United States Occupation Record Resources (National Institute)

Resources
FamilySearch Catalog

National Archives and Records Administration

Library of Congress

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collection

PERSI

Cornell University Library Digital Collection

Making of America Cornell University University of Michigan

Start Spot Network Libraries (national, state, academic, public, etc)

State Archives are under the State Genealogy Section (just click on state to locate URL)

Further Reading

Courses and books offered by National Institute of Genealogical Studies

Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, 3 volumes (Washington DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 1996).

Guide To Genealogical Research in the National Archives of the United States, 3rd Edition, edited by Anne Bruner Eales and Robert M. Kvasnicka (Washington DC, National Archives and Records Administration, 2000).

Meyerink, Kory L. and Cerny, Johni. “Research in Business, Employment, and Institutional Records”. In The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, revised edition, edited by Loretto Dennis Suzucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking. Salt Lake City, Utah. Ancestry Incorporated, 1997.

Meyerink, Kory L, edited. Printed Sources: A Guide to Published Genealogical. Salt Lake City, Utah. Ancestry Incorporated, 1998.

Pfeiffer, Laura Szucs, Hidden Sources Family History in Unlikely Places. Orem, Utah. MyFamily.com. Inc (Ancestry Publishing), 2000.


 * National Institute of Genealogical Research Held in Washington D.C. each July P.O. Box 118 Greenbelt, Maryland 20768-0118


 * RIGS Alliance, Inc. Workshop at regional archives P.O. Box 1273 Jasper, Georgia 30143

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