New RG layout at NARA

[Mihai Pica]

I recently noticed that the Record Groups have a different homepage, where now one can observe how much has been digitized.

https://www.archives.gov/findingaid/rec ... p-explorer

[Mori]

Thanks. It's pretty nice, and useful when you have a first idea what you're looking for.

[Max104740]

Does anybody know in which Record Group are the documents we usually use, like the T 78 Rxxx rolls?

[MLW]

Record Group 242 (Captured German Records)

[Piet Duits]

Maybe I am looking at the wrong direction, but I can't find the current prices of microfilms. How much is it these days?

[Max104740]

Record Group 242 (Captured German Records)

Thank you
Max

[MLW]

Maybe I am looking at the wrong direction, but I can't find the current prices of microfilms. How much is it these days?

Here NARA's webpage with the microfilm roll digitization information, including prices. Note, the microfilm digitization program is suspended at the moment because of the COVID pandemic.

https://www.archives.gov/research/order/microfilm-pubs

[Piet Duits]

1 3 5 USD for a single roll ???
Wow. I used to pay 35 USD for each roll. Wow.

[Mihai Pica]

RG 373 now has a couple thousand newly added recce photos of France and Pacific area

https://catalog.archives.gov/search?q=* ... 9&rows=100

[Mihai Pica]

And now around 5300 german recce photos of Russia.

[MLW]

Unfortunately, the aerials are low resolution - scanned at only 300 dpi.

[Mihai Pica]

Yeah...for the real thing we have to pay ncap, it seems this was the deal, nara will get to publish free 300 dpi, ncap sells the higher resolutions

[MLW]

NCAP's prices are very expensive. Once NARA re-opens, it may be cheaper to use NARA's online catalog as a finding aid and have a researcher (someone other than me), scan a aerial at about half the price of NCAP.

[Mihai Pica]

NARA has recently uploaded some items from RG242, and promises to continue the process

https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov ... blications

T178 - Fragmentary Records of Various Reich Ministries and Offices - https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7788350
T501 - Records of German Field Commands: Rear Areas, Occupied Territories, and Others - https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7797948
M1743 - Guides to Microfilmed Records of the German Navy - https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12000197

[Mori]

Thanks for the links, I think it's the first time they scan and upload German documents, isn't?

Funny that they picked T501: it's one of the series BAMA also uploaded last year.