National Archives at Fort Worth: Difference between revisions

add links
(collection)
(add links)
Line 46: Line 46:
=== Collection Description  ===
=== Collection Description  ===


Serves Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.<ref>"Services for Federal Agencies" in ''The National Archives at Fort Worth'' at http://www.archives.gov/southwest/agencies/ (accessed 23 December 2010).</ref> Includes federal censuses of all states, 1790-1930 (and indexes for 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920); military service records, pension and bounty land warrant applications; passenger arrivals; Dawes Commision for the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. Manuscripts, photos, maps received from federal district and bankruptcy courts and 85 federal agencies in four states. Subjects emphasized are regional and national history, westward expansion and Southwest settlement, American Indians (especially Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles), Revolutionary War, American Civil War and Recontruction, slavery, Chinese exclusion, segregation, World Wars I and II, economic development, oil, U.S. space program, public administration, political science, law, ethnology, and U.S. diplomacy.<ref>"Research at the Archives Facility" in ''The National Archives at Fort Worth'' at http://www.archives.gov/southwest/public/research.html (accessed 23 December 2010).</ref>  
Serves [[Arkansas|Arkansas]], [[Louisiana|Louisiana]], [[Oklahoma|Oklahoma]], and [[Texas|Texas]].<ref>"Services for Federal Agencies" in ''The National Archives at Fort Worth'' at http://www.archives.gov/southwest/agencies/ (accessed 23 December 2010).</ref> Includes [[United States Census|federal '''censuses''']] of all states, 1790-1930 (and indexes for 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920); '''military''' [[US Military Service Records|service records]], [[US Military Pension Records|pension]] and [[US Military Bounty Land Warrants|bounty land warrant]] applications; '''[[US Immigration Passenger Arrival Records|passenger arrivals]]'''; '''[[Dawes Commission Enrollment Records for Five U.S. Indian Tribes|Dawes Commision]]''' for the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. Manuscripts, photos, maps received from federal district and bankruptcy '''courts''' and '''85 federal agencies''' in four states. Subjects emphasized are regional and national history, '''westward expansion''' and '''Southwest settlement''', '''[[American Indian Genealogy|American Indians]]''' (especially Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles), [[Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783|Revolutionary War]], American [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865|Civil War]] and Recontruction, '''[[African_American_Slavery_and_Bondage|slavery]]''', Chinese exclusion, segregation, [[World_War_I_United_States_Military_Records,_1917_to_1918|World War I]], [[World_War_II_United_States_Military_Records,_1941_to_1945|World War II]], economic development, oil, U.S. space program, public administration, political science, law, ethnology, and U.S. diplomacy.<ref>"Research at the Archives Facility" in ''The National Archives at Fort Worth'' at http://www.archives.gov/southwest/public/research.html (accessed 23 December 2010).</ref>


=== Tips  ===
=== Tips  ===
73,385

edits