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Tag: deck logsSearching for a Shellback Ceremony in the Navy Deck LogsToday’s post is written by Archives II volunteer Jan Hodges. Do you know what a shellback ceremony is? Chances are that unless you’re a Navy man or a relative, you probably don’t. It’s a ritual conducted aboard ship after it crosses the equator. And not just any old ceremony–one that becomes part of the sailor’s permanent record. The Reference Unit [...] Posted by Guest Blogger on June 27, 2012, under Archives II, Military Records, Reference, Researchers. The Navy Deck Logs: Personal ExperienceToday’s post is written by Anwar Thomas, an archives technician at Archives II. Processing and consolidating the Navy Deck Logs in RG 24 Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel was an interesting project in my large criteria of archival experience. These logs are filled with many interesting hidden facts and details concerning important events [...] Posted by Guest Blogger on October 3, 2011, under Archives II, Military Records, The Process. The Navy Deck Logs: Personal ConnectionToday’s post is written by student technician Robert Finch. While working on the Navy Deck Logs (RG 24, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel) project I called my uncle and asked him which ships his father-in-law, “Mr. W.”, served on during World War II. “Mr. W.” was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 [...] Posted by Guest Blogger on April 19, 2011, under Archives II, Military Records. The Navy Deck LogsToday’s post is written by student technician Carrie Jones. I have been with NARA for a year as a student and since I started, I have been working on the team that has been processing and consolidating the Navy deck logs in RG 24, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, or as we call it, [...] Posted by Guest Blogger on March 28, 2011, under Archives II, Military Records, The Process. If I Was in Charge…We want to hear from our researchers! Here’s your chance to tell us what record groups you would like to see us working on…if you were in charge! In the last few years, the archivists working in the Textual Archives Services Division at Archives II have been involved in several large-scale processing projects. Archivists working with [...] Posted by Denise Henderson on February 8, 2011, under Civil Records, Military Records, Researchers. |
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