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News from National archives

mikejee

mikejee

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Below is a copy of a post of a message from the National archives on a genealogy forum:

We’re pleased to confirm that we will be giving everyone free access to our digitised collections very soon, but it’s taking our amazing digital team a bit of time to make it happen.

They’re facing similar challenges to the rest of the world with regard to connecting to our various technical systems while working from home, and many of them are also juggling childcare duties. Stay tuned for an update soon!

EDIT: To clarify, we’re referring to digitised collections that are available on our website (and usually chargeable) – at this stage, this doesn’t extend to our collections on other sites.
 
For the above see:
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Free access to digital records - The National Archives

We are making digital records available on our website free of charge for the time being, while our reading room services are limited. Registered users will be able to order and download up to ten items at a time, to a maximum of 100 items over 30 days. The limits are there to try to […]
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

However it states that to find out what is available for download, you have to search for records ‘available for download only’. Cannot see that option in /discovery
 
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