Start with what you remember.
You do not have to know where the asbestos was. A workplace, company, product name, old document, trust name—or only the kind of work someone did—can be enough to choose a useful research path.
What do you have?
I remember a workplace
Start with an employer, plant, jobsite, town, region or project.
I remember a company
Follow company identities, historical names, products, records and related trust research.
I remember a product or trade name
Use the remembered name to move into company history, documents and work settings.
I have or remember a document
Explore original records and the historical collections they support.
I know a trust name
Connect the trust to the historical company and current official trust materials.
I do not know the product or exposure source
Build the history from place, work, time, equipment, people and other memories.
A memory can move in more than one direction
Workplace ↔ company ↔ product ↔ historical records ↔ work process ↔ bankruptcy history ↔ trust materials.
The research system is designed so you can enter at the point you actually remember instead of guessing which legal or historical category comes first.
Five deep historical collections
For developed company and product histories, continue to the historical collections for Johns-Manville, Kaylo/Owens, Pittsburgh Corning/Unibestos, Armstrong and Eagle-Picher.