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foreign [Music] do you know someone that keeps everything photographs wedding invitations home movies what even is this thing now imagine helping the US government sort through all of its stuff with more than 200 years of History to go through you better clear your schedule because if the records of the National Archives were laid in a straight line they'd go on for thousands of miles in over 40 facilities across the country including a series of man-made Limestone caves in Missouri Kansas and Illinois the U.S government has been accumulating records in the national archives for decades it wasn't always this organized in fact prior to the 20th Century Government records were often kept in attics basements and even abandoned buildings with little regard for their safekeeping many were destroyed in fires floods or lost that's why in 1934 President Franklin D Roosevelt signed the National Archives act into law it created the National Archives and Records Administration a federal agency de