Disasters: Natural & Man-Made » Records Destruction

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• First in the Path of the Firemen - The Fate of the 1890 Population Census

  Blake, Kellee. 1996. Prologue, National Archives and Records Administration. 28:1.

• Humanitarian tragedy: Fire exterminated one of the Kamianets-Podilsky Archives' Warehouses

  Records destruction in the Ukraine due to fire in 2003.

• Lost Records: Courthouse Fires and Disasters in Tennessee

• NARA's National Personnel Records Center (NPRC)

  St. Louis, Missouri. One of the National Archives and Records Administration's largest operations. A central repository of personnel-related records, both military and civil service.

  • Civilian Personnel Records

    Houses the official personnel folders, employee medical folders & personnel documents back to the mid-nineteenth century.

  • Military Personnel Records NPRC (MPR)

    Military personnel & medical records of discharged and deceased veterans of all services during the 20th century.

    • Alternate Record Sources

      When proof of military service is needed, NPRC(MPR) attempts to reconstruct certain basic service data from these alternate sources.

    • The 1973 Fire at the National Personnel Records Center (St. Louis, MO)

      Discusses the records which were lost in this disastrous fire and those which survived.

• Syria Gate - Ebla

  Sometimes when a library burns, it actually preserves the records it keeps.

  • The Condition of the Ebla Tablets

• The Records Were Burned... Were They?

  By Sue Powell Morgan.
  [The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

• What to Do When the Courthouse Has Burned and You are All Out of.