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The National Archives has relocated its Kansas City branch on Tuesday to the Adams Express Building near Union Station. The new address is: 400 West Pershing Road, Kansas City, MO 64108; Phone: 816-268-8000. The $10 million renovation of the Adams Continue reading Kansas City Branch of the National Archives Makes the Move
Every now and then genealogists need to order documents from the National Archives. To make your order or to download necessary forms, just go to the Ready to Order? Have a Comment? page at the National Archives and Records Administration Continue reading Get Your NARA Forms Here
The following news release was written by Minnesota Historical Society staff: A project to restore fragile Civil War battle flags in the Minnesota Historical Society’s collection has been selected to receive funding from the Save America’s Treasures program, which is Continue reading Rare Civil War & Spanish-American War Battle Flags to Be Restored at the Minnesota Historical Society
The Vermont State Archives and Records Administration has now opened for business in a new location in a warehouse complex in Middlesex. Eighty-eight thousand boxes of records have been stored there anyway, so the move seems logical to me. The Continue reading Vermont State Archives and Records Administration Opens in Middlesex
The following news release was written by National Archives staff: Digitizing for Preservation and Access: Past is Prologue WASHINGTON, March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – In celebration of its 75th anniversary, the National Archives will host its annual preservation conference entitled Digitizing Continue reading National Archives to Hold 23rd Annual Preservation Conference March 26, 2009
Tarlton Corporation is taking on an expanded role on the new $100 million 474,690-square-foot National Archives and Records Administration military personnel records facility to be built in north St. Louis County. The new role for Tarlton came about as Barry Continue reading Tarlton Corporation to Take on Expanded Role in the Construction of the New Military Personnel Records Center
The Cologne city Archives collapsed last week – and I blogged about the tragic event at that time. Since then, my friend, Donna Potter Phillips, has been corresponding with a friend (Cookie), who lives near Frankfurt. The following is an Continue reading Personal Observations on the Collapse of the Cologne City Archives
Less than two weeks after its dedication, the new Arizona $38 million Polly Rosenburg Archives & History Building closes today, the latest consequence of the state’s budget problems. The building opened late last fall and was dedicated in mid-January. This Continue reading Arizona’s New Polly Rosenburg Archives & History Building Closes
UPDATE: Read about just how bad this disaster was in the March 4, 2009 article titled “Archive Collapse Disaster for Historians” in Spiegel Online. The Cologne City Archive in Germany collapsed today. It seems that all the employees are safe. Continue reading Cologne City Archive Collapses in Germany
There have been numerous articles, speculation, and rumors about the proposed George W. Bush Presidential Library, to be located on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas. We are now starting to get what can be considered the Continue reading Details Coming Out About the George W. Bush Presidential Library
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. is currently hosting a new forensic anthropology exhibit – Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake. The exhibit is made up of skeletal remains – human bones Continue reading Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
PIERRE– The South Dakota State Historical Society is seeking donations of written materials that convey state history. The State Archives, which is in the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre, collects such documents. State Archivist Chelle Somsen says examples include letters, Continue reading The South Dakota State Historical Society Seeking Documents
Voter registration records have long been used by genealogists – most often considered as an added proof of residence in a community, but also useful in establishing length of that residence and nativity. The Alabama Department of Archives and History Continue reading The 1867 Alabama Voter Registration Database & Digitized Images Online
Vietnam and France have agreed to cooperate in the field of archives. The agreement was signed in Paris on Feb. 11 by Director of the Vietnamese State Archives Department, Vu Thi Minh Huong, and General Director of the French Archives Continue reading Vietnam & France Sign an Archives Agreement
Accumulations of snow and ice have damaged a Chester, Illinois, landmark, the First Bank building at 600 State Street, built about 1900. It seems that the 23,500 square ft. three-story building sustained damage to its roof from heavy accumulations of Continue reading Roof Collapse at Randolph County Genealogical Society