PUBLIC ACCESS
The U.S. National Archives (NARA) is the custodian for billions of records, many of them available to genealogy researchers. Not all of NARA’s records (most of which were generated by the federal government) are available online, but the organization has published some collections and record sets on its robust website, Archives.gov <www.archives.gov>. Among its digitized resources are indexes, finding aids and actual record images, some of which can’t be found anywhere else online.
The NARA website is so large that I find something new every time I go there, either about my family or about an historical event that took place where I live. That makes it one of my
