The free full text search in the EDGAR system at the SEC goes back only the past 4 years and the header information in SEC filings goes back to 1994.
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Access to Archival Databases (NARA AAD) has an index of historical Securities and Exchange Commission public companies – searchable by officer and director names and company names. These records go back to 1972 in Proposed Sale of Unregistered Securities by Individuals and back to 1978 in Trading of Securities by Corporate Insiders.
The descriptions of these two databases of SEC filings is as follows: Continue reading ‘Searching SEC Records’