NA to Open Additional Records Relating to Judge John Roberts-38,546 pages

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http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/findaid/robertsj.htm

National Archives to Open Additional Records Relating to Judge John Roberts

WHAT: 38,546 pages of presidential records from the Staff Member Office Files of John Roberts, will be opened. 1,708 pages have been withheld from these files under FOIA exemptions. This is the second opening of Roberts’ records in response to requests since the nomination of Judge Roberts to the Supreme Court. Judge Roberts was an Associate Counsel to the President during the Reagan Administration. The total number of pages regarding John Roberts available for research at the Reagan library will be 51,285.

WHERE: These records will be available simultaneously at two locations:

National Archives Building, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley, CA

To accommodate the anticipated demand, the research room at the National Archives in Washington, DC will remain open on Thursday until 9:00 PM. Scanners and laptops may be used. Clean research room rules will apply. Given space limitations in Washington, DC teams are limited to three people per media outlet/organization. All researchers must have a current photo ID. In Washington DC, given that only copies of the documents will be available, NARA researcher IDs are not necessary.

WHEN: This group of Roberts’ records from the Reagan Library will open to the public at 11:00 AM EST/8:00 AM PST on Thursday, August 18, 2005.

A preliminary inventory of these materials is available online

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2005/nr05-102.html

[HockeyMom]

1. Genealogy

The National Achieves is really amazing. About twenty years ago I requested my husband's great-great grandfather's Civil War records. I just sent in a nominal amount (had all the ID numbers) and was stunned to get a back an entire manila envelope containing about 20 pages of original handwritten xerox copies on an obscure serviceman.

Then when you ask for information on something from 10 years ago they say they can't find it? ROFL