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• Cartographic and Architectural Records at the National Archives in College Park, MD

  The Cartographic and Architectural holdings in College Park, Maryland, include over 15 million items, including maps, charts, aerial photographs, architectural drawings, patents, and ship plans.

• Digitization at the National Archives (U.S.) ^FREE

  Microfilm Publications and Original Records Digitized by Our Digitization Partners

• Founders Online

  From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Correspondence and other writings of six major shapers of the United States: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. More than 174,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers Papers projects.

• National Archives (US) - The Innovation Hub

  The Innovation Hub provides a space for the public to scan documents in their holdings. You get digital copies of the scans, free of charge and they get a web-quality scan to upload into our online catalog. Tag and transcribe items already in the NARA catalog.

• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

  • Access to Archival Databases (AAD) System

    Online searchable database of over 50 million records from the National Archives.

  • Digitization at the National Archives

    • List of NARA Microfilm Publications and Original Records Digitized by Our Digitization Partners

      Links to databases for the digitization partners, Ancestry.com and Fold3.com.

  • Featured Exhibits

  • Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

    • Electronic Reading Room

    • NARA Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Reference Guide

  • NARA Calendar of Events

    For the National Archives facilities in and around Washington, DC and nationwide.

  • NARAtions - The Blog of the United States National Archives

  • National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)

  • National Personnel Records Center

    Houses the Official Personnel Folders (OPF) and Employee Medical Folders (EMF) of separated Federal civilian employees. CPR also houses personnel documents that date back to the mid-nineteenth century, although the bulk of the collection covers the period from 1900 to present. Also houses the medical records of military family members treated at Army, Air Force and Coast Guard medical facilities.

    • Frequently Asked Questions - Civilian Personnel Records

    • Services for the Public - Civilian Personnel Records

  • New to Archival Research?

    Background information, definitions and tools to assist research in the archives of United States government.

  • Obtaining Copies of Records

  • Online Public Access

    A centralized, streamlined means of searching multiple National Archives resources at once, including the Archival Research Catalog (ARC), Access to Archival Databases (AAD), Archives.gov, and the Electronic Records Archive (ERA).

  • Order Forms for Military Service and Family History Records

    Including military service and pension records (NATF Form 86); military service records in the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, MO (Standard Form 180); Ship passenger arrival records (NATF Form 81); Census records (NATF Form 82); Eastern Cherokee land application records (NATF Form 83); Land entry files (NATF Form 84.)

  • Pathfinder for Women's History in the National Archives and Records Administration Library

  • Request and Order Reproductions

    You can request reproductions of certain records held by NARA & pay for your order with most major credit cards.

  • Research by Federal Government Organization

    Includes Presidential materials, Congressional record groups, executive agency record groups and federal court record groups.

  • Research by Location: A Nationwide Network of Facilities

    Links to online information about NARA records and research facilities throughout the United States.

  • Research Facilities

    • National Archives at Atlanta

      Records for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

    • National Archives at Boston

      Records for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

    • National Archives at Chicago

      Records for Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

    • National Archives at Denver

      Records for Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, and a portion of New Mexico.

    • National Archives at Fort Worth

      Records for Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.

    • National Archives at Kansas City, Missouri

      Records for Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.

    • National Archives at New York City

      Records for New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands dating from 1685 to the present.

    • National Archives at Philadelphia

      Records for Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, dating from 1789 to the present.

    • National Archives at Riverside

      Federal records from southern California, Arizona and Clark County, Nevada

    • National Archives at San Francisco

      Records for northern and central California, Hawaii, Nevada except Clark County, American Samoa, Guam, former Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Also include records of U.S. Navy bases on foreign territory in the Pacific and Far East.

    • National Archives at Seattle

      Records for Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.

  • Research in Federal Records and Presidential Materials By Media

    Textual, microforms, cartographic, architectural, electronic, film, video, sound, photographs, graphic works, government documents and books.

  • Resources for Genealogists

    • Genealogy FAQs

    • Genealogy Research Topics

  • U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - Online Public Access

    Online public portal for the records and information about the records for NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries.

    • About Online Public Access (OPA)

    • OPA - Online Public Access: Genealogy

    • Search Tips for Online Public Access

    • Using Online Public Access

  • What's New

• National Archives Catalog

• SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Context

  SNAC is pleased to announce the launch of the Social Networks and Archival Context Cooperative, hosted by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Cooperative will enable archivists, librarians, and scholars to jointly maintain information about the people documented in archival collections. It will also improve the economy and quality of archival processing and description, and address the challenge of discovering, locating, and using distributed historical records. This is a pilot project that is helping researchers connect the scattered archival collections of important people, places, and events.

  • SNAC Prototype Database

    An aggregate of biographical information about people, both individuals and groups, who created or are documented in historical resources.

• The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - Records of the office of the Secretary of Agriculture

  (Record Group 16) 1839-1981.

• U.S. National Archives - Citizen Archivist Dashboard

  You can make contributions to the National Archives Catalog to enhance access and discoverability. Transcribe historical documents, tag archival photographs, or share comments with other community members.

• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - Citizen Archivist Dashboard

  Transcribe historical documents, contribute articles, upload your own images.