Sometimes research involves looking under rocks Don't forget this one There are 105,000 of microfilm underneath National National Archives and Records Service (NEPS) DECLASSIFIED RECORDS Every government department that originates classified information or material is now required to establish a data index system for top secret, secret, and confidential information in selected categories approved by the Interagency Classification Review Committee as having historical or other value such as to make it appropriate for preservation. Each department is required to submit to the committee on September 1, annually, a list of those indexed documents that were declassified on or before December 31 of the previous calendar year. The committee maintains the lists in the central research room of the National Archives building where they may be copied or reviewed by the public during business hours. The Records Declassification Division systematically reviews the security classifications of documents accessioned by the National Archives, primarily World War II records that are more than thirty years old. Researchers should address any questions about the records to the unit holding them and should bear in mind that other restrictions may remain in effect and prevent the release of some records even though they have been declassified. Significant records reviewed since November 1975 or presently being declassified are described below. GENERAL ARCHIVES DIVISION Review of the pre-1946 records of the State Department's foreign service posts, 1,037 cubic feet, has been completed. Files reviewed during the quarter include those of posts in London, Lisbon, Madrid, Rome, and Rio de Janeiro. Two major files of pre-1946 records of the War Department's intelligence staff (G-2), have been reviewed: the Intelligence Documents ("ID") Files, 516 cubic feet; and the Administrative Division's confidential and secret teletype conferences, 85 cubic feet. CIVIL ARCHIVES DIVISION NATURAL RESOURCES BRANCH Files of N. H. Collisson, special assistant to the secretary of the interior, 1947-49, 8 cubic feet, have been reviewed and largely declassified. DIPLOMATIC BRANCH Review of selected files of the Department of State's decimal files, 1945-49, continued during the period. State Department files of the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee, 1941-49, have been almost completely reviewed during the past quarter. MILITARY ARCHIVES DIVISION MODERN MILITARY BRANCH Armed guard files, 249 cubic feet, of the Naval Transportation Service Division, 1940-45, have been declassified. Pre-1946 records of the Budget Estimates Group, Budget Division, War Department Special Staff, 53 cubic feet, have been reviewed and largely declassified. Several files of the United States counsel for the prosecution of axis criminality and the United States military tribunals at Nuernberg, including 16 feet of files of interrogations, relating to war crimes, received from Allied military agencies have been reviewed and largely declassified. Review of the World War II period confidential and secret message files of the War Plans Division/Operations and Plans Division continued during the quarter. WHAT DO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, BENNY GOODMAN, EDWARD STEICHEN, AND THE 1790 CENSUS REPORT HAVE IN COMMON? ASSOCIATES OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES KNOW. They discover these and other documents, films, sound recordings, photographs, charts, and maps in the National Archives and Records Service. Lectures, seminars, film showings, exhibition openings, special events, publications, and microfilm discounts offer Associates a special opportunity to delve into the American past as it is reflected in the rich and diverse holdings of the National Archives. Entitles all members of the immediate family to membership privileges. This includes two adults, and children under 18 years of age. One Prologue subscription per family. NATIONAL ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP 12.50 For those interested persons living outside of the Washington STUDENT MEMBERSHIP 10.00 Persons applying for this category must send copies of their SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP.. 50.00 Sustaining members receive a certificate of appreciation, special previews of exhibitions, and one Archives publication. CONTRIBUTING MEMBERSHIP 100.00 Contributing members are invited to special previews of exhibitions. Additional benefits include a certificate of appreciation, and two Archives publications. FOUNDING MEMBERSHIP 500.00 Founding members are honored with life membership, a Sustaining, Contributing and Founding memberships receive the same For further information on membership call (202) 523-3183 or write: Associates of the National Archives, Room G-9, National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D. C. 20408. PUBLICATIONS OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE The National Archives and Records Service publishes a variety of descriptions and guides to its holdings that are of use to scholars and the general public. These include inventories of record groups, special lists, and reference information papers. Inventories are general descriptions of and guides to documents in a record group. They provide a brief history of the agency that created the records and describe each series of records. Frequently, the National Archives publishes a preliminary inventory of a record group to facilitate access to its holdings. Preliminary inventories are less detailed than inventories but are similar in format. Special lists are detailed descriptions of a series of records within a record group or of a subject or activity of an agency. Reference information papers describe material on a given subject that may be found in several record groups. As a rule these lists and papers follow no established form but vary according to the nature of the records to which they relate. Earlier publications are listed in the leaflet Select List of Publications of the National Archives and Records Service. Microfilm publications may be purchased from the Publications Sales Branch (NEPS), National Archives (GSA), Washington, DC 20408, for $12.00 per roll. Most other publications may be obtained from the same branch at no cost. MICROFILM PUBLICATIONS Computer-Processed Tabulations of Data From Seamen's Protective Certificate Applications to the Collector of Customs for the Port of Philadelphia, 1812-15 (M972, 1 roll), introduction by James Harwood, reproduces data that resulted from a research project by Ira Dye, supported by the American Philosophical Society (see Prologue, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 3-13). These applications cover most of 1812, all of 1813 and 1814, and the second quarter of 1815. The certificates were intended as proof of citizenship and were used to protect American seamen from impressment by British officers who boarded American vessels, ostensibly in search of British citizens. Identifying physical characteristics for seven hundred ninety applicants are given in this publication. PRELIMINARY INVENTORIES Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the 1965 Inaugural Committee (PI 182), compiled by William A. Reader (19 pages, Record Group 274). GENERAL INFORMATION LEAFLETS The Territorial Papers of the United StatesGIL no. 12. Location of Records and Fees for Reproduction Services in the National Archives and Records Service-GIL no. 14. National Archives and Records Service Microfilm Publications-GIL no. 24, revised. REFERENCE INFORMATION PAPERS Records and Policies of the Post Office Department Relating to Place-Names (RIP 72), compiled by Arthur Hecht and William J. Heynen (16 pages). Audiovisual Records Relating to Naval History (RIP 73), compiled by Mayfield Bray, Franklin W. Burch, Maygene Daniels, and James Trimble (12 pages). Recordkeeping in the Department of State, 1789-1956 (RIP 74), compiled by Stephen H. Helton (36 pages). SPECIAL LISTS Special List no. 26, Pre-Federal Maps in the National Archives: an Annotated List, compiled by Patrick D. McLaughlin, has been revised by the compiler. Most maps of North America in use during the Revolutionary War era were British, but significant maps were also made at this time by native Americans or Europeans who settled in the colonies. Many of these early maps were accumulated by the Corps of Engineers of the army. Other important maps were obtained by American diplomats in their dealings with the British. Still another group of maps was kept among records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses. Copies of most of the maps described in this list, compiled from a dozen different record groups, may be obtained from the National Archives for a fee. MISCELLANEOUS Records of German Field Commands: Divisions (221st-255th), Part X, which is no. 70 of the series of guides to German records microfilmed at Alexandria, Virginia, has been published. Guide no. 70 (designated part X of the guides to German army divisions-parts I-IX being guides 41, 45, and 63-69) describes the records of divisions numbered 221 through 255, reproduced on the 130 rolls of Microfilm Publication T315. The records include material on forming and training the units; border security in Germany in 1939, 1941, and 1943, and in Norway in 1942; the campaign in Poland, 1939; assembly, occupation and security duty, training, and antipartisan, operations in Poland, 1939-41; the campaign in Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, 1940; occupation and security duty and coastal defense in Belgium and France, 1940-41; the invasion of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, 1941; training in Rumania, 1941; the campaign against the Soviet Union, 1941-44; and coastal defense and training in Belgium and France, 1943. PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED MATERIALS The National Archives and Records Service has a large backlist of microfilm publications. The following materials, relating to the Revolutionary War, are also available from the Publications Sales Branch. General Index to Compiled Military Service Records of Revolutionary War Soldiers. T515. 58 rolls. General Orders Kept by General William Heath, May 23, 1777-October 20, 1778. T42. 1 roll. Index to Compiled Military Service Records of Revolutionary War Naval Personnel. T516. 1 roll. Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Revolutionary War in Organizations From the State of North Carolina. M257. 2 rolls. Order Book of Lt. Nathaniel Nason, Yorktown Campaign, 1781. T281. 1 roll. Register of Army Land Warrants Issued Under the Act of 1788 for Service in the Revolutionary War: Military District of Ohio. T1008. 1 roll. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900. M804. 2,107 rolls. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-83. M246. 138 rolls. Selected Records From Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900. M805. 711 rolls. С |