Thanks to everyone who dropped into the Scottish Indexes (www.scottishindexes.com) conference yesterday to listen to my talk There's Been a Murder - the Mount Stewart Murder of 1866, which seems to have been well received - I don't think I've ever had so much positive feedback for a talk! If you're interested in learning more about the murder, my book The Mount Stewart Murder is available at The History Press via https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/the-mount-stewart-murder/9780752460208/.
Thanks to Emma and Graham for putting together another great event, and the couple have already announced that the next conference, Scottish Indexes Conference X, will take place on May 22nd. Well worth tuning in for - heck, Star Wars only got as far as Episode 9...!
Some gleaning from yesterday's conference:
- Dr. Irene O'Brien mentioned that the proposed records indexes from Glasgow City Archives have been slightly delayed in going online, but she did also provide some further information about how they will appear online - and one other MASSIVE bit of good news along with that, in that the catalogue for Glasgow City Archives will finally be going online in the very near future! It is proposed that the databases going online will be tied into the catalogue in some way - we're talking poor law indexes, episcopal church records, police records, and a lot more - the delay is in working out how that will be facilitated. The databases will be wonderful, but the catalogue is by far the bigger story, because with a catalogue you can find out if records exist in the first place, and that's often the bigger battle!
- Michelle Leonard mentioned that applications for military service records from the Ministry of Defence are now taking well over a year to be honoured due to the Covid disruptions, well beyond the normal six month period of the past. The service is available at https://www.gov.uk/get-copy-military-service-records.
- Audrey Collins mentioned that the UK's National Archives website (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) in London will be adding a new census page/portal at some point in the near future.
- Emma Maxwell mentioned that Tessa Spencer's talk describing the new kirk session records release will be hosted on the Scottish Indexes website shortly. I'll post a note when this happens.
On another point, a student on one of my Pharos courses has pointed out that the Saved Searches menu item from the top of the ScotlandsPeople home page (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk) has seemingly disappeared. In fact, if you click on the Saved Images tab, you will now find it as a menu option in there! It's just part of the redecorating of the site to facilitate the new Virtual Volumes platform addition.
Chris
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