Your Stories

During 75 years of preserving and creating access to the records of the Federal Government, the staff and volunteers of the National Archives have remained dedicated to our mission to ensure that the people can discover, use and learn from this documentary heritage.

We'd like to hear YOUR STORY!

THE RECORDS: Please tell us how the records you've discovered at the National Archives have affected your life:

What meaning do they hold?
Did you uncover a great family treasure?
How did it feel to become a history detective?
Have you shared your discovery with others?

THE STAFF: Generations of staff members and volunteers have journeyed along with researchers during the first 75 years of National Archives history. Please tell us how a staff member or volunteer (past or present) has made an impression on you.

You may have been helped by someone in the research room; or maybe someone working behind the scenes had arranged, described, or indexed a series of records of particular value to you; or perhaps the way a tour guide or exhibit curator used the records to highlight a chapter of history created that "aha" moment you will always remember. Here's an opportunity to thank that dedicated person or group who may have helped you in one of a hundred ways either yesterday, last week, last year or twenty years ago.

Won't you share with them the many ways that their efforts in public service have made a difference for you? If your submission is selected, it will be published on our web site as a personal story.

Tell us YOUR story!

Please complete the form below. If your story is longer than 500 words (approximately one page) or you would like to include photos, please submit your story and any associated images to:
75th-anniversary@nara.gov.

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Burmese Premier U Nu and Dr. Bahmer in the Rotunda viewing the Charters of Freedom, June 29, 1955. Nu was the first prime minister of Burma under the provisions of the 1947 Constitution of the Union of Burma. During the 1950s many foreign leaders, ambassadors, and their guests visited the National Archives to view these documents.