http://www.rrb.gov/mep/genealogy.asp
Genealogy Research
Effective October 1, 2010, many requests for genealogical information concerning railroad workers will be handled by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) rather than the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB). However, some requests will continue to be handled by the RRB. Genealogists and family historians should still initially contact the RRB with their requests. We will determine whether the RRB or NARA has the information requested.
Genealogists should note the following:
The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board administers a Federal retirement benefit program covering the nation's railroad workers. The records we maintain deal primarily with the administration and payment of these benefits. We will provide information on deceased persons for the purpose of genealogical research. However, we will not release information on a person who is still living without the written consent of that person.
Our records are limited to individuals who worked in the rail industry after 1936. Please do not contact us with requests for records before that date. We do not have that information. Nor do we generally have any pertinent records of persons whose rail service was performed on a casual basis and/or was of short duration. Also, the RRB's records are only on persons whose employers were covered under the Railroad Retirement Act. Employers such as streetcar, interurban, or suburban electric railways are not covered under this Act.
Fee The fee for searching our records is currently $27 for each employee on whom records are requested. Your check or money order should be made payable to the Railroad Retirement Board. The fee is payable before any search is attempted. If we determine that NARA has custody of the requested records, you will be informed of that and your inquiry and payment will be returned to you with information on how to contact NARA. However, the fee is not refundable if, after a search is conducted, we determine that no records exist.
What We Need The RRB's records are kept by the railroad employee's social security number (SSN), which often appears on a death certificate. In some cases, if that number is not available, having the employee's full name, including middle name or initial, and complete dates of birth and death may be of some help in determining whether we have any records of that person. However, in dealing with relatively common surnames, it is usually not possible to make a positive identification without the employee's SSN. Where to Send RequestsRequests for genealogical information and accompanying checks should be sent to:
U.S. Railroad Retirement Board
Congressional Inquiry Section
844 North Rush Street
Chicago, Illinois 60611-2092
Generally, the RRB requires at least 30-60 days to reply to genealogical inquiries.
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=897
Along Those Lines"
4/9/1999 - Archive
Railroad Retirement Board Records
Social Security records, as you probably know, can provide a great deal of information for genealogists. The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) can help you locate people who collected Social Security benefits and who are deceased. Armed with their Social Security number, you can write to the Social Security Administration for a copy of the individual's SS-5 form, the application for a Social Security number, which can contain parents' names, addresses, birth date and other details you may not have been able to locate elsewhere.
But what if you had a family member who worked for the railroad? Where would you find similar information about these individuals? The answer is at the Railroad Retirement Board. This week in "Along Those Lines . . . ," let's look at the records at the Railroad Retirement Board.
What is the Railroad Retirement Board?
The Social Security Act of 1935 established an old-age insurance system in the United States. Its intent was to provide a means for individuals to plan for some financial security for their old age. A unique identification number was to be assigned to all persons who completed an application for participation in the program. The first three digits of the Social Security number (SSN) (with a few exceptions) are an area number which, until 1972, reflected the state in which the application for a SSN was made.
At the same time, the Railroad Retirement Act made provisions to maintain a separate program for employees of the nation's railroads, and a separate block of numbers (700-728) were set aside for assignment to these employees. The Railroad Retirement Board therefore is the administrator of a federal retirement program covering the nation's railroad employees, those who were employed by railroads in 1937 and later.
Some people may have worked for the railroad and for other industries. They may have two numbers—one for participation in Social Security and one for Railroad Retirement—and may have collected multiple benefits.
What Records Are Availabe?
The Railroad Retirement Board will release information on deceased persons for genealogical research. However, it will not release any information for living individuals without that person's written consent. If you are interested in information about railroaders among your ancestors, files for railroad employees are found only at the headquarters office of the Railroad Retirement Board. Among the records that may be included for an employee are:
- Application for participation in Railroad Retirement
- Statement(s) of railroad service
- Application for employee annuity
- Description and certification of eligibility
- Record of service for which no records are available
- Certificate of termination of service
- Death certificate of employee
- Notice of Death and Statement of Compensation
In the late 1960s, the Railroad Retirement Board approved a policy allowing for the destruction of records thirty (30) years after the last payment was made to the claimant or to the last beneficiary. This policy was made in accordance with the federal government's federal records retention schedule policy, and was not a decision made arbitrarily by the Railroad Retirement Board. Genealogists, however, objected strenuously and the policy was put on hold. Some records were destroyed, however, and no microfilming of records was ever undertaken prior to destruction.
How Do I Obtain Copies of These Records?
The Railroad Retirement Board will perform searches for employee records for genealogical purposes. Remember that the employee must be deceased. There is a $16 nonrefundable fee to search for records, payable in advance. A check or money order should be made payable to the Railroad Retirement Board, and mailed to:
U.S. Railroad Retirement Board
Office of Public Affairs
844 N. Rush Street
Chicago, IL 60611-2092
Since records are kept by the employee's unique number, this is the best way to request information. You may find the Social Security or Railroad Retirement number on the person's death certificate. In order for the Railroad Retirement Board to perform its search, please provide the Railroad Retirement number (the one beginning with 700 to 726) and the person's full name. In some cases, it may be possible to locate records using only the full name, address, and birth and death dates of the person. However, it is usually not possible to locate records for people with relatively common surnames unless a number is included.
All Aboard!
You may learn more about your ancestor and his/her employment history through this route than you might otherwise have been able to ferret out on your own. Remember that the various railroads' records are scattered throughout various archives and repositories, and that many have been lost or destroyed. In these cases, the Railroad Retirement Board's records may be the only viable place to gather more information about your railroader.
For more information about the Railroad Retirement Board, please be sure to visit their Web site at: http://www.rrb.gov/.
Here you will find details about the office, and a special link on the mail screen labeled "Genealogical Inquiries" will provide details about the office. In addition, there is a link to "Genealogical Research Before 1936" at: http://www.rrb.gov/geneal2.html.
Here you will find a partial list of depositories with railroad records. It's not complete, but it's a sure start.
Happy hunting!
George
Copyright 1999 George G. Morgan. All Rights reserved. "Along Those Lines . . ." is a weekly feature of the Genealogy Forum on America Online (Keyword: ROOTS).
The article originally appeared in the Genealogy Forum on America Online. You may send e-mail to [email protected]. George Morgan would like to hear from you but, because of the volume of E-mail, is unable to personally respond to each letter individually. He also regrets that he cannot assist you with your personal genealogical research.
George is also the author of The Genealogy Forum on America Online. Learn how to use one of the world’s most important and respected online genealogical resources. George Morgan’s Users Guide will help beginning to advanced genealogists utilize all the Forum has to offer! http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog/
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the Railroad Genealogical Society.
http://www.rrgs.org/index.html
Railroads played a huge role in American history. This was even truer in the settlement of the west, where entire communities were established as "railroad towns". In some of these, nearly every family was engaged in some aspect of railroading, or in supplying the families who were.
As lasting as the impression of the railroads has been, however, one crucial portion of the legacy has been fading from site. The stories of the men and women who built and ran the mighty iron roads have been all but forgotten. Records have been casually shredded during mergers, stored away unavailable to the descendants, allowed to languish in storehouses until illegible, or buried with the men and women themselves. To the founders of this Society, this was simply appalling.
And so the work began. The Railroad Genealogical Society was established and dedicated to the task of locating, compiling and preserving every record pertaining to the employees of America's historic railroads.
One of the earliest railways to be built in the interior of the United States was the Illinois Central Railroad, which was formed in February, 1851, by the General Assembly of Illinois. Two and a half million acres of public land had been granted to the State by Congress in 1850 for the construction of a railroad from the southern terminus of the Illinois and Michigan Canal to a point near the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, with a branch to Chicago and another to Dubuque, Iowa. The Illinois Central was, therefore, the first of the land grant railroads, and the system was subsequently adopted by other lines, notably the Union and Central Pacific Companies.
The Illinois Central now operates over 6,850 miles of track, of which 155 miles have been electrified. There are over 1,750 locomotives, nearly 1,900 passenger cars, and about 62,500 freight cars.
National Railway Historical Society - NRHS -
http://www.nrhs.com/library.htm#genes
NRHS Library - General Information The NRHS library holdings are presently in retrievable storage in Massachusetts. The facility in Philadelphia which housed the library is under renovation for another use and the NRHS was forced to vacate the premises. The references in the library are available for access but the fees to access the holdings are significant. Contact us by using our e-mail form for further information.
Contents of this section.
The primary focus of the NRHS Library is North American railways, with a small collection of selected publications on the railways of other countries. Collections of most items are not complete. Most items are in the process of being catalogued. The NRHS Library's overall collection includes, but is not limited, to the information listed in the next section.
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Contents of the Library
Library Hours, General Services, and Railway History Research Requests
Genealogical Research Genealogical research is not available while the library holdings are in storage. After the library resumes operations, the library will povide what assistance it can.
If you are searching for specific information on an ancestor who was a railroad employee, we must disappoint you. We do not, nor did we ever, have ex-railroad employee records in the collection of our research library. Additionally, we are not aware of another research facility which might have such records in its collection.
Following is how we may be able to assist you in your research, if you so wish:
(a) If you know the name of the railroad(s) your ancestor worked for, we will probably be able to provide you with a capsule history of that railroad.
(b) If you know only that your ancestor worked for a railroad in a specific state or city, we will attempt to find a listing of the railroad(s) which served that area. And then, upon your request, we will perform research on the corporate and/or operational history of the particular railroad(s), as in item (a) above.
(c) If you know what job(s) your ancestor performed for the railroad(s), we will supply you with a general description of what that job entailed. Again, not specific to the particular person in question, but the job duties in very general terms.
If your ancestor worked for a railroad after 1936, it is possible that the Railroad Retirement Board (the railroad workers' equivalent of the Social Security Administration) might have an entry for your ancestor in their database. You may contact that agency through their Office of Public Affairs at 844 N. Rush St., Chicago, Ill. 60611-2092. Be advised that there will be fees charged by this agency.
If your ancestor happened to be injured or die in an accident while performing his or her railroad job duties, it is extremely doubtful that we will be able to provide detailed information on such accident. The accident investigation reports in our collection are summaries of state or federal agency investigations of major passenger or freight train accidents (head-on collisions, derailments, explosions, fires, etc.); additionally, we do not have a complete collection of these reports. Individual worker's accidents are not detailed in any report in our collection. Please be advised that railroad work was, and in some ways still is today, a very dangerous job. Such incidents for railroad workers (loss of limbs and other injuries, and deaths) were all too frequent occurrences in railroad history, and documentation of such incidents by the railroads do not survive in any collection we are aware of. Perhaps you might find a mention of such specific incidents in the local newspaper(s) for that time period; we suggest you also inquire with a local, county or state historical society.
Another resource which came about in 2002 is the Railroad Genealogical Society.
Also, the Northern Pacific/Great Northern Railway records held by the Minnesota Historical Society in Saint Paul, MN contain vast files on their employees as well as accident/settlement information specific to individuals both employee and passenger.
Now, we have a request of you: if you had received a recommendation from an individual, magazine, library or other organization that the National Railway Historical Society would be able to assist you with specific information on your ancestor, would you please share the above with them for their future information?
Thank you for your understanding in this matter.
NRHS
Genealogy Research
Effective October 1, 2010, many requests for genealogical information concerning railroad workers will be handled by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) rather than the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB). However, some requests will continue to be handled by the RRB. Genealogists and family historians should still initially contact the RRB with their requests. We will determine whether the RRB or NARA has the information requested.
Genealogists should note the following:
The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board administers a Federal retirement benefit program covering the nation's railroad workers. The records we maintain deal primarily with the administration and payment of these benefits. We will provide information on deceased persons for the purpose of genealogical research. However, we will not release information on a person who is still living without the written consent of that person.
Our records are limited to individuals who worked in the rail industry after 1936. Please do not contact us with requests for records before that date. We do not have that information. Nor do we generally have any pertinent records of persons whose rail service was performed on a casual basis and/or was of short duration. Also, the RRB's records are only on persons whose employers were covered under the Railroad Retirement Act. Employers such as streetcar, interurban, or suburban electric railways are not covered under this Act.
Fee The fee for searching our records is currently $27 for each employee on whom records are requested. Your check or money order should be made payable to the Railroad Retirement Board. The fee is payable before any search is attempted. If we determine that NARA has custody of the requested records, you will be informed of that and your inquiry and payment will be returned to you with information on how to contact NARA. However, the fee is not refundable if, after a search is conducted, we determine that no records exist.
What We Need The RRB's records are kept by the railroad employee's social security number (SSN), which often appears on a death certificate. In some cases, if that number is not available, having the employee's full name, including middle name or initial, and complete dates of birth and death may be of some help in determining whether we have any records of that person. However, in dealing with relatively common surnames, it is usually not possible to make a positive identification without the employee's SSN. Where to Send RequestsRequests for genealogical information and accompanying checks should be sent to:
U.S. Railroad Retirement Board
Congressional Inquiry Section
844 North Rush Street
Chicago, Illinois 60611-2092
Generally, the RRB requires at least 30-60 days to reply to genealogical inquiries.
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=897
Along Those Lines"
4/9/1999 - Archive
Railroad Retirement Board Records
Social Security records, as you probably know, can provide a great deal of information for genealogists. The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) can help you locate people who collected Social Security benefits and who are deceased. Armed with their Social Security number, you can write to the Social Security Administration for a copy of the individual's SS-5 form, the application for a Social Security number, which can contain parents' names, addresses, birth date and other details you may not have been able to locate elsewhere.
But what if you had a family member who worked for the railroad? Where would you find similar information about these individuals? The answer is at the Railroad Retirement Board. This week in "Along Those Lines . . . ," let's look at the records at the Railroad Retirement Board.
What is the Railroad Retirement Board?
The Social Security Act of 1935 established an old-age insurance system in the United States. Its intent was to provide a means for individuals to plan for some financial security for their old age. A unique identification number was to be assigned to all persons who completed an application for participation in the program. The first three digits of the Social Security number (SSN) (with a few exceptions) are an area number which, until 1972, reflected the state in which the application for a SSN was made.
At the same time, the Railroad Retirement Act made provisions to maintain a separate program for employees of the nation's railroads, and a separate block of numbers (700-728) were set aside for assignment to these employees. The Railroad Retirement Board therefore is the administrator of a federal retirement program covering the nation's railroad employees, those who were employed by railroads in 1937 and later.
Some people may have worked for the railroad and for other industries. They may have two numbers—one for participation in Social Security and one for Railroad Retirement—and may have collected multiple benefits.
What Records Are Availabe?
The Railroad Retirement Board will release information on deceased persons for genealogical research. However, it will not release any information for living individuals without that person's written consent. If you are interested in information about railroaders among your ancestors, files for railroad employees are found only at the headquarters office of the Railroad Retirement Board. Among the records that may be included for an employee are:
- Application for participation in Railroad Retirement
- Statement(s) of railroad service
- Application for employee annuity
- Description and certification of eligibility
- Record of service for which no records are available
- Certificate of termination of service
- Death certificate of employee
- Notice of Death and Statement of Compensation
In the late 1960s, the Railroad Retirement Board approved a policy allowing for the destruction of records thirty (30) years after the last payment was made to the claimant or to the last beneficiary. This policy was made in accordance with the federal government's federal records retention schedule policy, and was not a decision made arbitrarily by the Railroad Retirement Board. Genealogists, however, objected strenuously and the policy was put on hold. Some records were destroyed, however, and no microfilming of records was ever undertaken prior to destruction.
How Do I Obtain Copies of These Records?
The Railroad Retirement Board will perform searches for employee records for genealogical purposes. Remember that the employee must be deceased. There is a $16 nonrefundable fee to search for records, payable in advance. A check or money order should be made payable to the Railroad Retirement Board, and mailed to:
U.S. Railroad Retirement Board
Office of Public Affairs
844 N. Rush Street
Chicago, IL 60611-2092
Since records are kept by the employee's unique number, this is the best way to request information. You may find the Social Security or Railroad Retirement number on the person's death certificate. In order for the Railroad Retirement Board to perform its search, please provide the Railroad Retirement number (the one beginning with 700 to 726) and the person's full name. In some cases, it may be possible to locate records using only the full name, address, and birth and death dates of the person. However, it is usually not possible to locate records for people with relatively common surnames unless a number is included.
All Aboard!
You may learn more about your ancestor and his/her employment history through this route than you might otherwise have been able to ferret out on your own. Remember that the various railroads' records are scattered throughout various archives and repositories, and that many have been lost or destroyed. In these cases, the Railroad Retirement Board's records may be the only viable place to gather more information about your railroader.
For more information about the Railroad Retirement Board, please be sure to visit their Web site at: http://www.rrb.gov/.
Here you will find details about the office, and a special link on the mail screen labeled "Genealogical Inquiries" will provide details about the office. In addition, there is a link to "Genealogical Research Before 1936" at: http://www.rrb.gov/geneal2.html.
Here you will find a partial list of depositories with railroad records. It's not complete, but it's a sure start.
Happy hunting!
George
Copyright 1999 George G. Morgan. All Rights reserved. "Along Those Lines . . ." is a weekly feature of the Genealogy Forum on America Online (Keyword: ROOTS).
The article originally appeared in the Genealogy Forum on America Online. You may send e-mail to [email protected]. George Morgan would like to hear from you but, because of the volume of E-mail, is unable to personally respond to each letter individually. He also regrets that he cannot assist you with your personal genealogical research.
George is also the author of The Genealogy Forum on America Online. Learn how to use one of the world’s most important and respected online genealogical resources. George Morgan’s Users Guide will help beginning to advanced genealogists utilize all the Forum has to offer! http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog/
product.asp?pf%5Fid=1101046&dept%5Fid=10102000
the Railroad Genealogical Society.
http://www.rrgs.org/index.html
Railroads played a huge role in American history. This was even truer in the settlement of the west, where entire communities were established as "railroad towns". In some of these, nearly every family was engaged in some aspect of railroading, or in supplying the families who were.
As lasting as the impression of the railroads has been, however, one crucial portion of the legacy has been fading from site. The stories of the men and women who built and ran the mighty iron roads have been all but forgotten. Records have been casually shredded during mergers, stored away unavailable to the descendants, allowed to languish in storehouses until illegible, or buried with the men and women themselves. To the founders of this Society, this was simply appalling.
And so the work began. The Railroad Genealogical Society was established and dedicated to the task of locating, compiling and preserving every record pertaining to the employees of America's historic railroads.
One of the earliest railways to be built in the interior of the United States was the Illinois Central Railroad, which was formed in February, 1851, by the General Assembly of Illinois. Two and a half million acres of public land had been granted to the State by Congress in 1850 for the construction of a railroad from the southern terminus of the Illinois and Michigan Canal to a point near the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, with a branch to Chicago and another to Dubuque, Iowa. The Illinois Central was, therefore, the first of the land grant railroads, and the system was subsequently adopted by other lines, notably the Union and Central Pacific Companies.
The Illinois Central now operates over 6,850 miles of track, of which 155 miles have been electrified. There are over 1,750 locomotives, nearly 1,900 passenger cars, and about 62,500 freight cars.
National Railway Historical Society - NRHS -
http://www.nrhs.com/library.htm#genes
NRHS Library - General Information The NRHS library holdings are presently in retrievable storage in Massachusetts. The facility in Philadelphia which housed the library is under renovation for another use and the NRHS was forced to vacate the premises. The references in the library are available for access but the fees to access the holdings are significant. Contact us by using our e-mail form for further information.
Contents of this section.
- About the Library
- Contents of the Library
- Library Hours and General Services Information
- How to submit an Railway History Question/Research Application
- Genealogical Research Information
- Film, Video, and Slide Library
The primary focus of the NRHS Library is North American railways, with a small collection of selected publications on the railways of other countries. Collections of most items are not complete. Most items are in the process of being catalogued. The NRHS Library's overall collection includes, but is not limited, to the information listed in the next section.
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- Over 4,000 general and academic books on various railway subjects
- A complete archival set of the National Railway Bulletin
- NRHS chapters' newsletters, and other railway historical societies' newsletters/periodicals
- Public timetables, and railway employee timetables and rule books
- Employee magazines of railways, locomotive builders and car builders
- Annual reports of railways
- Postcards of rail-related subjects
- Over thirty-five various railway-related periodicals, including a completeset of Trains, Railroad/Railroad & Railfan from 1937 to present,and Railway Age from 1930 to present
- Official Guide of the Railways from the late 1800s to present (not all issues)
- Poor's Manual of Railroads
- Pocket List of Railroad Officials
- Car Builders Cyclopedias and Locomotive Cyclopedias
- ICC Valuation Dockets from the 1920s (not complete); these are not valuation maps but a narrative compilation of physical assets to define a value for ratemaking purposes. We also have various other reports/publications from this agency
- Accident investigation reports
- Publications from the Association of American Railroads
- USGS topographical maps (limited areas) and other rail-related maps
- Stock and bond certificates
- Railway-issued data such as track charts, profiles and signaling diagrams
- Various other technical and mechanical reports/publications about railways, locomotives, cars and suppliers
Library Hours, General Services, and Railway History Research Requests
- While holdings are in storage, the library has limited hours and resources. Only basic research is possible unless the request commits the person to substantial fees. The library has limited holdings available in the national office to address simple requests.
- The NRHS Library's collection does not circulate; materials must be used in the library. Photocopies may be made for most items.
- Research may be conducted via mail, telephone or e-mail.
- At this time the library is closed to visitors.
- When submitting a railway history research request in writing, include your name, mailing address and daytime telephone number, as well as e-mail address if any.
- To submit a research request electronically, use our e-mail form - make sure you choose a subject of Railway History Research Question. You must use this form for electronic research requests. No e-mail please!
- There is no fee for our research services if NRHS does not have to retrieve sources from storage. If a request for research involves retrieving the sources in storage, the NRHS will only undertake such a research request when the person requesting the information makes a pre-approved advance payment. Research requests which the staff can fulfill from the limited resources in the national office will continue without a fee. NRHS respectfully requests consideration of a monetary donation for this service to the public.
Genealogical Research Genealogical research is not available while the library holdings are in storage. After the library resumes operations, the library will povide what assistance it can.
If you are searching for specific information on an ancestor who was a railroad employee, we must disappoint you. We do not, nor did we ever, have ex-railroad employee records in the collection of our research library. Additionally, we are not aware of another research facility which might have such records in its collection.
Following is how we may be able to assist you in your research, if you so wish:
(a) If you know the name of the railroad(s) your ancestor worked for, we will probably be able to provide you with a capsule history of that railroad.
(b) If you know only that your ancestor worked for a railroad in a specific state or city, we will attempt to find a listing of the railroad(s) which served that area. And then, upon your request, we will perform research on the corporate and/or operational history of the particular railroad(s), as in item (a) above.
(c) If you know what job(s) your ancestor performed for the railroad(s), we will supply you with a general description of what that job entailed. Again, not specific to the particular person in question, but the job duties in very general terms.
If your ancestor worked for a railroad after 1936, it is possible that the Railroad Retirement Board (the railroad workers' equivalent of the Social Security Administration) might have an entry for your ancestor in their database. You may contact that agency through their Office of Public Affairs at 844 N. Rush St., Chicago, Ill. 60611-2092. Be advised that there will be fees charged by this agency.
If your ancestor happened to be injured or die in an accident while performing his or her railroad job duties, it is extremely doubtful that we will be able to provide detailed information on such accident. The accident investigation reports in our collection are summaries of state or federal agency investigations of major passenger or freight train accidents (head-on collisions, derailments, explosions, fires, etc.); additionally, we do not have a complete collection of these reports. Individual worker's accidents are not detailed in any report in our collection. Please be advised that railroad work was, and in some ways still is today, a very dangerous job. Such incidents for railroad workers (loss of limbs and other injuries, and deaths) were all too frequent occurrences in railroad history, and documentation of such incidents by the railroads do not survive in any collection we are aware of. Perhaps you might find a mention of such specific incidents in the local newspaper(s) for that time period; we suggest you also inquire with a local, county or state historical society.
Another resource which came about in 2002 is the Railroad Genealogical Society.
Also, the Northern Pacific/Great Northern Railway records held by the Minnesota Historical Society in Saint Paul, MN contain vast files on their employees as well as accident/settlement information specific to individuals both employee and passenger.
Now, we have a request of you: if you had received a recommendation from an individual, magazine, library or other organization that the National Railway Historical Society would be able to assist you with specific information on your ancestor, would you please share the above with them for their future information?
Thank you for your understanding in this matter.
NRHS