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The Archives I Research Support Branch (NWCC1) at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, has a multifaceted program, designed to inform researchers about the National Archives’ (NARA) Tholdings pertaining to family and community history and assist researchers to locate files and develop research strategies. Photo by Jermaine Scott Publications Rebecca Crawford speaks at the Genealogy Fair

Periodically, NARA staff publishes articles in order Upcoming NARA Staff to expand research community awareness of NARA's Upcoming NARA Staff holdings. By targeting state and local historical and Presentations genealogical societies with articles about the John Deeben agency's holdings, we hope to reach people who y SeamaSeaman’sn’s Certificates – National Institute on Genealogical otherwise would not think of the National Archives Research (NIGR), July 18, 2008 as a resource for their research. During the past few months, the staff has published the following: Diane DiDimkoffmkoff y Welcome anandd Orientation to Archives II Research Areas – John Deeben (published): NIGR, July 17, 2008 “To Protect and To Serve: The Records of the D.C. Metropolitan Police, 1861–1930” [Prologue 40:1 Kenneth HHegereger (Spring 2008): 50–57] y NationNationalal Archives Research Center – NIGR, July 14, 2008 y Paying the Veterans… – NIGR, July 16, 2008 Rebecca Sharp (accepted for publication): y AmeAmericanrican Indian Research: an Introduction – NIGR, July 18, 2008 “An Introduction to Passport Application Research, Claire KlKluskensuskens 1906–1925” [Voyage: The Official Journal of the Titanic International Society] y Using NARA Finding Aids for Archival Research – NIGR, July 14, 2008 y Canadian Border Crossing Records – NIGR, July 19, 2008 Speakers Claire Kluskens and Kenneth Heger at the Fourth Annual Genealogy Fair ConstancConstancee Potter y NANARARA Before and After – NIGR, July 14, 2008 y Tour ooff Research Area – NIGR, July 14, 2008

Jermaine ScScottott y DiDigitalgital Camera Workshop – NIGR, July 16, 2008 Photos by Jermaine Scott ReReginaldginald Washington y Records of the Southern Claims Commission – NIGR, July 15, 2008 y African American ResResearchearch – NIGR, July 18, 2008 National Archives Building Research Center (cont.)

New MicroMicrofilmfilm Publications

Staff members continue to process accessioned A3462, Manifests of Alien Arrivals at Porthill, Idaho, 1923– microfilm that documents arrivals into the United 1952 (2 rolls). 16 mm. RG 85. Contains over 13,000 arrivals. States, turning this film into National Archives A3469, Nonpopulation Census Schedules for New Jersey, microfilm publications. During the last quarter, 1880: Supplemental Schedules of Defective, Dependent, and Claire Prechtel-Kluskens completed the following Delinquent Classes (5 rolls). 35mm. RG 29. National Archives microfilm publications: A3470, Chinese Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at San Diego, California, October 1905–July 1923 (1 roll). A3461, Supplemental Manifests of Alien Passengers and 35mm. RG 85. Crew Members Who Arrived on Vessels at New York, New York, 1887–1952, Who Were Inspected for Admission, 1915– A3471, Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at San Diego, 1952, and Related Index (21 rolls). 35 mm. RG 85. California, 1904–1952 (15 rolls). 35 mm. RG 85.

AdditionalAdditional MicrofilmMicrofilm PublicationsPublications OnlineOnline

footnote.com has placed the following microfilm publications on their web site:

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footnote.com has placed the following microfilm publications on their web site:

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NewNew OnOnlineline CatalogCatalog FeaturesFeatures ComingComing SoonSoon

A new version of the National Archives' Archival Research Catalog (ARC) will be released on the NARA web site this spring. AThe ARC database will undergo a technical upgrade to the coding and hardware. It also will get a new look and enhanced search and display features.

Streamlined Search Screen ARC’s redesigned Basic Search screen The new advanced search features are reduce scrolling. A new search feature, emulates familiar search engines like more user-friendly. Expanded keyword "Search Within…," allows researchers to Google and Ask. Basic search offers a search options and a title only filter will conduct a search within a particular Record keyword search box with options to help researchers reduce the number of Group, Collection, Series, or File Unit. search all archival descriptions, those irrelevant search results. Collapsible with digital copies, or those related to filter options will provide a more particular people or organizations. streamlined view of search options and

Intuitive BBrowserowse Options

Browsing through search results will be The improved hierarchy view features The full details view of archival descriptions easier with new features such as intuitive graphical icons to illustrate a will be better organized with separate tabs highlighting search terms and an Record Group or Collection as a file for archived copy information, shot lists, enhanced hierarchy view. A checkbox cabinet, a Series as a drawer in that digital copies, and archival hierarchy option allows the researcher to highlight cabinet, a File Unit as a file folder, and information. The tabular display will reduce his or her search terms within summary an Item as a page from that folder. the need for scrolling and make it easier for search results and archival descriptions Search hits in the hierarchy view will researchers to pinpoint specific information details pages. link to the descriptions' full details. in a description.

"My List" and E-mail

An ARC user will be able to save up to 2,000 archival descriptions during an active session to “My List” for reference, printing, or e-mailing. “My List” will allow users to save time by identifying descriptions of interest while continuing to search. Individual descriptions can also be e-mailed or printed.

Please visit the ARC main page at www.archives.gov/research/arc/ for additional information about the upcoming ARC features. Photo by Jermaine Scott Jill James and Rebecca Warlow provide assistance on ARC at the Genealogy Fair

6 Damani Davis Damani DaDavisvis is a reference archivist at NARA's Research Support Branch in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of Coppin State College in Baltimore, MD, and received his M.A. in American/African- American history at the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. Damani is a native of Philadelphia, PA, and currently resides in Baltimore, MD.

Mr. Davis is a subject matter expert on GenealogicGenealogicalal Society’s 2008 conference in Black Migration records. His research has Kansas City. In addition, Damani will be taken him into records of an 1880 Senate speaking at the upcoming Federation of investigationinvestigation iinto the migration as well as Genealogical Society’s annual conference in other Federal records on this topic. His Philadelphia in September. His article on the research has shown him how disfranchised Exodusters will be published in next issue and oppressed African Americans living in of NARA’s magazine, Prologue.

Photo by Jermaine Scott Jermaine by Photo the post-Reconstruction South attempted Currently, his involvement in the archivists’ to achieve their version of the American training program takes him on rotational dream by migrating to Kansas. assignments to various offices within NARA. He has given talks on Exodusters: the Within the past quarter, he has worked with First Black Migration at both NARA’s NARA’s records manager and has 2006 African American Genealogy completed rotational assignments in the Still Symposium and at the 2008 National Pictures and Motion Pictures offices.

Rebecca Sharp ReRebeccabecca K. Sharp, a genealogy archives specialist with the Research Support Branch (NWCC1), began her professional career at the National Archives in 2005. Rebecca answers passport application search requests as well as other genealogical reference questions.

She conducts workshoworkshops,ps, lectures, and Rebecca graduated summa cum laude writes articles about Federal records of with departmental honors in History from genealogical interest. McDaniel Collegellege (established(established asas WesternWestern Maryland College). She is a member of two Rebecca and her colleague, Katherine academic honor societies, Phi Alpha Theta Vollen, provide passport application and Phi Beta Kappa. Photo by Jermaine Scott Jermaine by Photo research lectures and workshops. She is the author of the Prologue article entitled Prior to joining the staff at the National “‘[T]heir… Bedding is wet Their floors are Archives, she worked as a veterinary damp’: ‘Pre Bureau’ Records and Civil technician and as a retail sales associate War African-American Genealogy.” where she gained valuable customer Rebecca’s’s article,article, “An“An IntroductionIntroduction toto service experience. Rebecca’s job as a Passport Application Research, 1906– research assistant to her former McDaniel 1925,” willll appearappear inin anan upcomingupcoming issueissue College advisor and professor, Dr. Paul B. of Voyage: The Official Journall ofof thethe Miller, helped her to further develop her Titanic Internationall SocietySociety. research and writing skills.

7 In the fall of 2004, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) introduced the Know Your Records program. The initial program offered weekly lectures and monthly genealogy workshops to staff, volunteers, and the public. Featured speakers described NARA’s records; explained how and where to locate the records; and demonstrated how to use the records for research.

CurrentCurrently,ly, each one-hour lecture is delivered programsprograms areare offeredoffered onon Saturdays.Saturdays. twice within the same week—on Tuesdays at InIn addiadditiontion toto providingproviding opportunitiesopportunities forfor the National Archives Building at 700 staff,staff, volunvolunteers,teers, andand researchersresearchers toto learnlearn Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, abouaboutt NARA’sNARA’s recordsrecords throughthrough lectureslectures and on Thursdays, at the National Archives andand genegenealogyalogy programs,programs, wewe offeroffer C(Archives II), located at 8601 Adelphi Road, symposiasymposia,, thethe annualannual genealogygenealogy fair,fair, College Park, MD. Most of these sessions are quartequarterlyrly editionseditions ofof ReseResearcherarcher NewsNews,, aa videotaped and made available for gegenealogynealogy tutorial,tutorial, andand thethe monthlymonthly FromFrom interlibrary loan through NARA libraries and thethe RecoReRecordscordsrds BookBook GroupGroup discusdidiscussions.scussions.sions. our regional facilities throughout the United ForFor bookbook groupgroup news,news, sseeee pagepage 1111.. States. Some, but not all, of the genealogy

We publicize our offerings in NARA’s Calendar of Events at www.archives.gov/calwww.archives.gov/calendar/endar/ and on our web page at www.archives.gov/dc-metro/know-your-records/ See thithiss quarter’s schedule below.

JUNE EVENTS:

TuTuesday,esday, June 3, 2008, 11 a.m. Room G-24, Research Center (Enter on Pennsylvania Avenue) ReRevolutionaryvolutionary War Records at Footnote.com Beau Sharbrough, Vice President of Content for Footnote.com, will discuss Revolutionary War records at footnote.com. (This lecture will be repeated at the National Archives at College Park, MD, in Lecture Room B, on Thursday, June 5, 11 a.m.)

Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 11:30 a.m. Room G-24, Research Center (Enter on Pennsylvania Avenue) Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War. Dora L. Costa and Dr. Robert Fogel will discuss the book Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War, writtwrittenen by Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn. They will discuss the paths taken to research this subject, using data from the Union Army pension records. (One session only)

8 Save the date for next year’s fair!

WeWednesday,dnesday, April 22, 2009

On April 23, 2008, the NatiNationalonal Archives and Records Administration (NARA) held a day-long genealogy fair in the Research Center at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. This year’s fair focused on three themes: Basic Genealogy, World War I (WWI), and the New Deal. The program offered concurrent lectures on these three topics.

A recorecordrd-breaking 450 people attended the fair, taking advantage of the many sessions, exhibits, demonstrations, expertise, and handouts offered. In addition to an introductory session on genealogy, lectures included information on records relating to the following topics:

• AcceAccessss to Archival Databases (AAD); • immigration and naturalization • birth information in Federal records; records of WWI; • the Archival Research Catalog (ARC); • WWI draft registrations; • land entry papers at NARA; • Civilian Conservation Corps; • marriage records in the Freedmen’s • Federal Emergency Relief Administration; Bureau files; • DNA testing; • civil war pension files; • Works Progress Administration (WPA) • WWI gold star mothers; State Guides; • merchant seamen in WWI; • Virginia Slave Births Indexes; and • passport applications; • publications of the WPA.

In additadditionion to the NARA staff and volunteers who spoke on a variety of topics of interest to researchers, featured guest speakers included Dr. Thomas Shawker (National Institutes of Health), Leslie Anderson Morales (History/Special Collections in the Alexandria Library, Alexandria, VA), and Marian Smith (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security).

The Customer Services Division and the Center for the National Archives Experience partnered to host a special book lecture by author Raff Ellis, who discussed his book, Kisses from a Distance: An Immigrant Family Experience. He discussed his research as he chronicled a Lebanese immigrant experience based on a cache of more than 200 letters discovered after the death of his mother.

9 Photo by Jermaine Scott Randall Fortson provides information on ALIC

ALIC has added the following volumes to its collections in both buildings: National Archives Building, Washington, DC (Archives I) National Archives at College ParPark,k, MD (Archives II)

• BannBanner,er, Stuart. How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law • Hess, Earl J. Field Armies and Fortifications in the and Power on the Frontier. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861–1864. Chapel Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. 344 p. E 98 L3 Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2005. xix, 428 p. B36 2005 E 470.2 H47 2005 • BatvinisBatvinis,, Raymond J. The Origins of FBI • Holton, WoWoody.ody. Unruly Americans and the Origins of Counterintelligence. Lawrence: University Press of the Constitution. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. xi, Kansas, c2007. xii, 332 p. HV 8144 F43 B48 2007 370 p. KF 4541 H58 2007 • Browne-MarsMarshall,hall, Gloria J. The Constitution: Major • JacJacobs,obs, Seth. Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and Cases and Conflicts. Boston, Mass.: Pearson Custom the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963. Publishing, c2006. xl, 425 p. KF 4550 B76 2006 Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006. xi, • BurnsBurnstein,tein, Daniel Eli. Next to Godliness: Confronting 207 p. DS 556.9 J34 2006 Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City. • LaFebeLaFeber,r, Walter. The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam, and Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, c2006. x, 200 p. the 1968 Election. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield TD 819 N6 B87 2006 Publishers, c2005. x, 217 p. E 851 L33 2005 • Dallek, Robert. Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in • LangstLangston,on, Thomas S. The Cold War Presidency: A Power. New York: HarperCollins Pub., c2007. xii, 740 p., Documentary History. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, [16] p. of plates. E 856 D35 2007 c2007. xxi, 596 p. E 176.1 L265 2007 • DeRosDeRosa,a, Christopher S. Political Indoctrination in the • LaLatimer,timer, Jon. 1812: War With America. Cambridge, U.S. Army from World War II to the Vietnam War. Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2006. xiv, 328 p. xiv, 637 p. E 354 L36 2007 UA 25 D42 2006 • Lowry, Thomas P. Confederate Heroines: 120 • Dunbar, William. The Forgotten Expedition, 1804– Southern Women Convicted by Union Military 1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar Justice. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, and Hunter. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University c2006. xvii, 212 p. E 628 L69 2006 Press, c2006. xxxvi, 248 p. F 353 D86 2006 • Majd, MohMohammadammad Gholi. Oil and the Killing of the • EngeEngel,l, Jeffrey A. Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo- American Consul in Tehran. Lanham, MD: University American Fight for Aviation Supremacy. Cambridge, Press of America, c2006. 350 p. HD 9576 I62 M27 2006 Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xi, 351 p., [8] p. of plates. E 183.8 G7 E49 2007 • MoMonahan,nahan, Evelyn. And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II. New York: Knopf, 2003. x, 514 • Fry, Joseph A. Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, o/newsletter/index.html • p. D 807 U6 M66 2003 and their Senate Hearings. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, c2006. xi, 199 p. DS 558 F79 2006 • Owens, Robert M. Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian • GrahGraham,am, Thomas. Spy Satellites and other Intelligence Policy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c2007. Technologies that Changed History. Seattle: University xxx, 311 p. E 392 O94 2007 of Washingtonington Press,Press, c2007.c2007. xvi,xvi, 171171 p.p. JZJZ 56655665 G73G73 2007 • PacaPacalo,lo, Patrick J. Cold Warfare: A Compact History. Baltimore: PublishAmerica, c2004. 279 p. D 843 P23 • Hall, Richard. Women on the Civil War Battlefront. 2004x Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c2006. x, 397 p. E 628 H35 2006 • Prados, John. Safe For Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. xxxv, 696 p. JK www.archives.gov/dc-metr • Hamilton, DaDanielniel W. The Limits of Sovereignty: 468 I6 P715 2006 Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy During the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 231 p. KF 7221 H36 2007 10 • Stone, Geoffrey R. Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps • Xia, Yafeng. Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks Us in the Dark. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, During the Cold War, 1949–1972. Bloomington: Indiana University c2007. xvi, 139 p. KF 5753 S76 2007 Press, c2006. xv, 326 p. E 183.8 C5 X53 2006 I • Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. New • Yaqub, Salim. Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower York: Doubleday, c2007. 702 p., [8] p. of plates. JK 468 I6 W44 Doctrine and the Middle East. Chapel Hill: University of North 2007 Carolinalina Press,Press, c2004.c2004. x,x, 377 p. DS 63.2 U5 Y37 2004 • WheWheeler,eler, James Scott. The Big Red One: America's Legendary • Yu, MaochuMaochun.n. The Dragon's War: Allied Operations and the 1st Infantry Division from World War I to Desert Storm. Fate of China, 1937–1947. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, c2007. xiv, 594 p. UA c2006. x, 242 p. DS 777.532 Y8 2006 27.5 1st W485 2007 • ZumbroZumbro,, Derek S. Battle for the Ruhr: The German Army's Final • WrigWright,ht, Lawrence. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road Defeat in the West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. to 9/11. New York: Knopf, 2006. 469 p., [16] p. of plates. HV 6432.7 viii, 447 p. D 756.5 R8 Z97 2006 W75 2006 These volumes are available for viewing on the new acquisitions shelf at the appropriate location. For more information on these or other titles in ALIC’s collections, please see the online catalog at www.archives.gov/research/alic/tools/online-public-access-catalog.html.

The Know Your Records Program launched its book group in September 2006.

In order to provide an introduction to the topic of the month’s book, we will be holding a lecture or film at 11 a.m. before the book group discussion, which begins at noon.

On April 15, 2008, 20 former PeacPeacee Corps employees came together for a lively panel discussion on their experiences while serving in the Peace Corps. In conjunction with their discussion, Joe Byrnes (NWM) moderated the Book Group’s April selection, All You Need is Love. o/newsletter/index.html

Joe Byrnes, moderator www.archives.gov/dc-metr Photos by Jermaine Scott Peace Corps panel

11 From The Records Book Group (cont.)

Our bbookook group will not meet again until September 16, 2008. Our Fall schedule follows:

September 16, 2008 The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence, by John C. Dann (Editor) A fascinating selection of information based on the testimony of embattled farmers who tell us in their own words what they saw with their own eyes. The Revolution Remembered uses 79 firsthand accounts from veterans of the war to provide the reader with the feel of what it must have been like to fight and live through America's bloody battle for independence. The military pension records at the National Archives provide an importantportant sourcesource for this book.book.

October 21, 2008 Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea, by Jeffrey T. Richelson Richelson traces the evolution of U.S. nuclear intelligence efforts—both susuccccessesesses and failures—from the early days of World War II to the 21st century. The author focuses on the early nuclear programs of 15 nations and the U.S. effort to determine if they were trying to acquire nuclear weapons, how far they had gotten, and their attempts to improve those capabilities. Thus, the book examines the work of the CIA and other intelligence agencies in identifying and providing the details about those nuclear programs, as well as the agencies' efforts to monitor and evaluate nuclear testing—rather than their efforts to gather information on the nuclear arsenals. Each of the 14 chapters focuses on the nuclear activities of one or a small number of nations. Richelson draws on recently declassified documents and interviews with scientists and spies involved in nuclear espionage. His analysis of our nation's nuclear espionage includes spy- satellite photographs from the National Archives.

November 18, 2008 The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art, by Hector Feliciano

During the occupation of Paris, the Nazis confiscated nearly 100,000 artworks from more than 200 collectors, transporting most of the spoils to Germany. The most extensive and valuable collections belonged to five renowned Jewish families: Rosenberg, Rothschild, Schloss, David-Weill and Bernheim-Jeune. After the war, many works that were found were returned to their owners. But a large number had disappeared, was destroyed, or was spirited out of Europe into the underground art market. Drawing on recently declassified government archives and information provided by the heirs of the collections, Feliciano traces the fate of the artworks. Two thousand of these stolen artworks have been identified in the Louvre and other French national museums, fomenting a scandal that has received front-page coverage throughout Europe and spurred a series of new claims and suits by heirs. In this updated and enlarged American edition, he reveals the location of stolen works hanging in major U.S. museums, as well.