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Welsh History of World War One to go online
A project led by the National Library of Wales in partnership with the libraries, special collections, and archives of Wales has received £500,000 in funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) for mass digitisation of primary sources relating to World War One.
The project will make available a unique digital collection revealing the hidden history of World War One as it affected all aspects of Welsh life, language and culture. The project will digitise printed and manuscript sources as well as moving image, audio and photographic material. These source materials are presently fragmented and frequently inaccessible, yet collectively they form a unique resource of vital interest to researchers, students, and the public in Wales and beyond.
The project has been developed by WHELF (the Welsh Higher Education Libraries Forum).
Collections to be digitised are from the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth University
Special Collections, Bangor University Special Collections, Trinity St David’s Special
Collections, Swansea University, Cardiff University Library, the Archives of BBC
Cymru Wales and archives and local records offices that are members of ARCW (Archives
and Records Council, Wales). The People’s Collection Wales will gather content generated
by communities and local and family historians. It will also digitise and in personal
collections via outreach and targeted digitisation of significant material to enhance
and complement the collections of the higher education partners. The unified, mass
digital collection that will be created will represent the experience of the entire
Welsh nation during World War One. Read more at: http://whelf.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/welsh-
FINDMYPAST.CO.UK TO PUBLISH WESTMINSTER ARCHIVE RECORDS ON THE WEB
>
> * Project announced
to increase access to 10 million baptism, marriage,
> burial and parish chest records
dating back to 1538
>
> * First time that images of the original parish records from
Westminster
> will appear online
>
> Leading UK family history website findmypast.co.uk
has today announced that
> it has been awarded a digitisation contract by the City
of Westminster
> Council and the Westminster Archives Centre. This significant new
project
> will lead to the publication online for the very first time of 10 million
>
historic records from the Archives. The records are expected to launch later
> this
year and will become fully searchable, only at findmypast.co.uk.
>
> Spanning the
years 1538 to 1945, the records cover such London landmark
> churches as:
>
> * St
Anne's, Soho
>
> * St Clement Danes
>
> * St George's Hanover Square
>
> * St James'
Westminster
>
> * St Margaret's Westminster
>
> * St Martin-
>
> * St Mary-
>
> * St Paul's, Covent Garden
>
> As well as baptisms, marriages and burials, the
Westminster Collection
> includes such gems as rate books, orphan and apprentice records,
vestry
> minutes, cemetery registers, charity documents, workhouse admission and
>
discharge books, settlement examinations, churchwardens' accounts, bastardy
> and
poor law records, wills, militia and watch records.
>
> Guy Strachan, Digitisation
Manager at findmypast.co.uk, said: "The City of
> Westminster Archives Centre is an
absolute treasure trove for family and
> local historians, and the addition of these
amazing records to
> findmypast.co.uk will greatly enhance the website's standing
as the central
> resource for UK parish records."
>
> Anyone wishing to be notified
when the Westminster Collection becomes
> available can register online at findmypast.co.uk
to receive a newsletter.
>
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list archiver
> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
Please note that from 1st April 2012 the Devon Record Office in Exeter will be closed on Mondays and the North Devon Record Office in Barnstaple will be closed on Wednesdays
Ceredigion Archives
Latest relocation news and opening hours January -
Ceredigion Archives is preparing to move to new premises in April. This involves
a great deal of back-
Thursday opening hours will be extended by one hour from 10am -
We will then
be closed to the public throughout April and we hope to reopen early in May.
Temporary closure Bangor University Archives
23 July -
Due to major refurbishment work in the main strong room, Bangor University Archives and Special Collections will close temporarily to the public.
The department will close at 5.00 p.m. on 20 July 2012 and reopen on 10 September 2012.
No Archives service, including rare books, will be available during this period.
We apologise for any inconvenience this closure might cause to searchers.
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/archives/index.php.en
CERTIFICATE PRICES
From April 1st there are indeed a couple of revisions kicking in to the statutory legislation for local certificates.
If you register a birth, marriage or death at a local registrar's office, the cost to obtain a certificate at the time of registration is to rise from the current £3.50 to £4.
For historic certificates -
There is to be no change for the cost of certificates obtained from the national GRO for England and Wales at Southport, which remains at £9.25.
Apparently these changes are due to the Registration of Births Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2012, laid before Parliament on 9th March.
Worcestershire Record Office
http://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/cms/records.aspx
for making us aware of the following -
Dear All, In January Worcestershire Record
Office combined with Worcestershire Historic Environment and Archaeology Service
to become a new joint service – Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service. We
are moving into a new building – The Hive – which will enable us to provide a wider
range of resources to our users as a new joined-
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