Staff members of the House Science Committee, which delivered the main Congressional report on the 1986 Challenger explosion, were researching records of the Challenger inquiry yesterday.

Unfortunately, one of the problems with researching military records, particularly in the United Kingdom, is the widespread physical locations of the material.

Meanwhile, a resourceful and irate trucking-company salesman named Harold Turner, from next-door Hudson County, researched public records and quickly figured out E. B.'s identity.

Can I get help researching records?

For years, she petitioned the government for her husband's medal - making phone calls, writing letters and researching military records to prove her husband deserved the Medal of Honor.

Furthermore, Debra and I have thoroughly researched seismographic records of submarine earthquake activity in the North Atlantic in the years subsequent to the 1929 occurrence.

Mr. Sorrentino researched records at the Connecticut State Library in Hartford and at other libraries, reading newspaper articles, historic commission reports and colonial period documents.

Beth Macdonald, an American volunteer who has lived in western Norway for three decades, fields up to a dozen requests monthly from people who need help researching Norwegian records.

As one of Gopac's campaign videotapes advises, candidates should research public records and "make your opponent pay for controversial contributors."

For his research on the airfields, Halpenny interviewed 1,400 people, researched records and letters and travelled thousands of miles.