Internments of Japanese-Americans During World War II

     This is from a file yielding 109,340 records of persons who were living in the United States who were forced into concentration camps under Executive Order 9066.

     The webmaster downloaded the uncleaned, public-domain file at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1264228 and added the contents after purging some meaningless entries and junk. The file and the material needed to decode it are at https://sortedbyname.com/download/Internments

     For researching an individual, you do not need the whole dataset, so use the search box at https://aad.archives.gov/aad/fielded-search.jsp?dt=3099&tf=F&cat=WR26&bc=,sl to det more details such as the person’s occupation and religion.

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