In this post, those working with the volunteers at each of the project institutions reflect on the project so far, and in particular on what…
We’re delighted that this week’s post is from a guest author, Chris Abbott. We met at the Family Tree Live event last year and he’s…
In the final part of this run of blog posts, NRM volunteer Philip James puts into context one of the cases he found when transcribing…
In this guest post, National Railway Museum volunteer Philip James takes us back into an era outside project coverage, and to an accident not usually…
From time to time we’ve commented on the young age of some of the people encountered in our database – for example, the case of…
With the news just in that our excellent NRM volunteer team have finished transcribing the final batch of state accident reports, covering 1900-1910 and amounting…
How do we connect people & place in our database? Most of the time there are the obvious links: the cases our project is concerned…
In this guest post Norman Gamble, the Archivist of the Irish Railway Record Society (IRRS), introduces the Society and its archives – including the great…
For some staff, getting to or from work was a matter of walking. For permanent way staff, who might be working on track many miles…
Railway working produced all sorts of odd terms, specific to the industry. Some of these are less obvious than others – but one which might…