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400 Years of NARA War Records Now Online at Commercial Site
Ancestry.com is making available "more than 90 million U.S. war records from the first English settlement at Jamestown in 1607 through the Vietnam War's end in 1975. The collection includes the names and gravestone details of 3.5 million deceased U.S. soldiers, including 2,000 who died in Iraq." Users can pay $155.40 a year for unlimited access.
- Dot-com to unveil 4 centuries of military records, by Donna Borak, Associated Press, Sunday, May 27, 2007.
The records came from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and include "37 million images, draft registration cards from both world wars, military yearbooks, prisoner-of-war records from four wars, unit rosters from the Marine Corps from 1893 through 1958, and Civil War pension records, among others." Ancestry.com spent $3 million to digitize the military records.
Budget constraints and a long list of unfinished priorities have limited federal efforts to make roughly 9 billion public documents available online, said National Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper. "In a perfect world, we would do all this ourselves and it would be up there for free," she said. "While we continue to work to make our materials accessible as widely as possible, we can't do everything."Continue reading
NARA films from Google
Google Video: NARA Google Video offers films from the National Archives & Records Administration. Featured films include: NASA History of Space Flight Motion Pictures, 1962-1981 United Newsreel Motion Pictures, 1942-1945 WWII war theatres and homefront newsreels Department of the Interior parks, public lands and Native American lands Continue reading
100 Milestone Documents
One of my new favorite sites is 100 Milestone Documents This page from ourdocuments.gov is a compilation of 100 documents from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that highlight key events in U.S. history (1776-1965). Each document includes an image, description and transcript. Continue reading
More than 1 Million Pages of Historical Government Documents Removed from Public View Since 9/11
From the AP article: Government guards papers from public eye
More than 1 million pages of historical government documents -- a stack taller than the U.S. Capitol -- have been removed from public view since the September 2001 terror attacks, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. Some of the papers are more than a century old. In some cases, entire file boxes were removed without significant review because the government's central record-keeping agency, the National Archives and Records Administration, did not have time for a more thorough audit. "We just felt we couldn't take the time and didn't always have the expertise," said Steve Tilley, who oversaw the program. Archives officials are still screening records, but the number of files pulled recently has declined dramatically, he said.Continue reading
NARA to release ERA in September
Wade-Hahn Chan reported in Federal Computer Week this week that the first part of the Electronic Records Archives (ERA) will make its debut in September. ERA is the system that the National Archives is designing to preserve the federal government's electronic records. The first release, according to NARA CIO Martha Morphy, will allow federal agencies to transfer their electronic records directly to the ERA. Four agencies currently submit their records to NARA for archiving; in addition, NARA's Electronic Records Management Initiative has provided all agencies with information on how to handle the formating of electronic documents. The White House has requested a $12 million increase in the budget for ERA for FY2008. Speaking of the Bush administration, a second version of ERA will be developed for the George W. Bush Presidential Library to archive the administration's electronic records. The FY2008 budget requests $38 million to archive these documents. You can learn a bit more about ERA in a video [WMV] linked to on the project's website. I found the FCW article at the eGovernment Resource Centre. Continue reading
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