Archival Research Catalog (ARC)

Search Hints for the Pacific Region
(Laguna Niguel)


Lt. [Theodore Gordon] Ellyson, Naval Aviator No. 1. (ARC ID 295604)

The National Archives (NARA) Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel) in Laguna Niguel, California, is part of one of the National Archives' 11 Regional Archives. The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) includes descriptions of records held by the Regional Archives. The online catalog allows you to filter your search results by location. The search hints below highlight the Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel) records available in ARC. The Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel) holds federal records from Arizona, southern California, and Clark County, Nevada.

ARC is a work in progress, and NARA staff add new descriptions to ARC all the time. More than 68% of the Regional Archives records are currently described in ARC at the series level. If you do not find the records you are seeking, please contact the Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel) staff.

Featured Topics

The featured topics are a sample of subjects covered by records held by the Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel) and described in ARC. Follow the search instructions, or customize your search with your own keywords.

  1. Go to http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/.
  2. Press the yellow Search button to go to the Basic search screen.
  3. Enter keywords (use some of the sample keywords below or your own) in the Keywords box.
  4. Select the limit results radio button for 2000.
  5. (Optional step:) Select the box marked Descriptions of Archival Materials linked to digital copies to retrieve digitized documents and photographs.
  6. Select the Location filter for NARA's Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel) .
  7. Press the Go button.
  8. When hits are returned for your search, view the full result of your hit by selecting the Title link.

Topics Sample ARC Keyword Searches Sample Digitized Documents
American Indians
  • Indian Affairs
  • Mission
  • Navajo
  • Apache
  • Havasupai
  • Hualapai
  • Pueblo
  • Indian Affairs and (School or Schools or Student or Students)
  • Indian Affairs and Phoenix

[Navajo students learning penmanship in day school.] (ARC ID 295150)
Army
  • Army
  • Army and Engineers

... An uncompleted portion of right spillway channel wall (ARC ID 295307)
Aviation
  • Aviation or Aviator
  • Aircraft or Airplane
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • {XS-1}
  • High Speed Flight

XS-1 in Flight, ca. 1947 (ARC ID 295649)
Bankruptcy Bankruptcy  
Court Cases
  • Mendez et al. v. Westminster School District
  • U.S. v. Forest S. Jones and William H. Stoneham
  • United States v. Jonathan Tibbitts
  • United States v. Bill Whaley
  • U.S. and Rivera and Sanchez

Articles of Food Inside Sanchez-Rivera Wagon, ca. 1921 (ARC ID 294980)
Courts
  • Court and California
  • Court and Arizona
  • Court and Nevada
  • Civil Law or Civil Case or Civil Dockets
  • Criminal Case or Criminal Dockets
  • Petty Offense
  • Court and Equity
  
Engineering and Public Works
  • Engineers
  • Wheeler Expedition
  • Canyon or Canon
  • Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC

... [Wheeler] Expedition of 1872: Marble Canon (ARC ID 295371)
Farming and Land
  • Farm or Farms or Farming or Farmer or Farmers
  • Grazing
  
Forests
  • Forest or Forests or Forestry
  • National Forest

Park Tan unit. Indian Lumbering operation on the Hualapai (ARC ID 295235)
Immigration and Naturalization
  • Immigration
  • Naturalization
  • Repatriation
  • Citizenship
  • Chinese
  • Chinese Exclusion Act
  • Greta Garbo
  • Alien and Registration

Declaration of Intention for Greta Garbo, 09/09/1948 (ARC ID 595201)
Marshals and Deputy Marshals, Territory of Arizona
  • Marshal and Arizona

Appointment and Oath of Office for Milton B. Duffield as Marshal in the Territory of Arizona, 04/10/1864 (ARC ID 295701)
Navy
  • Navy or Naval
  • Long Beach Naval Station
  • Point Honda
  • Naval and (Training Station or Training Center)
  • Marine Corps

Naval personnel on Parade with Naval Officers Conducting Review, U.S. Naval Training Station, San Diego, California (ARC ID 295557)
Ships
  • Ship or Ships or Vessel or Vessels
  • S. S. Montebello

Notes of the Sinking of the S. S. Montebello, 12/23/1941 (ARC ID 295011)
Waterways and Rivers
  • Dam or Dams
  • Channel
  • Spillway
  • Levee or Levees
  • Flood or Floods

La Crescenta District. Eagle-Shields Channel. (ARC ID 295326)
World War II
  • World War II or {World War, 1939-1945}
  

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