Search this database for information about travel Visas, Visa Classifications, and Reciprocity Agreements.

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The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of the National Archives' in the Washington, DC, area; Regional Archives; and Presidential Libraries. ARC is a work in progress.

ARC contains many descriptions of records of interest to genealogists and family historians, including:

*  Applications for enrollment in Native American Indian tribes
*  Court records
*  Fugitive slave cases
*  Land records
*  Military personnel records
*  Naturalization records

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Published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.

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Search this database to instantly locate information about patents filed in the United States. The database includes information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week. Patents from January 1976 to the present offer the full searchable text, including all bibliographic data, such as the inventor's name, the patent's title, and the assignee's name; the abstract; the full description of the invention; and the claims. The display of each patent's full-text includes a hyperlink to obtain full-page images of each page of the patent.

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Search this database to find the location of any bank in the United States that is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Bank Find allows you to locate a single FDIC-insured institution by entering one or more criteria. If more than one institution meets the criteria you enter, you will be provided with a list of institutions. Bank Find can answer questions such as: Is My Bank Insured? Where are My Bank's Branches Located? Where is My Bank's Home (Main) Office Located? What is My Bank's Web Site Address? What Happened to My Bank (Historical List of Events)? Does My Bank have a New Name? Is My Bank Still Open? And More.

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