Recent Issues of NARA Newsletters
- The Buzz: The National Archives' Newsletter about Online Access
- Researcher News, for researchers in the Washington, DC, area
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Highlights
The National Archives and Footnote.com are working as partners to bring unprecedented access to selections of the vast holdings of the National Archives. Visit us and access these documents free of charge.
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Now you can search for microfilm online.
Get a full description, download descriptive pamphlets and roll lists, and/or purchase rolls.
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The 9-11 Commission's records are now available on the
Commission's frozen web site.
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In light of the terrorist events of September 11, 2001, we are re-evaluating access to some previously open
archival materials.
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What's New for Researchers
New Research Pages Online
- The Buzz: The National Archives' Newsletter about Online Access
- Finding Information on Personal Participation in World War II
- Researching WWII Japanese American Internment and Relocation Records
- Selected World War I Draft Registration Cards: Famous, Infamous, and Interesting
- Freedmen's Bureau Records, 1865-72
- Civil Rights Resources
- Japanese War Crimes: Resources for Researchers
- Tuskegee Patient Medical Files
- Cold War Symposium, with keynote address by Harlan Cleveland
- Name Index to Inmate Case Files, Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, 1902-1921
- Records Relating to World War II Era Refugees
- Records of Military Agencies Relating
to African Americans from the Post-World War I Period
to the Korean War
- Researcher Newsletter, for researchers in the Washington, DC, area
- Online exhibit of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
- Name Index to Inmate Case Files, Leavenworth Penitentiary, 1895 - 1931
- The von Trapp Family in Federal Records
- New Accessions and Openings of Records
- "Deep Throat" Research Guide
- Supreme Court during the Nixon Administration
Microfilm can now be searched and ordered online
Copies of Records can be ordered online for:
- Federal military pension applications files for military service from the American Revolution up to before World War I.
- Individual pages of Federal population census schedules, 1790-1930.
- Land entry files (such as credit, cash, homestead, and mineral) or surrendered military bounty-land warrants files (Acts of 1788, 1812, 1847, 1850, and 1855).
- Bounty-land warrant application files for Federal military service before 1856.
- Ship passenger arrival records, 1820-1959.
- Eastern Cherokee application records, 1906-1909.
- Compiled military service records for regular forces up to before World War I.
Use the Access to Archival Databases (AAD) system to search some of NARA's electronic records holdings.
Notices
- Notice about how to access State Department Records that have been withdrawn during declassification review.
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Microfilm price increase, effective October 1, 2005.
- New debit card system for making copies in the
National Archives facilities in the Washington, DC area
to become
operational in early September, 2005.
- Month-long evaluation of
document security procedures in the Textual Research Room in College Park, MD, during the month of
July, 2005.
- A portion of customhouse records for ports
in Louisiana and Texas to be transferred to NARA's regional facility in Fort Worth in June and July, 2005
- Change in Parking and Access
Procedures in College Park
- New Orientation Procedures for New Researchers to the
National Archives in Washington, D.C. and in College Park, MD
- Records of Concern
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