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The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
... his position as the new international standard cunt on Dec. 1st, when he will be deposited in the National Archives in Paris for reference, alongside such global standards as the meter, the gramme and the ampere. Gordon will be kept in an atmospherically controlled glass cabinet bearing a brass plaque reading LE CONN which is French for cunt. A spokesperson for the National...
craigblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hey, the folks at the US National Archives are figuring out really smart ways to do the job better. For example, they're soliciting feedback from the public like Question: What tools and processes do you suggest we use to transcribe...
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Genealogy Blog:- The Visible Archive is a research project on the visualization of the huge museum collection currently held by the National Archives of Australia.
The Boomer Chronicles (Free subscription) | yesterday
Can you imagine being a librarian or archivist and getting the best job in the country? Well, it’s happened to a man named David S. Ferriero, who has been confirmed as Archivist of the United States at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Ferriero was nominated by President Obama in July. Ferriero will become just [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
This in-depth report looks the the Center for Legislative Archives. From the Article: Handling congressional papers is no easy task. While presidential libraries maintain a relatively static collection, the Center for Legislative Archives’ holdings increase every time Congress passes a bill, discusses proposed legislation, confirms a presidential appointee, or does anything at all....
Fashiontribes.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Brioni Archives Recognized as an Italian Cultural Treasure
Legal History Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The National Archives, in conjunction with the Freedom Forum’s First Amendment Center, will be hosting a panel, Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the Law and the 21st Century, to be held at the Archives’s William G. McGowan Theater, 7th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., on Thursday, November 19, at 7 p.m.According to the announcement:As...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
National Archives: Progress and Risks in Implementing its Electronic Records Archive Initiative (PDF: 154 KB) From Highlights (PDF; 45 KB): NARA has completed two of five planned increments of ERA, but has experienced schedule delays and cost overruns, and several functions planned for the system’s initial release were deferred. Although NARA initially planned for...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... sources like books and news articles. This guide, Effective FOIA Requesting for Everyone: A National Security Archive Guide, provides a comprehensive overview of how to obtain documents from federal executive branch agencies. It focuses primarily on the Freedom of Information Act process. But it also briefly treats other means of accessing government records, including through publicly...
PortlandOnline (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
[- November is Native American Heritage Month -]The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans.[- Sculptor Brian...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
If Armistice Day pricks your curiosity about what your ancestors did in the world wars, there are many avenues of archives to explore.
Family Research (Free subscription) | yesterday
These maps are among the best known and most frequently consulted maps in The National Archives. You can search and download more than 60 different maps depicting plantations, fortifications and townships in Ireland during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. They are among the earliest cartographic representations of Ireland and include the famous [...]
Atomic Insights Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
In the past couple of days, I have noticed a significant increase in the amount of highly visible outdoor marketing in Washington, DC that is touting the benefits of burning methane, which is sold under the brand name of "clean, natural gas." At the corner of 7th Street and Pennsylvania Ave., right across the street from the National Archives, there is a bus station that I see...
Family Research (Free subscription) | yesterday
In partnership with The National Archives, Ancestry.co.uk has now made available online the entire collection of British Army World War One Service Records, 1914-1920, detailing the full military careers of more than two million soldiers who served during World War One. for more click here
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (Free subscription) | yesterday
Genea-Musings:- Joel Weintraub kindly forwarded a link to the U.S. National Archives web page for the 1940 census -- http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/census/1940/ .
