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NATIONAL ARCHIVES at ATLANTA

5780 Jonesboro Road Morrow, Georgia 30260

EXPLORE FEDERAL RECORDS of the Southeast Region FROM 

Alabama • Florida • Georgia • Kentucky • 

Mississippi • North Carolina • South Carolina • Tennessee

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Directions

The facility is located in Morrow, Georgia, approximately 10 

miles south of Hartsfield Atlanta Airport. 

From downtown Atlanta, take I-75 South to Exit 233, 

Morrow. Turn left onto Georgia Highway 54/Jonesboro 

Road. Travel approximately 11⁄2 miles. The National 

Archives at Atlanta is the second building on the right after 

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 Leaflet 47, Revised 2010

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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.

N A T I O N A L A R C H I V E S 

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can see original historical documents, 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, noncurrent 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

The 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. These ceremonies are open to the public. 

Featured Presentations

Democracy Starts Here This 11-minute film, produced 

by the Discovery Channel, reveals how records in the 

National Archives make a real difference in the lives of 

people. It is presented courtesy of the Foundation for 

the National Archives. 

Stories of the Great Depression This 28-minute film, 

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 difficult 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 offer specific 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. This exhibit gives a taste of many great stories 

that you can find 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 specific 

need or just need help, our staff is here to guide you to 

your answers as you get started and throughout your 

exploration. If during your search you do not find the 

needle in the haystack you are seeking, you will find 

something unexpected, unique, and fascinating. 

There 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 files and talk about ways 

that they could share this experience 

with their students. Your partnership 

exemplifies 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 officials, 

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 

files, 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 microfilmed 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 field 

trips. Work with our education staff to custom-design an 

interactive, hands-on learning experience that includes 

a tour of exhibits with our staff. (Educators receive previsit 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 staff available 

on-site, you can use documents and online resources to 

search, and perhaps find out how your family’s story and 

those of others defined 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 

draft 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 

find 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.

“Thank 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 staff 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 identification 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 staff will make or arrange for copies of 

records and provide certified copies for legal use.

You can use self-service copiers for a fee to make paper 

copies from microfilm.

Self-service copying of original records may be allowed, 

Host Your Event at the depending on the condition of the records. 

National Archives!

Conference and event areas within the National Archives 

at Atlanta may be available for certain events such as corporate 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.resources@nara.gov. 

“Becoming a citizen at the National Archives on the 

Fourth of July was more than I could have imagined.”

—A citizen, after taking the Oath of Allegiance 

at the National Archives at Atlanta