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National Archives (NARA I) www.nara.gov, at 700 Pennsylvania Ave. Enter Pennsylvania Avenue near 9th. Open Mon., Weds.: 8:45 am to 5 pm; Tues., Thurs., Friday: 8:45 am to 9 pm. See article from June 2004 issue of Family Tree Magazine. Please familiarize yourself with the research procedures at Things you will find at the National Archives: Passenger arrivals and border crossings, Naturalization records, Census records for all states (including Agricultural, Mortality, Industry/Manufacturers and Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes), Passport Records, Records of the Regular Army, Service Records of Volunteers, Naval and Marine Service Records, Pension Records, Bounty Land Warrant Records, Records of Native Americans, African Americans, Merchant Seamen, Civilian Government Employees, Land Records, Claims Records, Tax Records including 1798 Direct Tax list for PA and Tax Assessment Lists for the Civil War period. You can review the card catalog of microfilms at
National Archives - College Park (NARA II) NARA II – College Park: http://www.archives.gov/facilities/md/archives_2.html Bus Service: Staff shuttle bus
Special to this facility is the cartographic division: enumeration district maps, township survey plats, U.S. Land district maps, military maps, and maps pertaining to American Indians.
DAR Library DAR Library (not just for Daughters of the American Revolution!) Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., $6 admission fee for non-DAR members. No pocket knives. Please review research procedures at www.dar.org/library/beginners.cfm You can use the card catalog at http://dar.library.net/ and plan your research. Don’t miss the GRC records indexed at http://grc.dar.org/dar/darnet/grc/grc.cfm containing manuscripts arranged by state that include unique material submitted by each DAR chapter since the 1910s and containing over 7,000,000 names in such records as cemetery inscriptions, military records and bible records. Holdings include unique abstracts done by each DAR chapter each year for their area such as cemetery readings and Bible records; DAR lineage papers. Open stacks are organized by geography or alphabetical by predominant surname for family histories.
Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave. SE, www.loc.gov Monday, Wednesday, Thursday: 8:30am - 9:30pm Please explore the information for visitors including how to acquire the required readers’ registration card at http://www.loc.gov/rr/security. Don’t miss the Geography and map room, the Newspaper Reading room, and Local History and Genealogy Reading room (for more info see the Reading Room link at www.loc.gov/rr/main/inforeas) and www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy Open 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday; from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday. Local History and Genealogy (LH&G) Reading Room is on the ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, Room LJ G42. A Reader Registration Card is required to use the Library’s reading rooms. This card may be obtained in the James Madison Building, Room LM 140. You must present ID that includes a photograph and current address, such as a driver’s license, or passport. Mostly closed stacks: use call slips to access. Some reference materials on open stacks. Photocopy machines in room operated by coins or copy card. Holdings include: Maps (Madison Bldg.) has detailed world maps. Assistance is available in determining geographic boundary changes. Some maps downloadable to 3.5” floppy or zip drive. US telephone and city directories; foreign telephone and city directories including Canada, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Russia, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia; published genealogies, county histories; published ships’ lists; Ancestry.com; newspapers and periodicals (many indexed in PERSI) Family Name Index (white labels) family names found on the title page (no more than 3) Analyzed Surname Index (green labels): selective county histories and biographies; last drawer identifies the county histories that are covered. Coats of Arms Index (white labels) guide to illustrations of coats of arms US Biographical Index (pink labels) indexes individuals; first drawer lists Books Indexed US Local History Shelflist (white labels) lists histories numerically from F1 to F1000
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