Out raffle tickets because we will be giving out friends of looksbrary and that means to lucky winners. Please join me at this time welcoming Brandi Thompson and james [applause] hi. Will introduce myself. Randy will be giving most of the presentation. I will be here for questions and answers. Just a little background. I volunteered after i got my ba in history from cal state San Bernardino in 2010, i began volunteering at the national riverside and in 2012i became a student archives in i gotnd then my masters degree in library and Information Science at the same time from san jose state , and then in 2014 i moved to st. Louis and worked at the National Archives at st. Preservation technician and then in 2016i moved back to california and in role as arc of specialist. So, i will turn it over to randy and he can give you his bio. Dy all right. Thank you, james. Welcome, everybody i want to thank mr. Karzais wonderful introduction. I want to thank the friends of the North Hollywood library and the sherman oaks friends of the library as well. I hope you enjoyed the earlier events. James did a great job. So, if you saw it, let him know you appreciate what he did. That summer job has lasted 24 years. Tell people sometimes, im still looking for a real job. I have not grown up yet. I love what i do. I love giving presentations. I love providing access to our holdings to the public you read if you were able to see the presentation earlier, james covered a lot of how to find resources at the National Archives. I will show you actual resources you can find in my facility. You may find similar things across the country. Some of these have been posted on facebook. Some of these records have also been used in exhibits in washington, d. C. And others are digitized in our catalog. I am not going to tell you the whole thing. I will show you. It will make it more enticing to visit and find out the ending of the story for yourself. I guess i will begin. I think we have covered that already. Our emailere jesses. We have our telephone there. That is our main line. Requests, there is the address you consider any questions you may have, even after tonight. We have social media. We have facebook. With twitter. We have tumblr. We make eight postings a month, usually on what our staff has found. Inalso try to find things our holdings to celebrate Different Things womens history month, native American History month, things like that. We really like our exposure on social media. Take out your phones, go ahead and give us a go ahead and can waits. In all seriousness, please visit these. If you enjoy them, definitely interacthe likes, the spirit you can like damages, that kind of thing. Ok . So what do we hold . E hold a lot of stuff a lot of cool records. We hold 71,000 records, at riverside alone. The National Archives in general is about 5 million cubic feet of original records. What we hold in riverside, they are graded by 89 federal. Gencies and courts clark county, nevada we all we all know clark county. Vegas. What happens in vegas inns up in the National Archives, so be careful. It is historic events, trends, issues, actions of the government, internet actions with the public, and document of rights of the individuals in the government. Ok . From 1798 until 2003. Do we have a lot of materials that date back to the 1700s . Of thenia was not part United States until the 1850s, some inve documents old spanish land grants that the arean, basically of two buck, arizona today. Granted to as family out there. This document here, kind of a stamp tax. It is written in old spanish. I always thought i could read spanish and speak it pretty well. I took four years in high school, past the ap exam and everything. To readbody know how old english . Is about the same thing trying to read old spanish. Motherinlaw, and was from mexico, showed her this document, she got through three sentences and went, i probably need some help. Is very pleasing to the eye. Its a beautiful document. Well over 200 years old and shows a little history in the southwest night state. United states. Ok . Now that weve seen the oldest document we hold, i will give you a Little Information on the oldest record we have created by a u. S. Government agency. It is a naturalization record dating back to 1851. The bulk of our materials are really after 1900 running. Hrough the 1970s or so after the 1970s, most of the Court Records we hold youre some of the other agencies we hold records for. Some of these agencies in may have heard of. Some of them you may not have. The bureau of land management, immigration and Naturalization Service, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration dutch which we all know as nasa. Randy yes. The u. S. Army corps of engineers. They do a lot of important work. If you look around this area, creekver, channel, encased in concrete, most likely the army corps of engineers had to do with that you we hold the records for all of that stuff. It a lot of their work was done after the 1938 floods. It happened through southern california. They did a lot of work to make sure that would not happen again. The u. S. Coast guard, u. S. Customs service, u. S. Districts courts, u. S. For service. I mention there are 89 federal agencies we hold records for. This is a drop in the bucket. These are the agencies we maintain most of our records for. We cant search for them. They are not arranged by topic or subject, ok . Not arranged by topic, subject matter, anything like that, not like you would find in a library to read for example, records relating to the second many war there were. Ecords at that time we keep the records in the original order. See whatway we can they were doing during the and the maintenance of those records. Again, your topic is research. It may be covered by many different federal agencies. I will show you that later. Breakdown. Re each federal agencies will have records created by a certain federal agency. Each agency may have different for creators. We call an officer in agency creators because they create the records. They may have dozens of collections. The immigration, naturalization ins, they the old would have found this at every port of entry. Even places like bakersfield. So, if you think of it, they could have had hundreds of offices. You have the records and all of those different offices are creating records, ok . They create different casections like alien files. Ok . The records can be comprised by as little as one page or item to tens of thousands of pages of material. We have one series of Court Records created by the Los Angeles District Court that is well over 20,000 cubic feet. Los angeles, civil rights case files, lawsuits. Does not happen often. Its a lot of material. World war, world war, workcreate records that best for their business purposes. They may be alphabetical or numeric. Thosen example ,ivil case files that we have they are followed by a case number. It has to do with some sort of copyright. Who are the parties involved with the case numbers . I dont know. Lets go to the indexes. Lets do some research. We will try to find out some of that stuff for you. Filed by case number. Indexes. Retty good list,ing back to that record agencies, here are numbers that go with those agencies. When you come to my facility and record Something Like group 255, how about this sound burial. This. Ind of looking at these are our most used sets of records. Record group 49 is where we send those researchers. Immigration, naturalization , there is a large spike in research right now. Experience of japanese internees during world war ii. The National Park service, record group 79. We have all been to the National Parks at some point. The grand canyon, lake mead. We have records on the administration of those parks. Every agency gets its own record. When i asked james, what is our record group 36, james . Customs. S. Randy well done, james. You and the microphone. Good job. Just want to see if youre still wake over there. Good enough. So donating records by individuals. So we were going to assume that weve already done some research ahead of time and were going to show you some topics. Going to show you some original records that we digitized. Some are online, some on facebook and some have been exhibits in the National Archives in washington, d. C. Im not going to read them verbatim line by line. Im just going to give you a little bit of the background of that record or the agency that created and it then kind of leave it up to you guys if you have more questions during the q a or again, riverside is only a couple of hours away. Come out and take a look. So when you have a consultation with an archivist, you can do it by email, telephone or by walking right into our office. So here are some of the questions well ask you or some of the information youll need. What was the historical trend, event or issue that youre interested in . What are the names of the individuals involved . Maybe with some personal information. If you have a date of birth or very approximate time of birth. Where they were living, and it doesnt have to be the exact address. County is fine. Los angeles county, glendale, california, anything like that is perfect. Who remember the federal agencies involved, if it was more than one federal agency . And if you dont know all this stuff you may need to check some other primary and secondary sources to find some of that information above. We can also help you locate some of that. A lot of times we have people come in and say i am really looking for my great grandfather. Cant find anything on him. I know he was a Land Surveyor for the bureau of land management. Do you have a time period . Yes. We can maybe find some resources for you. Were really good at doing that. So the first topic, what do we need to know . World war ii, enemy aliens and japanese internment and some of the individuals you might be researching. Maybe some of the individuals youre interested in finding more about their stories. What federal agencies may have been involved at that time . Immigration and Naturalization Service had a pretty good presence in that. Fbi, federal bureau of investigation. The war relocation authority. The u. S. District courts and the Selective Service system really among other agencies. So, as i mentioned earlier, that your topic of research might cover the records of many federal agencies. Thats what were there to help you determine which records you actually need. So the information, the what you need to know for mr. Nakata. He lived in ouma, arizona, in 1944. Born april 27, 1926 in san diego, california. And the record that we found him in, and this was actually on exhibits in the washington, d. C. National archives five years ago. It was an exhibit showing signatures of individuals. This record is from record group 147. Records of the Selective Service system and this document is a statement of United States citizen of japanese ancestry. So what these are is basically a questionnaire to find out information about an individual. Theyre going to ask, of course, what your name is, your date of birth, your present address, the last two addresses in which you were living. This gentleman was living in yuma, arizona in 1944. He gives some information about where he was living prior to that. Selanna beach, california. Vista, california. Other personal information. Gender, height, weight. Marital status. You go further down, some of the stuff, they want to know parents names. So if youre a family historian and you dont know a lot about some of your ancestors, would this be a good resource to put together for some information . And then asking about relatives living throughout the United States that you may have at that time. Is what they are being asked. So listing two individuals, a brother and a sister and saying theyre both in poston, arizona. Knowing these records, poston, arizona was one of the camps in arizona. At that time. And a little bit further, education information. We find out where this gentleman went to Elementary School and a high school. Sometimes we dont know that by sometimes we dont know that about our ancestors, but if you can get a record like there, kind of cool to find out where they went to school and then they ask for references asking your character, things like that. Wont list all the names of the people here or their occupations , but you can see what kind of information you can get on the questionnaire, and finally we sign it so we think that is completed, right . Ok. So as it turns out, questions 28 and 2 on this questionnaire didnt have enough room for him to put all of his thoughts down. Basically this individual said he would be more than willing to serve in the u. S. Army to help the u. S. Win the war. He wants to get his family out of the camps in poston, arizona. States hes a loyal citizen of the United States. He is not being permitted Civil Liberties right now. He doesnt like that, he wants that to change, stating that a true democratic form of government wouldnt do that to its people. And then later on, on the next page, he does state also that he is willing to serve his country. He may not want to bear arms but hes willing to do anything in the defense plant industry or any other capacity to help win the war. So Selective Service system, you would think this would be more like an f. B. I. Report or an immigration and naturalization record, but this is something the Selective Service system had as they were asking people about going into the draft or when they were about to be drafted and such. So moving on to the next individual. He lived in santa maria at the time, 1945. He was born in 1887 in japan. And the record that we have is an enemy alien case file on him. Its actually quite a thick file created by the records of the immigration and nationalization as much as. Ill show you a few of the examples that you would find in general in these records. Report of an alien enemy. Basic information again about yourself, personal information, next of kin, whos your spouse. Dates about when apprehended. This gentleman was apprehended on december 8, 1941. He was given to the ins in los angeles. You look further down, you can kind of see a stamp on there. It shows the date that this is being adjudicated or at least reviewed. December 7, 1945. So this entire process of that file has been going on about four years. He gives more information. How did he arrive in the country, when did he arrive. What was the name of the ship, what was the name of the shipping line, what country hes a citizen of, where in japan he was born, and so on. Asking, have you been to the u. S. Before . He said yes, 1913 and 1914. They ask other questions like why were you here and that kind of thing. And then sometimes you will get a fingerprint card with some photographs and those records. And this one is pretty common with all those records. And just to point out, these enemy alien case files also included individuals from other countries with which we were at war with at the time. Its not just individuals of japanese descent. Well have other countries represented here as well. And then we get finger prints. And then we get an f. B. I. Report. Now, just keep in mind that my office does not hold f. B. I. Records. This was a copy that was shared with the immigration and Naturalization Service and it was filed into that enemy alien case file, so different agencies working together, putting stuff together in one file and there you have it. And the report was quite long. It will list the individuals who did the investigations, any kind of evidence they collected and anything that they needed to put into this file. And if we look at the end it ratsuka was a produce dealer at the time. Its got to address where he was working. His occupation. So you get some pretty good stuff in there about an individual at that time. And again, these records are looked at at least four to five times a month in my office. People will come in and look at individuals that may have been family members or looking at it to put together like a Historical Perspective on different individuals. Moving on from there, were going to look at some other materials. These are related to chinese and chinese americans. Dating from 1883 to 1943. And were going to look at a couple of individuals you may or may not recognize the first one. Anna maw wong. And then james wong howe. And federal agencies involved with enforcing the chinese exclusion acts at that time, at least a couple were the immigration and Naturalization Service and the u. S. District courts and the u. S. Custom as u. S. Customs service. So again im just going to give you some sneak peeks on some of these records. Im going to talk first about anna mae wong. Im sure many of you know who she was. She was an actress. Information you may have about her. She lived in l. A. About 1938, and the record we found for her for you to look at is from record group 85. Nationalization and immigration service. District 16, which was los angeles. San pedro substation. Sometimes federal agencies like to have really, really long names so theyre sub offices. This record come out of the chinese exclusion act case files. And i just chose one document out of her file for you. Theres a lot more information in there for her but this one, you look at the picture, quite captivating. A Little Information on her. So this one i believe we have a couple of social media posts on her, so you want to again check out facebook and i can wait for a moment, or you can look later, either way. Whatever works best and you can see some of the stuff that we have on her. And then james wong howe. Born in 1898 in chin