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    1. Pension Papers
    2. gayle
    3. If one requests just pension papers, the bill seems to still be $10.00. However if you request ALL of the file (or both selected and non-selected records) the bill may be higher. You can write on your form, "please send the selected and advise me the cost of the non-selected records" and they will send you a note telling you what it will cost for the rest of the records. The non-selected may or may not be of genealogical interest. However, in the ones I sent for I received some very enlightening medical information, as well as information on other family members. If this does not seem clear to you, it is like the Revolutionary War Pension records that you can borrow on interlibrary loan that show selected and non-selected. If you send to the National Archives for those records you receive the selected only. AGLL loans the Revolutionary War Pension records, so there is no need to bother the National Archives to get those, you can look at them yourself and also everyone else by that surname that is on the reel of microfilm...thus perhaps finding a sibling or cousins information. And save a "bunch of money." gayle1@kansas.net

    01/31/1998 02:14:56