The National Archives are hoping to phase out their aging microfilm readers, and have made some of their more popular records on microfilm available as PDF files. These are available as free (but very large) downloads here
The records are not indexed and must be scrolled through just as you would if you were viewing the microfilm at Kew
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02-09-2011, 8:43 AM #1
National Archives Digital Microfilm
Sue Mackay
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03-09-2011, 2:21 AM #2
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Nice one Sue. Thankyou, brings some things a whole lot closer.
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Wendy
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03-09-2011, 4:52 AM #3CanadianCousinGuest
Duties Paid for Apprentice Indentures (IR/1)
As I mentioned here, the Digital Microfilm collection includes all of the Board of Stamps Apprenticeship Registers in IR/1. While the register books aren't indexed on TNA's site, Ancestry does have them indexed, and you can use their free search to check if your ancestors apprenticeships were recorded and in which year. Note that this collection only covers the period from 1710 to 1811 and does not include parish apprenticeships. Nevertheless, it's an excellent source of information for a period when few other records are available (e.g., before trade directories were widely published).
TimLast edited by CanadianCousin; 03-09-2011 at 4:53 AM. Reason: Bolded links for better visibility
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13-04-2012, 4:46 AM #4
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13-04-2012, 8:40 AM #5CoromandelGuest
The 'Technical requirements' blurb at the beginning says that the files are 'on average 400MB in size'. I tried to work out an approximate size per page from descriptions where both file size and number of pages are stated. There seems to be too much variation in the size of individual images to come up with an accurate answer. Some seem to be more than 2 MB per page, but others are much smaller.
Now that I have a speedier laptop and home broadband I am going to have a go at downloading PROB 10/639, 'wills proved at the royalist Prerogative Court of Canterbury in Oxford' in 1643. With 728 pages, which probably had to be scanned at pretty high resolution, I think this might be a really huge file. I'll let you know how I get on.
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13-04-2012, 3:07 PM #6
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13-04-2012, 10:51 PM #7
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14-04-2012, 7:35 AM #8CoromandelGuest
It was quite painless! The file was smaller than I expected (about 150 MB) and took about 3 minutes to download. My old laptop would have creaked and groaned if I'd tried to open a 728 page PDF file but no probs with the new one.
I've no shortage of material for palaeography practice now!
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14-04-2012, 8:22 AM #9Hugh ThompsonGuest
Thanks Sue, although I didn't find anything yet in the free lot I did find a will that has put me on a different track for one of my long lost gggg's, also it's faster to download big files to your USB flash drive (nano), I use it all the time with Internet Archive books, just make sure that you have enough free space.
Hugh.
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15-04-2012, 10:04 PM #10spisonGuest
I hope this isn't a really daft question (one where my IT son would roll his eyes), but the size of the download doesn't worry me. My 'worry' is the amount of storage space it will take. Would I store this behemoth on my hard drive and if I downloaded more than one file should I consider doing something else with them (aside from discarding them) when I'd read them.
Jane (Please don't laugh - just )
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