Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked QuestionsThe following list of people have indicated their interest in providing historical research assistance at the Naval History and Heritage Command or in the Washington, DC area for a fee. Note: Distribution of this listing by the Department of the Navy is informational purposes only, and does not constitute an endorsement by the Department of the Navy of the products or services of the individuals or organizations listed therein.
| Name: | Archival Research International | |
| Address: | 1539 Foxhall Road, NW | |
| Dept. JM12 | ||
| Washington, DC 20007-2067 | ||
| Phone: | (202) 338-4249 | |
| Military history, foreign language, maps, film, and photographs. | ||
| Name: | Aviation Archive | |
| Address: | 12624 Orchard Brook Terrace | |
| Potomac, MD 20854-2326 | ||
| Phone: | (240) 428-0038 | |
| Email: | aviationarchive@comcast.net | |
| Internet: | http://web.mac.com/aviationarchive/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html | |
| World War II military records, personnel, U.S. Navy ship muster rolls, asbestos research. | ||
| Name: | Brown, Kathi Ann | |
| Address: | The Word | |
| Suite 20, 737 N. Nelson St. | ||
| Arlington, VA 22203 | ||
| Phone: | (703) 524-9108 | |
| Books, exhibits, and oral history. | ||
| Name: | Constandy, Mike | |
| Deck Logs, LLC | ||
| Address: | Box 3200488 | |
| Alexandria, VA 22320 | ||
| Phone: | 202-421-5151 | |
| Email: | mjc@usndecklogs.com | |
| Deck logs and merchant ship logs, muster rolls, movement cards, US Maritime Commission, asbestos, construction and engineering, imagery and biographic research from the Civil War to current, with an emphasis on WWII and Vietnam. | ||
| Name: | Culbert, Thomas M., President | |
| Aviation Information Research Corp. | ||
| Address: | 73 Fendall Avenue | |
| Alexandria VA 22304 | ||
| Phone: | (703) 823-1264 | |
| Library/archival, online data search, speech preparation. | ||
| Name: | Dolbow, Jim | |
| Address: | PO Box 25128 | |
| Arlington, VA 22202 | ||
| Phone: | (703) 786-9839 | |
| Email: | jimdolbow@gmail.com / Twitter: @jimdolbow / Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/jimdolbow | |
| Name: | Feldman, Lawrence | |
| Address: | P.O. Box 2493 | |
| Wheaton, MD 20915-2493 | ||
| Phone: | 301-933-2616 | |
| Email: | Lawrenc846@aol.com | |
| Ship wreck research, genealogy Spanish-American War, work in Hispanic, Hispanic American archives. | ||
| Name: | Focused Research International | |
| Rypka, Allen E. CDR USN Ret | ||
| Address: | 7 Monterey Place | |
| Leonardtown, MD 20650 | ||
| Phone: | (301) 475-3898 | |
| Email: | rypfri@radix.net | |
| Naval Aviation, Aviation Safety, Intelligence and merchant marine history Researchers have security clearances. | ||
| Name: | Harris, Ruth Roy | |
| Address: | 9526 Launsberry Terrace | |
| Silver Spring, MD 20901 | ||
| Phone: | (301) 585-8586 | |
| Naval History. | ||
| Name: | History Associates Incorporated | |
| Address: | 300 N. Stonestreet Avenue | |
| Rockville, MD 20850 | ||
| Attn: James P. Rife | ||
| Phone: | (301) 279-9697 | |
| Fax: | (301) 279-9224 | |
| Email: | HAI@HISTORYASSOCIATES.COM | |
| Naval History. | ||
| Name: | History Dept. | |
| Address: | University of Maryland, College Park | |
| College Park, MD 20742-7315 | ||
| Attn: Dr. John Sumida (student assistance) | ||
| Phone: | (301) 405-4316 | |
| Naval History. | ||
| Name: | Johnson, Margaret | |
| Address: | 3200 Garfield Street NW | |
| Washington, DC 20008 | ||
| Phone: | (202) 333-4555 | |
| Fax: | (202) 333-1059 | |
| Email: | mmj@erols.com | |
| Photograhic or picture researcher. | ||
| Name: | Kovan, Florice | |
| Public & Private Research on Capitol Hill | ||
| Address: | 325 Pennsylvania Avenue | |
| Washington, DC 20003 | ||
| Phone: | (202) 547-0132 | |
| Fax: | (202) 547-4964 | |
| Copyright, database searches, preparation, and customized reports. | ||
| Name: | Morison, Samuel Loring | |
| Address: | 1830 North Forest Court, Apartment A | |
| Crofton, MD 21114 | ||
| Phone: | (301) 261-0710 | |
| Fax: | (301) 261-0710 | |
| U.S. Naval History, especially World War II to Present. | ||
| Name: | Naval Historical Foundation | |
| Address: | Washington Navy Yard | |
| 1306 Dahlgren Avenue, SE | ||
| Washington, DC 20374-5055 | ||
| Phone: | (202) 678-4311 | |
| Naval Historical Research, Photographic and Document Reproduction. | ||
| Name: | Price, Robert | |
| Address: | 132 Fog Plain Road | |
| Waterford, CT 06385 | ||
| Phone: | (860) 439-1184 | |
| Email: | rgprice@ct.metrocast.net | |
| Submarine History, Pacific War, Cold War; Submariner with access to the Submarine Force Library, the Naval War College, Coast Guard Academy Library, Battleship Cove and USS Constitution. | ||
| Name: | Sude, Barry R. | |
| Address: | 7129 Westmoreland Road | |
| Falls Church, VA 22042 | ||
| Phone: | (703) 574-3203 | |
| U.S. military history & policy research. | ||
| Name: | Taylor & Hammel LLC | |
| Address: | 1224 N. Neade Street #22 | |
| Arlington, VA 22209 | ||
| Phone: | (703) 822-4658 | |
| Fax: | (703) 842-8656 | |
| Email: | info@taylorhammel.com | |
| Military and environmental research, naval ship histories, asbestos. | ||
| Name: | WFI Research Group | |
| Address: | P.O. Box 231 | |
| Fall River, MA 02724-0231 | ||
| Phone: | (508) 675-5956 | |
| Internet: | http://www.cntn.net/wfirg/ | |
| Naval Aircraft and Casualty Data. | ||
| Name: | Williams, Martin K. | |
| Address: | 4625 Running Deer Way | |
| Bowie, MD 20720 | ||
| Phone: | (301) 805-4829 | |
| Naval history. | ||
| Name: | Wise, Captain James E., USN (Retired) | |
| Address: | 7118 Rock Ridge Lane | |
| Alexandria, VA 22310 | ||
| Phone: | (703) 971-9051 | |
| Fax: | (703) 979-8012 | |
| Naval history. |