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NATIONAL ARCHIVES at ATLANTA
5780 Jonesboro Road Morrow, Georgia 30260
EXPLORE FEDERAL RECORDS OF THE SOUTHEAST REGION FROM
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Mississippi • North Carolina • South Carolina • Tennessee
NATIONAL ARCHIVES at
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Directions
e facility is located in Morrow, Georgia, approximately 10
miles south of Hartseld Atlanta Airport.
From downtown Atlanta, take I-75 South to Exit 233,
Morrow. Turn le onto Georgia Highway 54/Jonesboro
Road. Travel approximately 1½ miles. e National
Archives at Atlanta is the second building on the right aer
Clayton State Boulevard.
Contact Us!
Research hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Exhibit Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Closed Sundays, Federal holidays, and Saturdays that
precede any Federal holiday which is observed on a Monday.
Hours subject to change due to special programs and weather.
Please check our web site for current hours.
Telephone: 770-968-2100
Fax: 770-968-2547
E-mail: atlanta.archives@nara.gov
Web site: www.archives.gov/southeast
General Information Leaet 47, Revised 2010
Exit 55
Jonesboro Rd/
Hwy 54
Exit 233
Morrow
Hartsfield-
Jackson
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FREE educational tours, exhibits, lectures,
public programs, workshops, and more!
www.archives.gov/southeast
at ATLANTA
v We sponsor programs that educate the public about
archives, history, genealogy, and related subjects.
v We partner with schools, colleges and universities,
historical and genealogical societies, veterans
organizations, museums, and other archives.
v We host student interns, school groups, educators, and
others who want to learn more about archives.
v We recruit and train volunteers and docents who want
to learn more about history while helping researchers.
Access is free—to documents, displays and exhibits, online
genealogy subscription services, workshops, events, and
more.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
At the National Archives in Atlanta you
can see original historical documents,
photographs, maps, drawings, artifacts,
and much more, from over 100 Federal
agencies. By law, we preserve and provide
access to permanently valuable, non-
current Federal records with historical,
legal, or fiscal value.
Special Exhibit Gallery
Our gallery hosts large, national traveling exhibits with
historical themes. Check our web site to learn what is on
display and what is coming soon.
Naturalization Ceremonies
e National Archives at Atlanta, in partnership with the
Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Service, hosts naturalization ceremonies; new
citizens take the Oath of Allegiance to the United States of
America. ese ceremonies are open to the public.
Featured Presentations
Democracy Starts Here
is 11-minute lm, produced
by the Discovery Channel, reveals how records in the
National Archives make a real dierence in the lives of
people. It is presented courtesy of the Foundation for
the National Archives.
Stories of the Great Depression is 28-minute lm,
produced by the National Archives at Atlanta, presents
stories from survivors of the Great Depression overlaid
with powerful pictures from the era. Watch as your
neighbors tell how they endured this dicult time in
American history.
Stories of the American Southeast
Attend exhibits, workshops, lectures, author
talks, and more when visiting the National
Archives at Atlanta. We oer specic activities
geared toward children and educators. We also
continue our tradition of providing monthly
genealogy and family history programs.
Discover Your Heritage
History resides in the documents, photographs, illustrations,
and artifacts of the National Archives. Take a moment
to discover your heritage through our exhibits and
programs, and you may conduct your own search in our
research rooms.
Lobby Exhibit
A permanent exhibit highlights many noteworthy and
fascinating historical documents within our collection,
covering topics such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the
people of the Tennessee Valley, court cases involving Elvis
Presley, copyright for the Louisville Slugger baseball bat,
and more. is exhibit gives a taste of many great stories
that you can nd in our 240 million pages of documents.
Consult Our Expert Staff
We are here to help you with your questions. In fact, we
encourage you to ask us questions. If you have a specic
need or just need help, our sta is here to guide you to
your answers as you get started and throughout your
exploration. If during your search you do not nd the
needle in the haystack you are seeking, you will nd
something unexpected, unique, and fascinating.
ere is no digital substitute for the experience of holding
an authentic historical record, for being on-site as you
learn from professionals how to search documents while
you discover your own connections to our nation’s past.
“It was so much fun to watch teachers
pour through les and talk about ways
that they could share this experience
with their students. Your partnership
exemplies the purposes of the Teaching
American History [TAH] grant program.”
—TAH Grant Director, Williamson County, TN
Explore the Archives!
At the National Archives You Can…
Explore Our Records
Curious about history? Writing a school paper? Searching
for information about the impact of Federal programs?
Anyone who needs historical information created
or received by the Federal Government—historians,
genealogists, lawyers, scholars, Government ocials,
environmentalists, students, veterans—anyone may search
our holdings for answers.
Our records are diverse in form and content, including
correspondence, name lists, reports, contracts, case
les, photographs, maps, posters, and drawings which
document the actions and reactions of the Government
and the American people as they dealt with issues and
events such as immigration and naturalization, the
environment, technological change, the Great Depression,
war, and the evolution of a multicultural nation.
Two public research areas are available to you—the
research room, for use of original documents from our
holdings, and the computer search room for use of online
and microlmed materials.
“Where else can the great granddaughter
of a slave, like me, sit down next to a
Civil War reenactor and talk about things
we have in common?”
—Anonymous visitor from Alabama
Discover Our Education Programs
For Students
Looking for materials to use for reports, in class, or to
support your National History Day project? Use our
records:
v as primary sources for your research or National
History Day project,
v to demonstrate or illustrate the questions or answers in
your paper, or
v to enhance your presentation
For Educators
We assist teachers and home-schooling parents in the use
of primary source documents with curriculum. Resources
permitting, we:
v teach workshops for educators at our facility or in
schools.
v provide copies or images of primary sources suitable
for use in the classroom.
v co-sponsor workshops with recipients of Teaching
American History grants.
v provide educational materials containing primary
source documents tied to state teaching standards, in
the Southeast region, for use in the classroom.
Field Trips and On-Site Visits
Refresh your learning objectives with customized eld
trips. Work with our education sta to custom-design an
interactive, hands-on learning experience that includes
a tour of exhibits with our sta. (Educators receive pre-
visit and post-visit curriculum materials.) All programs
are standards-based and emphasize cross-curricular
connections.
Primary records can support school curriculum and
cover a wide scope of topics including: the slave trade,
Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, the Great Depression,
the home front during the World Wars, the Cold War,
and the Civil Rights movement, and more.
Look for Your Family History
Your family’s story is unique. Using the National Archives
at Atlanta, you can uncover pieces of your family’s history.
You can search for clues; you do not have to be a historian;
these are your records. Guided by our expert sta available
on-site, you can use documents and online resources to
search, and perhaps nd out how your family’s story and
those of others dened the American Southeast.
We help many visitors start their own family heritage
research as they learn to use, for example, the Federal
population censuses for all states (1790–1930), World War I
dra registration cards, military service indexes, pension
indexes, passenger arrival lists, and naturalization records
for the Southeast.
We are here to help. Why wait? Contact us, visit us, or
nd us online at www.archives.gov/southeast.
Free computer access is available for researchers wanting
to view Ancestry, Heritage Quest, or Footnote for family
history.
“ank you so much for teaching our
genealogy class . . . I had a great time! I was
so excited when I found information on my
grandfather and my great grandfather.”
—Student at North Atlanta Girls School
National Archives and
Records Administration
Anyone who has cleaned out a family attic knows the
importance of keeping family records. You may have
military records from relatives who served in one of
the World Wars—or even the Civil War. Or pictures
of your great-great grandparents on the day they
became American citizens. Now imagine the task of
the National Archives and Records Administration—
record keepers for all historically valuable records
created by agencies of your Federal Government.
From one building on Pennsylvania Avenue in
Washington, DC, the National Archives has grown
to 13 archives locations nationwide, from Atlanta to
Anchorage.
Make an Appointment to
Use Original Records
Our sta is here and ready to assist you. Because research
is time-consuming, you may need to visit more than once.
Please call 770-968-2100 before visiting to assure that
records are available.
Please bring identication such as a driver’s license,
passport, or student ID so that we can issue you a
researcher’s card.
Please plan on leaving your personal belongings in a
locker. Laptop computers are permitted.
Get Copies of Records
For a fee, our sta will make or arrange for copies of
records and provide certied copies for legal use.
You can use self-service copiers for a fee to make paper
copies from microlm.
Self-service copying of original records may be allowed,
depending on the condition of the records.
Host Your Event at the
National Archives!
Conference and event areas within the National Archives
at Atlanta may be available for certain events such as cor-
porate programs, non-partisan elections, family reunions,
professional meetings, workshops, lecture series, etc. To
inquire about criteria and availability, call us, or send an
e-mail to morrow.resource[email protected]v.
“Becoming a citizen at the National Archives on the
Fourth of July was more than I could have imagined.”
—A citizen, aer taking the Oath of Allegiance
at the National Archives at Atlanta