GOPHER RECORDS

If you need records, we will gopher you.

What payment methods do you accept?

When your order is ready to be delivered, you will receive an email directing you to view your invoice in PayPal but you can opt instead to use Venmo, a debit card, or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express). When you click on the Pay button, you’ll be prompted to log in to

Do I need a PayPal account?

No.  When your order is ready for delivery, you will receive an email directing you to view your invoice in PayPal. When you click on the Pay button, you’ll be prompted to log in to PayPal but simply scroll down and you’ll see an option to “Pay with Debit or Credit Card.”

What is the “Innovation Hub”?

The Innovation Hub is a project at the National Archives (NARA) in Washington D.C. that is designed to supplement its digital collection.  Researchers who visit the facility in person can use the scanners of the Innovation Hub to scan records from the NARA holdings and get digital copies of those scans for their personal use.

What is the estimated delivery date?

When circumstances allow us to provide a reasonable estimate of the delivery date for your order, then that date will be shown in the top-right of the order form. Such a date reflects our best estimate of the date by which new orders will be delivered if the records in question are stored at the

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FREE Records Assessment

If you wonder whether any military records exist at the National Archives for a specific soldier, then let us help. We are happy to conduct a free records assessment for your soldier.  We will check many record indexes, including some that you may not have considered.  We will also make use of in-house databases and

Online Confederate Records

Records about Confederate soldiers are certainly less prevalent than those for their Union counterparts.  But many more Confederate records exist than are widely known – and many of those records are online.  In some cases where access to these records requires a subscription, they are available elsewhere for free. Here we offer a chart showing

Prices

The chart below compares the prices of the most popular record groups* with those of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).  Not only are our prices much lower but delivery time is typically much shorter. Also note that if you request a pension file that is more than 100 pages long, NARA will deliver the first

Federal Land Records

Applies to: Revolutionary War War of 1812 Mexican War Early Indian Wars Starting in 1776, the Continental Congress offered tracts of land (or “bounty land“) to encourage and reward veterans of the Revolutionary War.  The granted land was principally in military districts that are now in the State of Ohio and some western states and

How to Research Your Civil War Ancestor

The American Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865 and the average soldier was 18-45 years old. So if you have a white, male ancestor who was born between roughly 1816 and 1847 and lived in the United States in the early 1860s, then he probably played some part in the Civil War.