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Wed Jan 15 22:16:07 1997
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:16:28 -0600 (CST)
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This message is being posted to a number of Listservs. Please forgive
cross-posting and length. This message updates information last posted
March 14, 1996.
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The Center for Electronic Records of the U.S. National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA) has updated the 'Title List: A Preliminary
and Partial Listing of the Data Files in the National Archives and Records
Administration.' The 'Title List' is current as of December 23, 1996, and
now has entries for approximately 12,000 of the over 23,000 electronic
records files in the custody of the National Archives.
The 'Title List' is available via the NARA information server. The general
URL is http://www.nara.gov/ with information about the electronic
records program and holdings available at
http://www.nara.gov/nara/electronic. See below for information about
access to the Title List directly and via FTP.
Among the new entries to the 'Title List' are:
1) Records of the Office of Education (Record Group 12) and Records of
the National Institute of Education (Record Group 419): National
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Years 1 (1969-70), 3
(1971-72) and 5 (1973-74) (365 data files)
2) Records of the Bureau of the Census (Record Group 29): the Federal
Assistance Award Data System (FAADS) FY 1995 Quarters 3 and 4 (2
files); Current Population Survey Files for 1990 and January 1991 (9
files); and Annual Housing Survey SMSA Files 1974 and 1976-1979 (87
files).
3) Records of the Internal Revenue Service (Record Group 58): Statistics
of Income: County-to-County, State-to-State and County Income Migration
Files, 1978-1992 (22 files); and Statistics of Income: Individual Tax Model
Files, 1981, 1983, and 1986 (6 files).
4) Records of the Administration for Children and Families (Record Group
292): National Studies of the Incidence and Severity of Child Abuse and
Neglect, 1979-80 and 1986 (2 files); and Office of Refugee Resettlement
Master File, 1975-1990 (2 files).
5) General Records of the Department of Transportation (Record Group
398): Origin and Destination Surveys, Passenger, Ticket Dollar Value
Origin and Destination (Data Bank 1A), CY1994 and 1995 Quarterly Files
(8 files).
6) Donated Materials from the Center for Immigration Research , Balch
Institute, Temple University: Famine Irish Entry Project, 1846-1851 (5
files).
The full 'Title List' file and/or 19 extract files are available electronically.
There is one extract file for each executive branch department,
presidential offices, independent establishments and government
corporations, temporary committees, commissions and boards, and the
legislative and judicial branches. Entries are arranged in each extract file
numerically by NARA Record Group and thereunder alphabetically by
series title. The direct URL is:
http://gopher.nara.gov:70/11/inform/dc/electr/titlelst
Alternatively, the Title List files are available on an FTP site. Anonymous
FTP (password 'guest') to FTP.CU.NIH.GOV, directory
NARA_ELECTRONIC. A READ.ME file on the FTP site provides further
information about the 'Title List' and Title List extract files. Note that the
full 'Title List' file has 19,595 lines and is approximately 1.5 megabytes in
size.
Sincerely,
THEODORE J. HULL
Archives Specialist
Center for Electronic Records
National Archives
(301) 713-6645
theodore.hull@arch2.nara.gov
