>Resent-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:03:09 -0700 >X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Wed Feb 23 08:03:08 2005 >From: [email protected] >Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:49:26 EST >Old-To: [email protected] >X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5004 >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1015 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] >Subject: [NCDOBBS] National Archives Image Resources >X-Junkmail-Status: score=59/100, host=mr12.mrf.mail.rcn.net >X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=bulk(9), >refid=0001.0A090202.421C9A45.004E-F-tvqJKY4HInECCrm042curQ==, ip=66.43.18.41 > >The National Archives is perhaps an overlooked on-line resource for images >of pictures or documents for most researchers. However, I have found some >nice stuff there relating to projects I have been working on which has saved >postage and copying fees. This morning, I found that there are many, many >photos of homes in Western NC, SE VA, and Eastern TN which were impacted >by floods >or the TVA. In addition, there are many photos of coal mining, textile, >furniture workers, CCC and TVA construction sites. > >For Afro-American researchers, they have the images of the Death & Interment >Records for USC troops who died at Nelson General Hospital at Camp Nelson, >KY during the Civil War. > >Here is a step-by-step guide to access this resource. > >1) Go to NARA's Archival Research Catalog: > >_http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/_ >(http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/) > >2) In the top left corner, you will see a yellow "Search" button, click >this. This will take you to the Basic Search page. > >3) At the Basic search page, ENSURE that under "FILTER YOUR SEARCH," you >check the box beside "DESCRIPTIONS of ARCHIVAL MATERIALS LINKED TO DIGITAL >COPIES." > >4) Enter your search term. > >5) Set the "Limit Results to" box to 2000. > >I have not had much success with the "Advanced Search" so I don't use it >often. You may have to play around with keywords to get in the >neighborhood of >what you are looking for. > >Notes: > >1) If you find something relevant, or simply interesting, you can click on >the first link beneath the image which will give a fuller description of the >image as well as the record archive from which it comes. Clicking the link, >"Larger Image" brings up a larger image but they do not have any captions. > >2) If you want to reference an image without saving it to your PC, ALWAYS >note the ARC Identifier !!! That is important as search queries and results >locations are not saved. The ARC ID is a permanent identifier for the image. > >3) The Search Results time-out fairly quickly if no activity is detected (I >think about 10 minutes), so if that happens, you pretty well have to start >over. > >Let me know if you have any further questions and I will attempt to answer >them. Rather than clogging up the list, just send the question to me >privately and if I think it warrants a wider audience, I will compile the >questions >and answers. > >Feel free to forward this to any who you feel may benefit. It has been so >long since I have looked at my genealogy addresses, I have sort of forgotten >who is who with which list, which may explain why some of you get multiple >copies :> > >And before anyone asks what I have been doing, I am working on the PFH, aka, >the Project from Hades. That is the project in which I am endeavoring to >identify every US soldier, by name, who died on the western frontier >(defined >by me as west of the Mississippi and east of Alcatraz Island) from all >causes: > disease, accident, suicide, murder and combat between the years 1849 and >1895. I hope to include some genealogical data in the finished form which >seems (and is) light-years away. > >With hope that everyone finds something at NARA that they did not know >existed, > >Billy