I have not had the luxury of finding any information for myself, but I added my "2 cents" with the hopes that it helps someone else. That price hike is preposterous. I hope our combined emails will help hold the price down some. Stephanie ----- Original Message ----- From: varoots-request@rootsweb.com To: varoots@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 3:02 AM Subject: VAROOTS Digest, Vol 2, Issue 91 Today's Topics: 1. Last chance to respond to NARA increases (Kenny Hedgpeth) 2. Re: Last chance to respond to NARA increases (Emaress Nova) 3. Re: Last chance to respond to NARA increases (Kenny Hedgpeth) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:28:42 -0700 From: "Kenny Hedgpeth" <hdpth@earthlink.net> Subject: [VAROOTS] Last chance to respond to NARA increases To: "southamptonhistory" <southamptonhistory@yahoogroups.com>, "varoots-l" <varoots-l@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <380-22007432532842599@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Please send your comments in the next week to NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) about the huge price increases for copying documents that they are proposing. Briefly, they're jumping the cost of a copy of a Civil War pension application from $37 to $125. Other documents are increasing greatly also. For those of us who do genealogy, these prices are simply unconscionable. Truly, we are unpaid historians -- doing the work of historians of the future -- and this kind of price gouging by a branch of the federal government should not stand. *YOU CAN HELP to change this. There is a "public comment" time still available -- but only until April 27, 2007 -- which means you have less than a week to respond!* It's very easy to do. Here is the way the site works to submit your comments on line and to learn exactly what the proposal says: The following are step-by-step instructions for submitting your comments: 1. Go to www.regulations.gov <http://www.regulations.gov>. 2. Under "Search for," select "Documents Open for Public Comment." 3. Under "Agency," select "National Archives and Records Administration*." 4. Under "Document Type," select "All Document Types." 5. In the "Keyword or ID" field, type "NARA-07-0001-0001." 6. Select "Exact Phrase." 7. Click the "Submit" button. You can read the proposed rule by clicking the PDF icon in the "Views" column. You can add your comments by clicking the yellow balloon icon in the "Comments" column. Also, you can e-mail comments to your government representative at: http://www.house.gov/writerep/.] To view the 7 March 2007 Review announcement about the proposed NARA fee increase, visit: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/review/2007/0307.txt PLEASE, PLEASE WRITE TO THEM TODAY!!!!!! ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:25:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Emaress Nova <emaress_nova@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Last chance to respond to NARA increases To: hdpth@earthlink.net, varoots@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <713834.82955.qm@web32915.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I found my great grandfather's complete military records on microfilm in the public library - also his widow's pension application and his pension application and an application for a prosthesis for his smashed ankle from a wound sustained in the final days of the Civil War. My God provides my every need according to His riches in glory. Amen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:57:41 -0700 From: "Kenny Hedgpeth" <hdpth@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Last chance to respond to NARA increases To: "Emaress Nova" <emaress_nova@yahoo.com>, varoots@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <380-22007432545741295@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII congratulations to you ! but most usually won't be as lucky as you were "/ Ken - hdpth-DNA > [Original Message] > From: Emaress Nova <emaress_nova@yahoo.com> > To: <hdpth@earthlink.net>; <varoots@rootsweb.com> > Date: 4/24/2007 9:25:30 PM > Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Last chance to respond to NARA increases > > I found my great grandfather's complete military > records on microfilm in the public library - also > his widow's pension application and his pension > application and an application for a prosthesis > for his smashed ankle from a wound sustained in > the final days of the Civil War. > > > My God provides my every need according to His riches in glory. Amen > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ To contact the VAROOTS list administrator, send an email to VAROOTS-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the VAROOTS mailing list, send an email to VAROOTS@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of VAROOTS Digest, Vol 2, Issue 91 **************************************