Local Archives

We round up a baker’s dozen of some of the most exciting developments due across the country

1 Aberdeen City And Aberdeenshire Archives

tinyurl.com/aberdeen-poor-relief

Remote indexing of Parochial Board minutes, a project launched in March this year, will continue into 2022.

2 Perth And Kinross Sound Archive

tinyurl.com/pk-sound-arch

Perth & Kinross Archive has won a grant from the Archives Revealed partnership to create a catalogue and portal to this collection of recorded conversations between fieldworkers and elderly residents of rural Perthshire.

3 Teesside Archives

teessidearchives.wordpress.com

Teesside Archives is currently moving to the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough. It’s due to open at its new location in spring 2022, and the website will relaunch at the same time.

4 Borthwick Institute For Archives

york.ac.uk/borthwick

Now that the website’s been redesigned, the institute is looking to update the content of the research guides and relaunching Archbishops’ Registers Revealed ( archbishopsregisters.york.ac.uk).

5 West Yorkshire Archive Service

tinyurl.com/wyas-cat

Freshly pressed pages from the Anne Lister Diaries Transcription Project will continue to be published online in 2022.

6 Shropshire Archives

shropshirearchives.org.uk

Indexes and images from a project to digitise policy books from the Salop Fire Office will be available online next year.

7 NORFOLK RECORD OFFICE

archives.norfolk.gov.uk

Volunteers aim to finish indexing all of the parish Poor Law settlement papers in 2022.

8 Warwickshire County RECORD OFFICE

tinyurl.com/wcro-databases

An upcoming index of quarter sessions (1800–1850) will contain details of anyone who had dealings with the courts – both criminals and civil administration.

9 Gloucestershire Archives

gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives

The archive is partnering with volunteers from Gloucestershire Family History Society to index land leases from the Gloucester Borough collection – the names will then be added to the new online catalogue at gloucestershire.epexio.com.

10 West Glamorgan Archives

tinyurl.com/wga-ww2-civ

This recently revamped website includes a digitised register of civilian casualties during the Second World War.

11 Buckinghamshire Archives

tinyurl.com/bucks-archives

The service aims to integrate standalone finding aids into its relaunched catalogue.

12 Surrey History Centre

exploringsurreyspast.org.uk The history centre is two-thirds of the way towards its goal of indexing all of the Poor Law union minutes for Surrey.

13 Dorset History Centre

tinyurl.com/dorset-history

Staff are making more records available via the centre’s catalogue, and asking volunteers to geotag material for specific places.