Re: Getting Old Scouting REcords
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Wed, 6 Dec 1995 11:12:03 -0600
Tom Bennett wrote, asking if anyone else here had any experience with this:
>I had a CM ask me if I could help him get documents to support his
>Eagle Scout Rank that he earned while in Rota Spain as a Military
>Dependent. He was part of a Sea Post #12 (He thinks) and earned Eagle
>in about 1972 or 73.
Sure. Done it a lot. All he has to do is to send a letter with whatever
documentation (copies only) of where he was at, what year he earned Eagle
and what he did, and his name at the time of earning Eagle (I used Mike, not
"Micheal", for instance) to the Eagle Scout Service at the BSA's National
Office. They will do the rest.
"The rest" consists of looking in the master Eagle Scout Record (which is
written, not computerized...they are in the process of converting it, but
they are still keeping the written copies (a holdover from where they lost a
significant number of Eagle and other records from a fire in the National
Office
shortly after they moved in there) around; having the local Council (in this
case, the Transatlantic Council, BSA (the Council in which Rota is located in
during that time) to research their copies of the Advancement Reports; and
to have the Northeast (Northern) Region to do the same for the "national
copies".
If there's a Eagle Scout Application form somewhere, or an advancement
report with the Eagle rank and the name of the person on it, one or more of
those places will have it. Two places (Eagle Scout Service, Regional
Office, Local Council office) having the same information consitutes
"confirmation".
He will receive a form letter when he writes, but will get a real response and
Eagle Scout credentials (card and certificate) through his present local Council
for presentation to him (everything USED to be done between National and
individual; last year, the decision was made to do EVERYTHING between
National and Local Councils, with the local Council having "contact" with
the individual
involved).
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