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Place
Facility Research Guides
Research individual laboratories, production plants, test sites, contractor locations, buildings, and their surviving documentary records.
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Turn a research question into a documentary trail.
Rosetta Research Guides are practical pathways for locating, retrieving, evaluating, and connecting records scattered across agencies, repositories, record groups, technical collections, and historical filing systems.
Question → Evidence Needed → Record Series → Repository → Retrieval → Evaluation → Finding
Research pathways
Start with the kind of evidence you need.
Each guide will identify useful record types, likely repositories, archival terminology, retrieval strategies, evidentiary cautions, and connections to related Rosetta research.
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Matter
Nuclear Materials Research
Trace isotopes, source forms, transformations, components, transfers, accountability records, and material genealogies.
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Archives
Archival Retrieval Guides
Navigate NARA, DOE/AEC collections, technical repositories, finding aids, record groups, accession records, and archival series.
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Movement
Shipment & Accountability Records
Locate bills of lading, transfer records, receiving documents, material-balance records, accountability forms, surveys, and disposition records.
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Work
Occupational History Research
Reconstruct worker populations, tasks, buildings, work organization, monitoring practices, incidents, and surviving personnel evidence.
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Authority
MED / AEC / ERDA / DOE Contract Research
Follow prime contracts, subcontracts, procurement offices, contractor relationships, work locations, deliverables, and surviving contract files.
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Context
Classification & Declassification Research
Interpret historical codewords, classification markings, formerly restricted subjects, declassification context, and public archival trails without inferring unreleased information.
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Recovery
FOIA & Records Recovery
Develop targeted requests from documentary clues, identify likely custodians and record series, and track unrecovered evidence without overstating what should exist.
Explore missing evidence →Research discipline
A guide shows where and how to look—not what the evidence must prove.
Rosetta Research Guides are designed to make documentary research reproducible. They separate the research question from the expected answer and preserve uncertainty when a search produces incomplete, contradictory, or negative results.
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Facility-specific guides will grow from verified work.
Publication-ready guides can eventually cover major Rosetta research areas such as Pinellas, ORNL/X-10 and MSRE, Hematite, Weldon Spring, Rocky Flats, Y-12, Argonne, Mound, and other facilities.
A guide becomes public only after its sources, retrieval instructions, evidentiary claims, and public presentation have been reviewed.
Connection to the archive
Research guides are maps into the evidence.
They do not replace primary sources. Their purpose is to help researchers find the right collections, understand the record-keeping system that produced them, document unsuccessful searches, and return every historical finding to its source trail.