National Archives at Atlanta

01/23/2025

The National Archives at Atlanta will open at 10 a.m. on Thursday, January 23rd.

01/21/2025

The National Archives at Atlanta will be closed to the public on Wednesday, January 22nd, due to winter weather.

Please check back for additional updates.

01/21/2025

The National Archives at Atlanta will close at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, January 21st, because of predicted winter weather conditions.

01/09/2025

The National Archives at Atlanta will be closed to the public on Friday, January 10th, because of expected winter weather.

01/08/2025

Please be advised that the National Archives at Atlanta will be closed January 9th, 2025.

11/20/2024

09/26/2024

The National Archives at Atlanta is closing at 12 noon on Thursday, September 26, and will remained closed through Friday, September 27, because of expected severe weather from Hurricane Helene.

08/16/2024

While Alcatraz observes its 90th anniversary this week, the staff at the National Archives at San Francisco is highlighting some of the prisoner files available from the earliest men transferred to this famous federal penitentiary.

Similar records from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary are available at the National Archives at Atlanta. Please contact us if you're interested in exploring these fascinating records.

02/06/2024

As a heads-up, for those seeking records held by
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, there will be a fee schedule change going into effect on April 1st, 2024. Click the link below to find out a breakdown of what these changes are as well as further information.

This final rule adjusts certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees charged by USCIS. This rule also provides additional fee exemptions for certain humanitarian categories and makes changes to certain other immigration benefit request requirements. USCIS conducted a comprehensive...

11/09/2023

In observance of Veteran's Day, the National Archives at Atlanta will be closed on Friday, November 10th, 2023.

"World War I Draft Registration Card for Alvin C. York", 06/05/1917: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/596217

11/04/2023

1999, the USDC Atlanta court case no. 99-CR-0609 U.S. v. Kaplan, et al., informally the Gold Club case, is opened.

This case was the subject of the 2020 podcast "Racket: Inside the Gold Club", which featured a lot of research using our 13 boxes of records for the case.

10/20/2023

1967, a federal jury at the US District Court in Meridian, MS convicts seven participants in a conspiracy to murder activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. The case file is in our collection; email [email protected] for more info!

09/30/2023

To kick off , we're going to highlight the recently declassified records relating to UFOs and other unidentified phenomena during Project Blue Book, particularly near Roswell, New Mexico.

Begin browsing case files on sightings here!: https://catalog.archives.gov/search-within/23857159

"Air Intelligence Information Report, 03/18/1959": https://catalog.archives.gov/id/311002544?objectPage=11

09/28/2023

Happy ! Humans have always used bodies of water for food sources, travel, shipment, protection, and conflict.

To celebrate, we are highlighting the digitized U.S. Coast Guard logs of USCGC Blackberry (WLI-65303). Start here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/148269724

03/03/2023

RESEARCHER NOTICE
National Archives research rooms are scheduled to be closed or closing early to the public on the dates listed in our Federal Holidays and Research Room Closings web page: www.archives.gov/news/federal-holidays.
Regular services will resume the following business day. Online access to NARA holdings will remain available via: www.archives.gov/research.
Normal research room hours for each location are available at www.archives.gov/locations #.

02/09/2023

, the National Archives & Records Administration and its field offices (archives.gov/locations) do NOT hold copies of certificates of naturalizations. Certificates prior to 1956 are held through the USCIS Genealogy Program (https://tinyurl.com/dtyasn5e), and ones past that date are held by USCIS (https://tinyurl.com/4vecyxnu).

12/19/2022

To our researchers: With the holiday season in full swing, see a list of dates and times our research rooms will close early or all day at https://www.archives.gov/news/federal-holidays

View and download this photo here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/148728626