National Archives and Records Administration: Pacific Alaska Region [WA]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Pacific Alaska Region, Seattle, currently holds 38,000 cubic feet of original documents from federal government field offices in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho and a large microfilm collection of federal documents from across the remaining United States. Also provided are expert staff and volunteer assistance while using these and NARA’s vast online resources, including free access to popular commercial websites featuring millions of NARA documents online.
The facility offers an archival research room and microfilm research room, as well as free public access computers and is open to the public on a daily basis, except for federal holidays. The research rooms are open on the second Saturday of each month as well.
Other offerings include workshops on using the National Archives resources, historical topics, and general and online genealogy. Additionally, for educators, NARA offers topic specific teacher workshops upon request.