From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat Jan 1 12:32:27 2005 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j01JWRhh032333; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 12:32:27 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j01JWQxt009307 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 12:32:26 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j01IHdtW014233 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:17:39 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id j01IHd6d014232 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:17:39 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j01GdZtW013879 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 11:39:35 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id j01HsCXR026692 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 10:54:12 -0700 X-Envelope-From: joe@genesearch.com Sat Jan 1 10:54:12 2005 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j01HsChh026683 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 10:54:12 -0700 Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.117]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j01HsBxt019975 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 10:54:11 -0700 Received: from [12.73.168.30] (30.denver-21-23rs.co.dial-access.att.net[12.73.168.30]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13) with SMTP id <200501011754101130053r1te>; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:54:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200501011115.j01BFwhj007700@lists5.rootsweb.com> References: <200501011115.j01BFwhj007700@lists5.rootsweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: joe Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 10:57:48 -0700 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: NARA Hello Joanne, NARA = National Archives and Records Administration. It is the repository for federally produced records in the USA. They have many records helpful to genealogists, including census, immigration (passenger lists) and some naturalization records. Here is a link to the genealogy section of their website... http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/ Some of their microfilm publications can be found at one of the NARA branches... http://www.archives.gov/facilities/ Some of them can also be found at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City and these can be ordered for viewing from local Family History Centers for a fee. Good luck with your searches. Regards, Joe -- Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records http://www.deathindexes.com/ Joanne Lancaster wrote: > What does NARA mean. I'm fairly new to researching and have seen this > a number of times. > > JRL35@homexpressway.net