy lists you're on. > > 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 > > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > ==== NYCAYUGA Mailing List ==== Have you visited the NYGenWeb project home page lately? http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenweb ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx