NARA Work from Home

Welcome, NARA Staff! We're excited that you are going to help tag and transcribe records in the National Archives Catalog. Every contribution will help make these records more searchable and discoverable in our Catalog.  

1.  Register for a National Archives Catalog Account using your NARA email. If you already have a National Archives Catalog account, please login.

2.  Watch our tutorial on How to Tag and Transcribe Records:

3.  Review the tutorial on What Makes A Good Tag?

4.  Login, then select a mission below and start contributing!

5. In order to report your work accurately to you supervisor, keep a running list of the URL for each page you work on. You will be asked to provide this information to your supervisor on a regular basis, or as requested by the supervisor. 

6.  Questions or problems? Check out our FAQs and take a look at our ICN thread Citizen Archivist Q & A. If you still need help, contact the Community Managers at catalog@nara.gov

Incoming Messages, 1945

Help us transcribe top secret, secret and confidential messages sent to the Truman White House by diplomatic and military leaders pertaining to World War II and post-war Europe and Asia. Find a page without a blue tag, and Get started transcribing.

Meritorious Unit Commendations, 1967 - 1971

Help us transcribe award files that document the issuance of Meritorious Unit Commendations to U.S. units that distinguished themselves through exceptionally meritorious conduct in support of combat operations in Vietnam. 

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Recovery of Holocaust-Era Assets

Transcribe claims, claim lists, receipts, descriptions of art treasures, and miscellaneous records discovered or created during the investigation of the claim for the recovery of Holocaust era Assets. The majority of the records pertain to claims of private persons, organizations, businesses or governments.

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Washington, D.C. Building Permits

Help transcribe building permits from the Records of the Government of the District of Columbia. 

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United States Navy Fleet Problems I to XXII, 1975 - 1975

A fleet problem was an exercise which involved most of the Navy's operational fleet units. Help us transcribe copies of final reports, correspondence, statements, and estimates of the fleet problem, narrative reports of events, umpire reports, and records created at the critiques held following each fleet problem.   

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Proceedings of the Osage Tribal Council

Transcribe the verbatim record of what was said during the course of the Osage Tribal Council meetings between 1920 - 2025.

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Would you like to tag or transcribe records from your own unit?

You can search the Catalog and use filters to narrow your results, or do an advanced search to find records to transcribe or tag. We recommend narrowing your results to display "Archival Descriptions with Digital Objects" or "Available Online."

PLEASE NOTE: In order to track the work of NARA staff that may fall outside the missions created above, please add the tag nwfh20 to every description you work on as shown in this example: