National Archives at Atlanta

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:atlanta.archives@nara.gov atlanta.archives@nara.gov]

Address:


 * 5780 Jonesboro Road
 * Morrow, Georgia 30260

Telephone: voice 770-968-2100 Fax:  770-968-2547

Hours and holidays: Tuesday - Saturday, 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.


 * Closed Sundays, federal holidays, and Saturdays that precede any federal holiday observed on a Monday.

Directions, maps, and public transportation:


 * In Morrow, Georgia six miles southeast of Hartsfield Atlanta Airport. Take I-75 to Exit 233, Morrow. Turn left onto Highway 54/Jonesboro Road. Go about 1-1/2 miles to the second building on the right after Clayton State Blvd.
 * Google Map
 * Buses canceled. Clayton County Transit Bus 501 and Bus 502 on Hwy 54/Jonesboro Road are suspended.

Internet sites and databases:


 * National Archives Southeast (Atlanta) main page
 * National Archives Southeast Genealogists/Family Historians page
 * Access to Archival Databases (AAD) a search engine into some of NARA's holdings of electronic records. Search by person, geographic areas, organizations, or dates.
 * Archival Research Catalog (ARC) ARC is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings, describing over 63% of their holdings. Searches by keywords, by location, organization, person, or topics, and for digitized images.
 * Archives Library Information Center (ALIC) The Reference at Your Desk feature provides quick access to online resources on many diverse subjects.

Collection Description
Frequently used genealogy sources include censuses and indexes 1790-1930, immigration ship passenger arrivals for the Eastern and Gulf Coasts 1820-1982, military service records, pensions, bounty land warrants, and indexes 1775-1902, Federal naturalization records of U.S. District Courts of Southeast states, land records, bankruptcies 1940-1998, passport applications, Native American 1893 Dawes Commission records, and African American records including Freedmen's Bank depositors, Freedman's Bureau records, and slave manifests in Mobile 1820-1860, and Savannah 1801-1860. The Archives also provides free Internet access to subscription sites like Ancestry.com, Footnote.com, and HeritageQuestOnline.com. Other records at the Archives are postmaster lists, Southeast states 1865-1866 federal tax lists, Atlanta federal penitentiary inmates 1902-1921, the Tennessee Valley Authority since 1933, draft registrations for World War I and World War II. They also offer genealogical classes and workshops, and have a list of independent researchers for hire.

Tips
Over 68% of the Regional Archives' records are currently described in ARC at the series level. If you do not find the records you are seeking, please contact the Southeast Region staff.

Guides

 * National Archives Southeast Region (Atlanta), Family History Sources. Brochure about significant collections.
 * Federal Records Guide Search NARA's holdings of federal records at a very high level, to identify which record groups may have material relevant to your research topics. Alphabetical index to the Federal Records Guide. Record Groups by topic clusters in the Federal Records Guide.
 * Other finding aids and guides by topic for the National Archives Southeast Region.

Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a record at the , a similar record may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service &amp; pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees.
 * National Archives II Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, and Treasury all after 1900.

Similar Collections


 * Federal Records Center, Ellenwood, GA., receives records primarily from Federal agencies located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
 * National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, MO., has millions of military personnel, health, medical records of discharged and deceased veterans of all services starting with World War I, and federal employee records.
 * Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, Mormon records.

Neighboring Collections


 * Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, Central Library has county and family histories, census, passenger lists, wills, land, military, directories, newspapers, Ancestry.com. Auburn Avenue Library has African American material.
 * Georgia Archives, Morrow, genealogies, county histories, newspapers, tax digests, private papers, church records, cemeteries, Bible records, a few municipal records, census, maps, land plats, photographs, Georgia Confederate service and pension records, colonial, headright, and bounty land grants, land lottery, and Georgia county records.
 * Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center, extensive Georgia family and county histories, Sons of the American Revolution library, holdings for North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama genealogy.
 * Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Atlanta, members, meetings, newsletter, surname queries, links.
 * Jewish Genealogical Soc. of Georgia, Atlanta, family histories, immigration, East Europe, Georgia, North America.
 * Atlanta Area Family History Centers, can order microfilms from Salt Lake City for a small fee.
 * Fulton County Health Department, births since 1896, deaths since 1887.
 * Fulton County Clerk of the Probate Court, marriages and probates since 1854.
 * Fulton County Clerk of the Superior Court, court records, land records, and divorces since 1854.
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: Campbell, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, and Spalding.
 * Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, 4 million manuscripts, photos, papers, military, diaries, plantation records.
 * Georgia Genealogical Society, Rome, events, meetings, membership, publications and index, and research tools.
 * Repositories in other surrounding states: Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama.
 * National Archives Southwest Region (Ft. Worth), censuses, military records, passenger lists, Dawes Commission Indian records, 84,000 cubic feet of documents, photos, and maps, slavery, oil, and space program.
 * National Archives Central Plains Region (Kansas City), MO., censuses, military service, pension, and bounty-land applications, bankruptcy and court records, 35,000 cubic feet of documents, photos, and maps.
 * National Archives Great Lakes Region (Chicago), censuses, military pension and bounty-land applications, bankruptcy and court records, naturalization indexes, Indian censuses of MI, MN, WI, soldier home files.
 * National Archives—Regional Branches in other regions.
 * Allen County Public Library (Indiana) has a premier genealogical periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, American Indians, African Americans, Canadians.
 * Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, MO, national censuses/indexes, 80,000 family histories, 100,000 local histories, 565,000 microfilms, 7,000 maps, and extensive newspaper clippings.
 * Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research, Houston TX, newspapers, American Civil War, Biography and Genealogy Master Index, Black Studies, Ancestry.com, HeritageQuestOnline, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.