NARA Reproduction Fee Change for Civil War Pension files
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NARA Reproduction Fee Change for Civil War Pension files
 bamasobby
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Posted: 2 Mar 2007 11:53PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: SONGER, CAMP, EVANS, ROSAMOND, IV(E)Y, MASSEY, BROOKS, FOUNTAIN, SMITH
This is the 2nd notice from other researchers. I did check out some of the proposed changes in price. In general the increases were as they should be. Read on about the pension records.
kemis
Re: The change from $37 to $125 reproduction fee for full Civil War pension
records; a 296% increase (36 CFR 1258 from the Federal Register, v. 72, no.
37, 2/26/07, p. 8327)
I¹ve just left my ³2 cents² at the regulations.gov website (must be done by April 27) and suggest that everyone else do so too. They¹ve just reversed what we get for our money....used to be we paid $37 for a file whether it
was 50 pages or 200 pages. A good deal if you had a file that was 200 pages (of the 10 files I¹ve ordered over the years, only 2 fit this category; the other 8 were under 50 pages). Now we will be paying the larger file cost when we may only get a 25 page file!
I told them that they should be charging a price per page not a flat fee...pay for what you get....comments?
Go to: http://www.regulations.gov
In the search box, type "NARA Reproduction Fees." The Proposed Rules and the Rules will come up.
You can click on the text to read them.
Then click on the yellow emblem by the first line - Proposed Rules - and fill out your name, zip code, etc.,
and make your comment.
BTW, I¹ve also sent e-mails to all my Senators & House Reps...it¹s easy to do:
The House of Representatives websites with e-mail contacts are listed at:
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml#co
The Senate website with e-mail contact are listed at:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_c...
Also: Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (www.eogn.com) has lots of interesting comments about this topic.
kemis
Re: The change from $37 to $125 reproduction fee for full Civil War pension
records; a 296% increase (36 CFR 1258 from the Federal Register, v. 72, no.
37, 2/26/07, p. 8327)
I¹ve just left my ³2 cents² at the regulations.gov website (must be done by April 27) and suggest that everyone else do so too. They¹ve just reversed what we get for our money....used to be we paid $37 for a file whether it
was 50 pages or 200 pages. A good deal if you had a file that was 200 pages (of the 10 files I¹ve ordered over the years, only 2 fit this category; the other 8 were under 50 pages). Now we will be paying the larger file cost when we may only get a 25 page file!
I told them that they should be charging a price per page not a flat fee...pay for what you get....comments?
Go to: http://www.regulations.gov
In the search box, type "NARA Reproduction Fees." The Proposed Rules and the Rules will come up.
You can click on the text to read them.
Then click on the yellow emblem by the first line - Proposed Rules - and fill out your name, zip code, etc.,
and make your comment.
BTW, I¹ve also sent e-mails to all my Senators & House Reps...it¹s easy to do:
The House of Representatives websites with e-mail contacts are listed at:
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml#co
The Senate website with e-mail contact are listed at:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_c...
Also: Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (www.eogn.com) has lots of interesting comments about this topic.