🤬 NO, A 492% PRICE HIKE! 🤬
Hello again from Reclaim The Records! We're interrupting your probable post-Thanksgiving stupor to bring you some important and time-sensitive records access news.
This is long, but important. Please read and retweet.
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Yes, that did say 492%. No, it's not a typo.
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uscis.gov/genealogy
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Basically, a pay-for-play skip-the-line special FOIA queue. Fun!
But.
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SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE DOLLLAAAAASSS
WHAT
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So, please read our latest e-mail newsletter, where we tell you all about it, in rather more detail! Here's the link:
mailchi.mp/reclaimthereco…
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recordsnotrevenue.com
(You should check that out, too.)
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Because OF COURSE.
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(Example: the A-Files of US immigrants who were born more than 100 years ago.)
But they're not.
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(Example: Alien Registration Forms [AR-2's] are on microfilm at NARA but are restricted.)
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Like a records repo man.
But they don't. So we all have to help them.
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Which means $625.
For a single, wonderful, important, historical paper file about your own family. 🥺
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Check this page out!
recordsnotrevenue.com/example-files/
Records of American immigrants from Germany, China, Italy, Czechia, Japan.
Records that would become too expensive for most laypeople.
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RECORDS, NOT REVENUE!
recordsnotrevenue.com
And most importantly, SEND IN YOUR COMMENTS BY DECEMBER 16 2019!
Directions and links are on the site. Even a snail mail address is provided, if a good old letter is more your thing.
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RECORDS, NOT REVENUE!
RECORDS, NOT REVENUE!
Thanks for listening.
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