GOPHER RECORDS

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Civil War Pension Record Request

I was referred to GOPHERRECORDS by a professional genealogist at the Allen County Library because she had had such a positive experience with their work. I too had the same experience. After submitting my request I received the records within a week. SO thrilled. Thank you, Gopher Records (Bob Velke). Will be using them again.

Highly Recommended!

What an amazing service and what amazing service!!! In less than 2 weeks, Gopher Records obtained and delivered invaluable 19th-century records that I had repeatedly but unsuccessfully tried to obtain on my own. Even though the information I provided about my ancestor’s pension claims was incomplete, Gopher Records was still able to get their hands

An indispensible tool in your research tookkit

Incredibly fast turnaround, less expensive than going directly to NARA, personalized (friendly, courteous and amazing) service. I should have been using Gopher long ago. I got a Civil War file about 2 years ago directly from NARA that took months. nothing against them–they are overwhelmed. It included two photos of marginal quality. People on Facebook

Request for Civil War Medical Records

To my good fortune, I stumbled on the Gopher Records website by happenstance. This site provides a concise and useful description of records that are available from the National Archives. I was not even aware that many of these records are actually available. More importantly, Gopher provides a relatively inexpensive record retrieval service that is

Records request

Quick response. The pension file was 139 pages. That’s a lot of work thank you.

Gopher is great!

I’ve had a great experience with Gopher Records. They are professional, efficient, communicative, and the fees are very reasonable. My documents were delivered in a timely fashion and it was easy to both order and download them from their site. I also appreciate them for accessing records that I physically can’t research since I don’t

Records Research

I have had Gopher research military/pension records for me several times. I am really pleased with their service. Their customer service is excellent. Their communication during the process is amazing. And their delivery time is first rate. I can’t recommend them enough. Keep up the good work!

Pension and service records for William Smith

My cousin and I decided to use Gopher Records to help us get the pension and service records for our 2X great-grandfather from the Civil War. The records were somewhat complicated as our grandfather served in three different units in the Union Army using three alias. In just over a week we had all of

Speedy Service

I was expecting it to take much longer to get the records back, but not only were they fast, but the quality of the scanned images was high. I would recommend this service to anyone!

George McColly Civil War Pension File

Deciding to order the Civil War Pension File, I went on the Natl Archives website to do so. I ran into difficulties filling out their form. With that difficulty, I went on Facebook Group Random Act of Genealogical Kindness and asked others if they had similar problems. Several suggested using Gopher Records to have them