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To: hmaly who wrote (184124)	3/4/2004 4:16:49 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573848

Ted Re...If you're going to make up excuses, try not being so lame! I have no idea, why you would think the natl guard would store unessential records. They take up space, cost money to store, and create information overload. All businesses store on disk, only the pertinent records for tax purposes, etc. Hell, my Quicken program automatically compresses information every once in awhile, and it is hard to reclaim a lot of it, if you don't know where to search. I don't run the natl guard, neither do you. However, if you ask politely, maybe they will let you do a search. Who cares. <font color=brown>Service records are intact for most nat. guard members going back at least to WW II if not much earlier. Bush's records are maintained in an archive in Colorado. Here's an example of a national guard archive in WI. Just remember that the records of service men are confidential. Therefore, Bush had to authorize their release. BTW the gaps are not due to the nat. guard not storing "unessential records" as your post suggests.<font color=black> wisconsinhistory.org Wisconsin National Guard Archives Search Strategies The Archives Computer Catalog ArCat provides the most comprehensive method for accessing information about Archival holdings. Consult ArCat to identify collections relevant to your research. If you are not familiar with this catalog, take a moment to review instructions included on the ArCat home page. For the pre-Civil War period, the most effective general search strategy is to enter the term Militia and then scan the date column on the right side of the screen for reference from the proper time period. For the post-Civil War period, basic search terms are Adjutant General or National Guard . Since state government reorganization in 1967, the adjutant general has headed the state's Department of Military Affairs and the most recent administrative records are found in ArCat under that term. Entering any of these terms will produce large results and most researchers will want to scan the date column on the right side of the screen to narrow the number of potentially relevant sources.