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- Notice about how to access State Department Records that have been withdrawn during declassification review.
-
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
