'Your Archives' Open
The National Archives launches a new online area where you can share your knowledge of national records and help others in their genealogical research.
Your Archives is a ground-breaking new resource, which has recently been launched as part of The National Archives´ online services. It is a virtual community of record users where people can share their knowledge of archival sources held by The National Archives and by other archives throughout the UK.
Your Archives is a wiki. It uses the technology pioneered by Wikipedia online encyclopaedia. Therefore, users familiar with this technology will recognise the design of Your Archives.
The content on Your Archives is contributed by users and is designed to offer further information to what is currently available in our Catalogue, Research Guides, DocumentsOnline and the National Register of Archives. The Ctaogue has a link on each page to Your Archives encouraging users to find out more, or to contribute their knowledge about a particular record.
The National Archives are hoping that people will contribute in numerous ways by editing pre-existing pages and submitting articles about historical records held by The National Archives or elsewhere. Users can also expand upon a Catalogue entry, publish a transcription of one of the documents available in DocumentsOnline, or contribute to the National Archives Research Guides and share your hints and tips.
Most articles in Your Archives contain links to the Catalogue containing the actual records, and each article can be easily searched or browsed.
Examples of articles include this one on Adrian Jones, an artist and sculptor (1845-1938) whose work included many memorials commemorating those who lost their lives in the Great War.
'Your Caribbean Heritage' gives an inside view of Caribbean history as learned through the Colonial Office records series held at The National Archives.
This article on WO 22 provides extra information to help people research within the record series Royal Hospital Chelsea: Returns of Payment of Army and Other Pensions; the records are an important source for family and military historians.
Visit the Your Archives section here: http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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