---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 2910"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "2910"
heading: "Preservation of Freedmen’s Bureau records"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/2910"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — Records Management by the Archivist of the United States and by the Administrator of General Services"
---

# §2910. Preservation of Freedmen’s Bureau records


The [Archivist](/usc/44/2901.md?p=12) shall preserve the [records](/usc/44/2901.md?p=1) of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly referred to as the “Freedmen’s Bureau”, by using—

- (1) microfilm technology for preservation of the documents comprising these [records](/usc/44/2901.md?p=1) so that they can be maintained for future generations; and
- (2) the results of the pilot project with the University of Florida to create future partnerships with Howard University and other institutions for the purposes of indexing these [records](/usc/44/2901.md?p=1) and making them more easily accessible to the public, including historians, genealogists, and students, and for any other purposes determined by the [Archivist](/usc/44/2901.md?p=12).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–444, § 2(a), Nov. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 1929.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2910, Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1297, provided for final authority of Administrator in records practices, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 94–575, § 2(a)(4), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2726.