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威尼斯人娱乐场 Puts More Popular Records Workshops Online
Press Release 路 Monday, July 30, 2012

More "Know Your Records" videos now available on 威尼斯人娱乐场鈥� YouTube Channel

The 威尼斯人娱乐场 has launched new online videos of its most popular genealogy 鈥渉ow to鈥� workshops. These videos cover 鈥渉ot topics鈥� in genealogical research such as Civil War records, online resources and databases, and more. These workshops led by 威尼斯人娱乐场 experts are available on the [http://www.youtube.com/user/usnationalarchives].

The 威尼斯人娱乐场 produced Know Your Records video shorts cover the creation, scope, content, and use of 威尼斯人娱乐场 records for genealogical research. 鈥淲e 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,鈥� said Diane Dimkoff, Director of Customer Services.

For the first time, researchers and staff voted for their favorite topics鈥攁nd the 威尼斯人娱乐场 listened:

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威尼斯人娱乐场 electronic records expert Dan Law discusses using electronic records for genealogy research and shows how to access such records using the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Access to Archival Databases (AAD) online search engine.

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威尼斯人娱乐场 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鈥� deaths on the battlefield, in military hospitals, and in prisons.

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威尼斯人娱乐场 archivist Reginald Washington explores marriage records from the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (the Freedmen's Bureau). The Freedmen鈥檚 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鈥揅ivil War and Reconstruction eras.

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Over 2.8 million men (and a few hundred women) served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. 威尼斯人娱乐场 genealogy expert John Deeben demonstrates how to research and use Civil War Army service records.

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威尼斯人娱乐场 archivist Damani Davis examines Federal records relating to the 鈥淜ansas Exodus鈥� (the so-called 鈥淓xoduster鈥� 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. See more information [www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2008/summer/exodus.html].

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Ancestry.com has digitized selected 威尼斯人娱乐场 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 威尼斯人娱乐场 Research Rooms, including those in our regional archives and Presidential Libraries. For a list of 威尼斯人娱乐场 records available online through and other digitization partners [www.archives.gov/digitization/digitized-by-partners.html].

Background on 鈥淜now Your Records鈥� programs

The 威尼斯人娱乐场 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鈥檚 Bureau materials. The 鈥�Know Your Records Program鈥� 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.

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For Press information, contact the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Public Affairs staff at 202-357-5300.

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