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An original cell of the Public Record Office at the Maughan Library. The growing size of the archives held by the PRO and by government departments led to the Public Records Act 1958, which sought to avoid the indiscriminate retention of huge numbers of documents by establishing standard selection procedures for the identification of those documents of sufficient historical importance to be ...
The church court records extend to some five million pages of information and the NAS is, at the time of writing (2008), developing an online access system for large-scale, unindexed historical sources, in parallel to free access in the NAS's public search rooms, known as "virtual volumes". [13]
FreeBMD is a website which coordinates and provides free transcriptions of the indexes to births, marriages and deaths (BMD) registrations held by the General Register Office for England and Wales (GRO). It also provides a free search function and online access to images of the pages of the BMD indexes. The website was founded in 1998.
FREE Resources: 3 articles every 2 weeks (Register and Read Program, archived journals). Also, early journals (prior to 1923 in US, 1870 elsewhere) free, no registry necessary. Free and Subscription JSTOR [88] Jurn: Multidisciplinary Jurn is a free-to-use online search tool for finding and downloading free full-text scholarly works.
Web site Alexa traffic rank as of 2015 [3] Free features Features for subscribers Ancestry.com: 457 Multilanguage user interface. Some records are free for anyone to access, but the majority are accessible only by paid subscription. Subscriber benefits vary by subscription class. [4] FamilySearch: 2471 All features free
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A record office will typically include public search rooms (including reference books, archive catalogues and other finding aids), environmentally controlled strongrooms, administrative offices, and quite often small exhibition areas [a] together with a conservation room for the specialist repair [b] of documents. Search rooms are generally ...
Service and operational records of the armed forces War Office, Admiralty etc. Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence and files; Cabinet papers and Home Office records; Statistics of the Board of Trade; The surviving records of (mainly) the English railway companies, transferred from the British Railways Record Office