Showing posts with label National Archives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Archives. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Tuesday's Tip - NARA Video: Intro to Census Records

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is on YouTube with a variety of channels that highlight its extensive holdings and provide instructive videos on how to find and use various records and record collections. 

A new video of interest to beginner genealogists was recently added to the line-up. "Genealogy Introduction: Census Records at the National Archives" is presented by Constance Potter, an archivist at the National Archives in Washington, DC, specializing in federal records of interest to genealogists. She is an expert on the U.S. census records. In this YouTube video, Connie delivered a talk on the intricacies of the U.S. Federal Census records from 1790 to 1930 and how they can be used for genealogical research.  

Watch the video here. 

I learned about this video from my free subscription to Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (EOGN).

Tuesday's Tip is one of several blogging themes suggested on Geneabloggers.  If you have a tip for beginning genealogists, please send it to fhdmailbox@gmail.com and I will post it here.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

National Archives at San Francisco, Exhibitor at Family History Day

Please welcome the National Archives at San Francisco as an exhibitor at Family History Day at the Californi State Archives.

The National Archives at San Francisco, located in our San Bruno facility, has more than 55,000 cubic feet of archival holdings dating from 1850 to the 1980s, including:
  • Textual documents
  • Photographs
  • Maps
  • Architectural drawings
These archival holdings were created or received by the Federal courts and more than 100 Federal agencies in northern California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada (except Clark County), American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Federal law requires that agencies transfer permanently valuable, noncurrent records to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Among the subjects covered are Chinese exclusion and immigration, the development of Pearl Harbor and mainland coastal fortifications, former World War II defense sites, public land use, national forests, migrant labor camps, and tribal history.

The National Archives at San Francisco has many resources for genealogists including:
  • Getting Started
  • Genealogy Guides
  • Genealogy Tools
  • Tools for Genealogists
  • Free online websites
Stop by the National Archives exhibit at Family History Day and learn more about their holdings and services.  Maybe you can grow your family tree in San Bruno.

National Archives at San Francisco
Leo J. Ryan Federal Building
1000 Commodore Drive
San Bruno, California 94066-2350
(650) 238-3500