Thursday, 20 November 2014

Can you help?

Message from John Ravenscroft, Shropshire Family History Society.

This is a request which will not only be of interest to members of the Ruyton Local History group but possibly to others who are looking to get involved in Ruyton village archives.  I believe you will need to join the Society.

Shropshire Family History Society

Here is your chance to become a volunteer for a Shropshire Archives project, and all from the comfort of your own fireside - or computer desk!

Shropshire Archives are joining in with a national project to put on the Find My Past website digitised images of all the school admission registers that are held at the Archives up to 1914.  Volunteers have already digitised the pages and the images have been enhanced to make them very clear - occasionally clearer than the originals!  What we need now are volunteers to read through each image and transcribe a part of the information for each pupil.  The results will be put together as an index which will accompany the images when sent to Find My Past. 

All you need is a computer with Excel (or another spreadsheet program - let me know what you have and I will see if it is compatible) and a little time, between those boring jobs, to do a little typing.  The text is, by and large, easy to read and not many items for each pupil will need entering.

We do need this job completing as soon as possible so the more volunteers the quicker the job will be done.  There will be some checking as well as typing to be done but that should be an even quicker process.

I hope you can help us to bring this interesting information to researchers all around the World.

Best Regards

John Ravenscroft
Shropshire Family History Society
Phone: 01952 402846
Mobile 07974 387221
email:
john.ravenscroft@blueyonder.co.uk
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