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The National Archives is the UK government's official archive. Free digital downloads Contained in that catalogue are descriptions of archival records. Discovery holds more than 32 million descriptions of records held by The National Archives and more than 2,500 archives across the country. All subjects They’re not searching the content of documents are they?Chrissy: So no, not all the time. Quite a lot of our records have been made available online, either via our website or via a third-party website; in which case you will find that you’re able to access them digitally and download them. Contained in that catalogue are descriptions of archival records.Matt: Right. Is there something in the record description that tells you whether it’s us or whether it’s a third party that has digitized them?Chrissy: So, yeah. Matt Norman talks to Chrissy Peters about Discovery – the online catalogue for The National Archives and 2500 other archives.

See our help guide for more information on podcast subscription.Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events. If someone searches with a name in Discovery what kinds of results will they get? Discovery is our platform that provides a single point of online access to catalogue and organisational data from across the archive sector.. And if you click on to the record it will then direct you to the contact details for that archive that holds the record.Matt: Right.

Use Discovery to access records relating to Britain and British history held at: The National Archives; archives and institutions across the UK; some archives and institutions abroad.

Our main duties are to preserve Government records and to set standards in information management and re-use.

It has about 350 research guides on all different subjects ranging from the Merchant Navy to the Court of Common Pleas. What help can we give to people when they’re trying to work out the best way to search a particular set of records? The National Archives is the UK government's official archive. The National Archives permits registered users to order and download a reasonable number of documents for free and has set a maximum order limit of 50 documents in a 30-day period. In this case you can either choose between visiting us to view the records yourself or you can use our record copying department to have a copy of the record created and sent to you.Matt: And for those online records, for people that aren’t available, or aren’t able, to visit us; they’re going to be drawn to those records that are online.

Type any part of an archive name to see matching suggestions. How do they pick something out and how can they actually see the document? Family history The National Archives permits registered users to order and download a reasonable number of documents for free and has set a maximum order limit of 50 documents in a 30-day period. So that ‘held by’ section will tell you whether or not the record is held here, or whether it’s held at another archive, such as the London Metropolitan Archives or the Lambeth archives. Discovery is The National Archives’ catalogue.

How do they know which records are name searchable and where to start?Chrissy: Okay, so the first place that we advise people to go is to our research guidance which we make available via our website.

And it’s not just our records, right, that it describes? Our main duties are to preserve Government records and to set standards in information management and re …

The National Archives is the official archive and publisher for the UK government and for England and Wales.

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Special program to follow screening More Information Directions Visitor's Guide William G. McGowan Theater On Tuesday, January 27, at 7 p.m., the National Archives presents a special program and screening of a new documentary, The Decade of Discovery™.

Let’s think about the results again that people get when they do a search. What do they do when they find – so you mentioned the ‘held by’ element of a search result and that’ll tell you whether it’s at our archive or another archive – let’s assume someone’s faced with let’s say hundreds of results that are all at our archive, what do they do next? We’re back in the reading rooms where anyone can come and visit and do their research and today we’re going to talk about our catalogue. It’s more than that?

Matt: Right.

Or do we change or enhance those descriptions sometimes?Chrissy: So they should all arrive with the description that has come from the creating government department or legal system.