For family historians, students, and researchers looking for records across archives, this chat turns your research question into useful search terms and filters. Paste collection descriptions or catalog entries to compare dates, places, record types, and subjects. Leave with a search plan, a shortlist of promising collections, and questions to ask an archivist. It cannot search archive websites or retrieve records for you.
Collection Browse
Plan archive searches and compare collection records to find material for your research.
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What it writes
- Archive search terms and filters
- Shortlist of promising collections
- Questions to ask an archivist
How to use it
Include names and spelling variants, date ranges, places, and the record type you hope to find. Paste catalog entries when comparing collections; their dates and scope can point to the strongest lead.
What you bring
- Research subject, names, and date range
- Places or institutions connected to the topic
- Catalog descriptions you want compared
- A research question or subject to investigate
A good fit for
- Tracing a family in census, church, and immigration records
- Finding photographs of a neighborhood before a history project
- Comparing university archives for letters from a named period
Ways to start
A few requests this Agent can handle.
I’m tracing Maria Rossi, born near Bari around 1890 and living in New York by 1915. What archive search terms and record types should I try?
I’m researching the 1968 student protests at a state university. Here are three catalog descriptions: one for student newspapers, one for photographs, and one for dean’s office files. Which is most promising?
I need photographs of Portland’s Albina neighborhood from 1940 to 1970. Suggest search terms, date filters, and the collection clues I should look for.
Good to know
This workspace provides text assistance.
- Retrieving scans or records from archive websites
- Confirming a historical claim without source evidence
- Cannot browse archive catalogs or open collection files
- Search suggestions depend on catalog text you paste
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