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Tag: historiansNext DC-Area Researchers Meeting on September 28, 2012Researchers are invited to the next researcher meeting on Friday, September 28, 2012 to meet with Research Services Executive Bill Mayer. The meeting will be held at the National Archives at College Park (Archives II) at 1:00 PM in lecture rooms B and C. See you there! Posted by Mary (admin) on September 19, 2012, under DC-area Researchers, Research. Pardon Our Dust…And Our NoiseOn Friday evening February 17 and Saturday February 18, the National Archives will be converting to a new copy card system and also replacing most of its self-service copiers. Contractors will be connecting and then testing equipment to make sure all is functioning properly on Tuesday February 21 (reminder: Monday February 20 is a Federal [...] Posted by Diane on February 3, 2012, under DC-area Researchers, Miscellaneous. Byrd ExpeditionThe following post comes from guest blogger Robyn Dexter, Archivist at the National Archives at Anchorage. Rear Admiral Richard Byrd was born in 1888, part of a prominent Virginia family. His commission in the Navy enabled him to pioneer developments in aviation, learning to fly during WWI. Byrd was instrumental in developing new technologies, such [...] Posted by Dawn on November 18, 2011, under NARA Coast to Coast, Research. Updated Responses to Questions about the Robert M. Warner Research Center Reconfiguration ProjectPresenters at the Researcher Forum meeting on August 18 responded to several questions about the Archives I Reconfiguration Project during the Q & A portion of the program, which they promised to look into further and supplement as follows. Availability of Print and Online Versions of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set NARA purchased the Digital [...] Posted by Dawn on September 13, 2011, under DC-area Researchers. Family Tree Friday: Online RIPs for Military and Civilian recordsThe more we interact with the public, whether at national conferences or NARA-sponsored events such at the annual Genealogy Fair, the more we hear how much researchers would like to see our finding aids available online. Well, this seems like a good opportunity to point out that two of our most popular genealogy Reference Information [...] Posted by John on September 2, 2011, under DC-area Researchers, Family Tree Fridays, Genealogy / Family History, Online Research, Research. “What Are You Working On, Tina Ligon?”Ever wonder what exciting new projects the many employees at NARA are working on? The “What are You Working On?” blog feature aims to introduce a variety of NARA employees and highlight some of the exciting projects we are working on around the agency. Check for this blog series on Wednesdays! This week, we introduce [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on March 16, 2011, under Veterans / Military, What Are You Working On Wednesdays. Attention All Researchers: Open Forum Tomorrow!There will be an open forum researchers’ meeting tomorrow, September 29, 2010 at Archives II in College Park, MD. Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero, will be attending, so be sure to come by with your questions. We will meet in lecture rooms A and B at Archives II at 1 pm. The agenda [...] Posted by Mary (admin) on September 28, 2010, under DC-area Researchers, Miscellaneous, Research. Mathew Brady Civil War Photos: New and Improved on Flickr!Way back in October, we announced that the National Archives was uploading several sets of our Mathew Brady photos onto Flickr. These original sets were not in any particular order, and were just a selection of the thousands of photographs that Mathew Brady took that now live at the National Archives. Also in that original [...] Posted by Mary (admin) on August 12, 2010, under Digitization, Miscellaneous, Online Research, Photographs, Research, Social Media (Web 2.0). DC-area Researchers: Mark your calendars for the next researcher meeting.Please join us on March 19th at 1 PM at Archives II in College Park (room TBD) for the first of a new series of monthly researcher meetings. Continuing the tradition of our Archives I Users Group, we will be holding monthly meetings with researchers to keep you informed of what is happening at Archives [...] Posted by Rebecca on March 4, 2010, under DC-area Researchers. DC-area Researchers: Welcome to our new discussion space!Our researchers in Archives I asked for a way that we could continue the discussions begun at our recent researcher meeting at Archives I in Washington, DC. Special media researchers have also encouraged us to make communications easier with staff and managers. In response, we’re introducing a specialized series here on NARAtions. This new set [...] Posted by Kristen (admin) on February 12, 2010, under DC-area Researchers. |
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