Navigating Online Public Access
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Navigating Online Public Access
8th Annual Genealogy Fair
April 19, 2012
Sara Schlanger
Office of Information Services
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
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Online access at NARA –
where we were…
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Online access at NARA –
where we were…
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Online access at NARA –
where we were…
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Online Public Access (OPA) www.archives.gov/research/search
• Launched Dec. 2010
• One place to search
– ARC
– AAD (7 series)
– Archives.gov
– Presidential Library websites
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Results grouped into categories • Online Holdings
• Description Only
• Archives.gov
• Presidential Libraries
• NARA’s Authority Files
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Online Holdings results
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Online Holdings
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Online Holdings – Zoom!
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Online Holdings – Zoom!
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Description Only results
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Archives.gov and
Presidential Libraries results
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Authority Files results
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Refine your search
• Narrow search “on-the-fly” with refinements
• Topic Clusters
• Data Source
• Type of Archival
Materials
• Hierarchical Level of
Records
• Date
• File Format
• Location
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Advanced Search
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Advanced Search
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Share Results
• Bookmarking – Bookmark a search and
run it again with the same criteria
– Bookmark a single record to be viewed again at a later date
• Share widget – Share results via email
– Share results on a variety of social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
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Registering for an OPA Account
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Log in to an OPA Account
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Tagging
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Contributed tags confirmed
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Demo of OPA
http://www.archives.gov/research/search
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Tips for searching on a
person’s name
• Keep in mind that most descriptions are not indexed by
name.
• OPA does not contain descriptions for all files and items
that include individuals' names.
• The National Archives still might have records about
your ancestors.
• Try to: • Search on the person's full name (first name last name or last
name first name). Try quotes to make it an “exact phrase”
search.
• Search on the surname only. The records might only include a
first initial or a variant spelling of the first name.
• Search on variant spellings of the surname, for example:
Freyer or Frier.
• Search on variant spellings of the first name, for example:
“Lev” or “Lebe.”
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Questions?
[Woman operating the card puncher], 1890 – 1950
(National Archives ID 513295)
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Thank you!
Visit OPA:
www.archives.gov/research/search
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http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access
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