Check this out if you're interested in our own History and Genealogy. Lets show how we feel about this CUT. Sign the petition I just received this and am passing it on. > The following email was distributed by the NHPRC Joint Advocacy Task > Force. I wanted to share this information, as it is of concern to many > of us who use archives. I just finished signing the petition. > > > 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 > > 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 > > www.coshrc.org > > 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 > ==== ILLAKE Mailing List ==== If you wish to unsubscribe from the Lake Co., IL list, send only UNSUBSCRIBE to ILLAKE-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the digest list to ILLAKE-d-request@rootsweb.com ============================== New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599 &targetid=5429