For every subscription to Family Tree Magazine ordered through this link (click on the image), $6 will be donated to the Friends of the National Archives, Pittsfield, and $6 to the Federation of Genealogical Societies.

The mission of the Friends of the Silvio O. Conte National Archives is to support the National Archives in providing ready access to essential evidence.

The Silvio O. Conte National Archives and Records Administration was established in 1994 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to facilitate access to microfilm copies of Federal records with high research value while preserving original documents from deterioration and damage from handling.  Through its microfilm holdings, research services, public programs, and affiliation with twelve other regional archives and the National Archives in Washington, D. C., it is a national resource in a local setting.

NARA-Pittsfield has over 75,000 rolls of National Archives microfilm publications including:

Census records

Military records

Passenger ship manifests

Naturalization indexes

City directories

Papers of the Continental Congress

Records of the Constitutional Convention

Letters of application and recommendation of Presidents Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Pierce and Buchanan

Government correspondence - Land Office, Treasury, Attorney General

IRS tax assessments, 1862-1866

Records of Freedman's Savings and Trust

Post Office department records

State department correspondence and appointments

FBI case files index

JFK assassination documents

UFO files

Bermuda Triangle flight disappearance files

Passport applications register

Records of the Imperial Russian Consulates in the United States

Amistad case records

Impressed Seamen lists and papers

Lutheran Synods statistics, 1890

Trial of Aaron Burr and Harmon Blennerhassett

U. S. Marshalls index

Presidential pardons and remissions

Mauthausen Deutch books