Research at the Archives

Archivists and reference staff are available in the Reading Room to:

Discuss projects and strategies
Point out possible archival sources
Show you how to use the finding aids

The Archives is unable to provide in-house research services. Depending on your scope of your research and the amount of materials you wish to access, research may take you thirty minutes, several hours, days, or even weeks.

Reference guides

Our reference guides will provide you with an introduction to some of the records that are most frequently requested at the Archives.

Tips for researching

Accessing materials

Our database provides the descriptions of records for all of our available holdings and is to the way you browse and seek out material relevant to your research.

To request a record when visiting the Archives, researchers will need to provide a record’s title, reference code, and container information available from the description.

There may be no digital copy of the records to look at from the database. Only a small portion of our total volume of records have been digitized to view and download online.
Restrictions on access
Request items from the vault