GOPHER RECORDS

If you need records, we will gopher you.

Quick Service

Ordered 3 different Civil War Records and had them within a couple of days. Reasonable pricing!!!

Outstanding All the Way Around!

Absolutely pleased with the customer service, final product, and cost. Gopher sends you document copies that are true to the original – not the photocopies supplied by the Archives itself – and, best of all, for far less money. I HIGHLY recommend.

Quick, Reliable, Reasonable Service

Quick, Reliable, Reasonable Service I was told about Gopher Records by a fellow genealogist who sung their praises to the moon. The next day, I ordered pension file for my great-grandfather at a VERY reasonable price and SEVEN days later had the complete file (100 pages). Cannot recommend Gopher Records enough! Wonderful service.

Bond Descendant

I requested the information for my great great grandfather during his time serving in the US Civil War and that information was retrieved for me, lickety split! Thank you!

Incredible quality and communications

I have been sing Gopher Records for several months, often ordering many records at once sporadically. Bob Velke has done a tremendous job at making the ordering process easy to follow and even easier to track order status. Each order has returned quality, colorized imaging returned in the most timely fashion.

Amazing, very useful, will work with again!

After hearing horror stories about obtaining records from the NARA, I jumped on the chance to work with Bob and Gopher Records. It is so simple! I filled out the order form, super simple, and within a few weeks I was notified that records had been located and an invoice would be sent to me.

Civil War Soldier’s Bundle

My experience with Gopher Records was excellent from start to finish. I needed a bit of clarification before submitting my order and Bob Velke answered quickly. I placed my order and was impressed that my payment would not be required until the requested records were found. The records were located and sent immediately upon payment.

My New Go To For Record Retrieval

I have ordered Pension Records directly from the National Archives and it was extremely slow and expensive. I have tried another private record retrieval service and they were quicker (weeks rather than months) and less expensive than the National Archives. I recently found Gopher Records online and saw the service was very reasonably priced and

First experience with Gopher Records

I don’t know why it took me so long to try this service. I have had a Civil War veteran ancestor brick wall for some time, and knew that there was likely a pension record for my ancestor (as opposed to at least one other man of the same name) but hadn’t pursued getting a

How did I make it this far without GopherRecords?

I’ve been ordering information from NARA for decades. I’m used to waiting for months to find out whether they have anything beyond an index card, and then getting faded images that are next to impossible to read. I get it — the clerks are just doing a job. They don’t understand the passionate curiosity I