NARA’s Office of the Chief Operating Officer, in collaboration with the Office of Innovation, Research Services, and the Office of Presidential Libraries, has created a new webpage and next generation finding aid that brings together NARA recor...
The National Archives Cartographic Branch holds a large amount of aerial photography taken by the US armed forces. There are 24 million aerial photographs taken by the US from World War II alone. Normally when you open a film can, there’s not m...
Eric Kilgore speaks today on "National Archives at St. Louis: Understanding the 1973 Fire and Its Impact on Genealogical Research." Premiering today, May 17, 2023, at 1 p.m. EDT, the presentation will remain online on YouTube fo...
NARA's 2023 Genealogy Series begins today, May 3, 2023, at 1:00 PM EDT, with "Civilians at War: Records of Participation in U.S. Military Conflicts," and runs through June 14, 2023, on YouTube. Don't worry if you miss a ...
Records of the War Crimes Branch, U.S. Army, Europe in Record Group 549 include the war crimes trial records of the U.S. Army courts (military commissions or general military government courts) in Germany from 1945 to 1948. From July 1945 to October...
Army1775 - October 1912For more information about these records, please contact the National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference (RDT1) at archives1reference@nara.gov.Revolutionary War Rolls (documents 1775 - 1783) in the War Department Co...
The United States conducted World War II war crimes trials in Europe under three jurisdictions: the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, U.S. military tribunals at Nuremberg, and U.S. Army courts. General authority for the proceedings of all...
In October 1946 the Office of the Chief of Counsel for War Crimes (OCCWC) was established with the objective to identify and prosecute Nazi war criminals within the American zone. Evolved from the organization and staff of the Subsequent Proceedings ...
The National Archives and Records Administration holds a substantial quantity of records relating to Holocaust-Era art provenance and claims research. Within these holdings there are records relating to the looting, identification, recovery, and disp...
There are few events in U. S. history that spark the imagination to “what happened” than the disappearance of Flight 19 on December 5, 1945. In brief, for those unfamiliar with the story, Flight 19 was a training flight of five Grumman TB...
Linked below are just a few of the National Archive's web pages, blogs, and announcements related to D-Day exhibits and records at the National Archives. Many of these pages in turn link additional pages."Display Commemorates 75th D-Day Anniversary" ...
The National Archives has a wealth of records and information documenting the U.S. experience in the Vietnam conflict, including photographs, textual and electronic records, audiovisual recordings, exhibits, educational resources, articles, blog post...
Women have been serving in the military since the Revolutionary War in one capacity or another. In 1775, women followed their husbands to serve as laundresses, cooks and nurses, as long as the commanding officers decided they were proving themselves ...
Although there may be yearbooks and crew photos intermingled with textual records of the units, ships or crews, they are not considered permanent records unless the photographs were taken by the Army Signal Corps or other official military photograph...
The National Archives holds many records from the Civil War era and also offers many resources to help researchers make the most of those records. You can start your Civil War research with the National Archives here: https://www.archives.gov/researc...
So you’ve been doing some research on your ancestor who may or may not have served in the Civil War. You’ve consulted the Consolidated Enrollment Lists which have been digitized and made available on Ancestry.com (accessible for free in N...
