The National Archives (UK) holds Catalogue Week each November, mostly unnoticed in the family history community. I was fortunate to be at Kew for one year and attended presentations. Since COVID it has become an online event, bringing together a rich, varied selection of current or recently completed projects.
This year’s event features eight blog posts and recorded presentations covering an array of subjects and periods.
Catalogue Week 2024 had eight posts and recorded presentations. Here’s my selection of three blog posts of most significant family history interest.
Cataloguing WO 423: Army Other Ranks and Nurses service records
Jack Ord explains the processes and challenges of cataloguing The National Archives’ biggest-ever acquisition of military service personnel records, discusses some of the material in the files, and highlights the latest project milestones.
Cataloguing WO 399, nursing service records
A blog post on the work of a team of volunteers who are partway through 17,000 or so individual service files of women who served in two of the largest units of military nurses during the First World War, and it transpires, some way beyond.
Maritime Royal Artillery Gunners on Defensively Armed Merchant Ships
A recently completed project to catalogue by name all the ships appearing in the series WO 435, Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS): Ships’ Cards.