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Tracing Your Family's Roots May Soon Get A Lot More Expensive

Access to some genealogical records kept by the U.S. government may get a lot more expensive to obtain, especially for those seeking family records for immigrants from the late 1800s to mid 1900s.
Max Carl in 1918

December 30 is the deadline to submit a comment to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services over a proposed fee hike to access some genealogy files--and some of them date back over a hundred years.

The USCIS wants to increase the fee for obtaining immigration files by 500%, which means some people would have to pay more than $600 for the documents. The move would affect families of the millions of people who immigrated to the United States in the

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