Eating an elephant…

We have lots of information on our website to help people find, use and understand the archive and local study collections we look after. As part of our preparations to become the Heritage Hub, we are looking at these resources with a fresh eye to make sure they are accessible, relevant and up to date. It’s a big task and so we’re following the well - known advice on how to eat an elephant, and tackling it bit by bit! We started off with our online parish register guide as the website stats tell us that this is one of our most popular downloads. The majority of parish registers which we hold can now be viewed and searched on Ancestry’s website so we’ve updated the guide -and the online catalogue- to reflect this. We’ve also made sure our extensive series (64 in all!) of research “mini guides” are up to date and take account of our recent digitisation partnerships with Ancestry and Know Your Place. These short but informative little guides cover key topics and types of documents. They include useful tips on how to find specific collections in the online catalogue and are well worth checking out if you haven’t already seen them. Research guides - Gloucestershire Archives