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:*A National Archives (NARA) descriptive pamphlet (DP) provides helpful information about a microfilm set such as an explanation about the records on the film set, their origin, and a roll-by-roll descriptive list. Reviewing a DP prior to using a film set can increase a researcher's ability to use it successfully in a time-efficient manner.  The Special Collections of the [http://www.slcl.org/branches/hq/sc/dps/dplist.htm St. Louis County Library ]has placed on their web site full-text or PDF versions of DPs for some of the NARA microfilm sets.

The National Archives has a list of [http://www.archives.gov/digitization/digitized-by-partners.html digitized records] and links to access them through online databases. It includes pay sites such as Ancestry and Fold3.com that have partnered with the National Archives to digitize many of the archives' records. Read more about the [http://www.archives.gov/digitization digitization program] at the National Archives.

Regional branches of the National Archives collect records of federal government offices and courts within the area they serve. These branches are located in or near [[National Archives Pacific Alaska Region (Anchorage)|Anchorage]], [[National Archives Southeast Region (Atlanta)|Atlanta]], [[National Archives Northeast Region (Boston)|Boston]], [[National Archives Great Lakes Region (Chicago)|Chicago]], [[National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (Denver)|Denver]], [[National Archives Southwest Region (Ft. Worth)|Fort Worth]], [http://www.archives.gov/central-plains/kansas-city/index.html Kansas City], [http://www.archives.gov/pacific/riverside/ Los Angeles], [http://www.archives.gov/northeast/nyc/index.html New York] (moving soon), [[National Archives Mid Atlantic Region (Philadelphia)|Philadelphia]], [http://www.archives.gov/pacific/san-francisco/index.html San Francisco], and [http://www.archives.gov/pacific-alaska/seattle/index.html Seattle].