FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 30, 2012
National Archives Puts More Popular Records Workshops Online
More “Know Your Records” videos now available on National Archives’ YouTube Channel
Washington,
DC… The National Archives has launched new online videos of its most
popular genealogy “how to” workshops. These videos cover “hot topics” in
genealogical research such as Civil War records, online resources and
databases, and more. These workshops led by National Archives experts
are available on the National Archives YouTube channel at http://tinyurl.com/NARAGenie.
The National Archives–produced Know Your Records
video shorts cover the creation, scope, content, and use of National
Archives records for genealogical research. “We are happy to make more
of our most popular genealogy lectures available online. We welcome
researcher feedback and will continue to make more workshops available
online for free for viewing by anyone, anywhere, at any time,” said
Diane Dimkoff, Director of Customer Services.
For the first time, researchers and staff voted for their favorite topics—and the National Archives listened:
National
Archives electronic records expert Dan Law discusses using electronic
records for genealogy research and shows how to access such records
using the National Archives Access to Archival Databases (AAD) online
search engine.
National
Archives genealogy expert John Deeben explores War Department death
records created during and after the Civil War. These records show how
the government documented personal circumstances of soldiers’ deaths on
the battlefield, in military hospitals, and in prisons.
Let No Man Put Asunder: Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records (1:12:09) http://tinyurl.com/ FreedmensBur
National
Archives archivist Reginald Washington explores marriage records from
the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (the Freedmen's
Bureau). The Freedmen’s Bureau provided assistance to tens of thousands
of former slaves and impoverished whites in the Southern states and the
District of Columbia. These records from 1865 through 1872 constitute
the richest and most extensive documentary source for investigating the
African American experience in the post–Civil War and Reconstruction
eras.
Over
2.8 million men (and a few hundred women) served in the Union and
Confederate armies during the Civil War. National Archives genealogy
expert John Deeben demonstrates how to research and use Civil War Army
service records.
Exodus to Kansas: The 1880 Senate Investigation of the Beginnings of the African American Migration from the South (1:05:26) http://tinyurl.com/Exoduster
National Archives archivist Damani
Davis examines Federal records relating to the “Kansas Exodus” (the
so-called “Exoduster” movement), which was the first instance of
voluntary, mass migration among African Americans. This mass exodus
generated considerable attention throughout the nation and resulted in a
major 1880 Senate investigation. For more information, see http://www.archives.gov/ publications/prologue/2008/ summer/exodus.html.
Ancestry.com
has digitized selected National Archives microfilm publications and
original records and made them available on their web sites for a fee. Lead Family Historian for Ancestry.com Anastasia Harman discusses these records and their use for genealogy research. Access
to Ancestry.com and Fold3 (formerly Footnote.com) is available free of
charge in all National Archives Research Rooms, including those in our
regional archives and Presidential Libraries. For a list of National
Archives records available online through Ancestry.com and other
digitization partners, see http://www.archives.gov/ digitization/digitized-by- partners.html.
Background on “Know Your Records” programs
The
National Archives holds the permanently valuable records of the Federal
Government. These include records of interest to genealogists, such as
pension files, ship passenger lists, census and Freedmen’s Bureau
materials. The “Know Your Records Program” offers opportunities for
staff, volunteers, and researchers to learn about these records through
lectures, ongoing genealogy programs, workshops, symposia, the annual genealogy fair, an online genealogy tutorial, reference reports for genealogical research, and editions of Researcher News for Washington, DC, area researchers.
1 comment:
Thanks for letting us know about this, Paula! Chris posted this on the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society's Facebook page.
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