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NARA will hate me for this but as much as they chew up our time I don't feel so bad. The back room phone number for the research room so to speak as I understand it is 202-357-5363. People who answer the phone there should be able to direct folks here on this site to available researchers for hire. As stated before it will not be until May before I can get the card for the lady I was talking about. Some of you may not want to wait that long which is understandable. I certainly would not pay anymore than $25.00 per hour for hired researchers and don't feel bad about asking them for references, experience etc. As with anything else there are some good ones and bad ones, some fast ones and some slow ones, some people who know what they are doing and people that don't. The lady whom I was referring to could have been as cheap as $15.00 an hour but not anymore than $25.00 hour and she dealt in WBTS research. I'll make a phone call myself in a couple of days and see if one of those hired researchers names rings a bell. It should if I heard it again. Try and find a hired researcher who does nothing but the WBTS. Having a short conversation with the hired researcher by phone will bear out if they know what they are talking about. Many folks on this board know the war hands down. I would try and stay away from hired researchers who do genealogy as they tend to be more expensive and don't know the war as well, although some might claim to. If they can't tell me who the Vice-President of the Confederacy was or what month and year the Battle of Chickamauga took place I would be skeptical of how well they claim to know the war. Please remember their clock starts ticking once they go to the learning aid room to pull the call numbers for the pull. For them having a general knowledge of the war may reduce your costs considerably.

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