NARA Seattle

[John Beaman]

From someone familiar with the NARA:"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is headquartered in Washington, D.C., mostly in the Roosevelt-era building downtown but also at Archives II - College Park (where you have been). These two operations, however, are but the tip of a bureaucratic pyramid. The NARA also operates 13 regional depositories within the United States. One of these regional depositories is located in Seattle; another in Kansas City; another in East Point (Atlanta) Georgia; another in the Dallas area; one or two in California, and so forth. The regional depositories are charged with receiving and conserving the obsolete records of federal agencies within their geographic region.In addition to the regional depositories, the NARA also operates two National Personnel Records Centers in St. Louis, Missouri: one for military personnel records and one for civil personnel (i.e., retired civil servants) records. It's possible that there are yet other miscellaneous activities and facilities of the NARA, but I never heard of any others.So far as I know, the only way that any German records could possibly be found at NARA/Seattle is thru its accidental/incidental holding of copies of RG 242 Captured German Records on microfilm, the same material that we buy on microfilm from the NARA at College Park, where the masters are held. Because of the expense of copies and other factors, I am seriously skeptical that any captured German records on microfilm exist at the Seattle Regional Depository."