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 *'''Archives I''' has nationwide censuses, pre-WWI military service and pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees. The National Archives Building in Washington, DC (Archives I), houses textual and microfilm records relating to genealogy, American Indians, pre-World War II military and naval-maritime matters, the New Deal, the District of Columbia, the Federal courts, and Congress.<ref>[http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/washington/researcher-info.html Information for Researchers at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC] in ''National Archives'' (accessed 31 December 2013).</ref>
 *Microfilm copies of many of the records at the National Archives are available at the [https://www.familysearch.org/en/library/ FamilySearch Library], other major archives and libraries, and at regional branches of the National Archives. You may purchase microfilms from the National Archives or request photocopies of the records by using forms obtained from the Archives.
-::*Eales, Anne Bruner and Robert M. Kvasnicka, ed. ''Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives of the United States''. Third Edition. Washington, DC: Nathional Archives and Records Administration, 2000. ([http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3AGuide+to+Genealogical+Research+in+the+National+Archives+of+the+United+States Worldcat]) Explains records collections&nbsp;used most by&nbsp;genealogical researchers: Census, Passenger Arrivals and Border Crossings, Naturalizations, Military, Land, Native Americans, African Americans, and more.
-::*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.&nbsp; The Special Collections of the [https://www.slcl.org/content/history-genealogy St. Louis County Library ]has placed on their web site full-text or PDF versions of DPs for some of the NARA microfilm sets.
-:'''Digitized NARA Microfilm Publications'''
-::[http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/30/us-national-archives-to-upload-all-holdings-to-wikimedia-commons/ "US National Archives To Upload All Holdings To Wikimedia Commons" ]
-::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.
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