The document provides instructions for searching Securities and Exchange Commission filings on the Archives.gov website for personal names and company records. It explains that searching for a name like "james a ford" will find results with those words in any order or field, while searching an exact name with quotation marks like "lastname firstname middleinitial" will return only matches with the full name together in one field and list all companies where that name appears as a filer. It concludes by providing a link to a website for more public records searches.

1. Search historical filings of Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Select “Genealogy/ Personal History” http:// aad.archives.gov/aad /

2. Type and date of SEC records that are searchable.

3. Query: “james a ford” will return a search with the words in this order, but possibly in different fields.

4. Terms in two different fields.

5. Search query for exact personal name: “lastname firstname middleinitial”

6. Name returned is name of filer, in one field. Results include all companies where this name appears.

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