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Family History Sources

Posted by Jason D. Phillips at 3:37 PM


National Archives, Southeast Region (Atlanta). Family History Sources. Morrow, GA: National Archives, Southeast Region, 2008. SUDOC: AE 1.113:80

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the custodian of the federal government’s records, some of which are useful to people seeking information about their family’s history. The Southeast Region has custody of records from federal offices in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Examples of resources available: Original Naturalization Records; Slave Manifests; Tennessee Valley Authority; Draft Registration Cards; Military Service and Pension and Bounty Land Application Records; Census Records; Passenger Arrival; Freedman’s Bureau; and Native American Records.

Records NOT kept by NARA: Vital records (birth, death, marriage, or divorce); state or local records; records from the colonial period (1607 – 1789); and church records.

This pamphlet is available online at: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS104335

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