Warwickshire's Past Unlocked - About the catalogue

Warwickshire's Past Unlocked

About the Catalogue

About the catalogue
Latest additions
Information for Mac/other web browser users
Using images or text from the website
Viewing the original documents
Glossary
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About the catalogue
Warwickshire's Past Unlocked is an online catalogue of the holdings of Warwickshire County Record Office Warwickshire County Record Office uses DS CALM software which enables us to record detailed information about all our collections. Every collection that is deposited with us is given an accession number and a brief description. This is then entered into CALM. DServe is the name of the software which enables the data on CALM to be made available on the internet. After this, each document in the collection is catalogued and given a unique number and a more detailed description. All this information is then entered into CALM. This can be a lengthy process and so some collections only contain a brief description, known as a collection level description. Currently, we have about 23% of our total holdings catalogued into CALM and available in Warwickshire's Past Unlocked (over 89,000 item-level records). We update *Warwickshire's Past Unlocked* every 3 months, and will provide information about some of the new collections on this web page. So if you do not find what you are looking for then please check our site regularly for new additions. The last time we updated this catalogue was: November 2009 We will next be updating the catalogue in March 2010 Back to the top
Latest additions
August's update included the following: Fetherston-Dilke of Maxstoke (CR 2981 and CR 4253) Three large collections of deeds for Beausale, Farnborough and Warwick (CR 144, CR 4238 and CR 127 respectively), and several small deposits of one or two deeds. Building Regulation Plans: 783 plans have been added from the County Council records in WCC18, mostly for the Alcester and Shipston on Stour areas. 1910 Finance Act records: descriptions of over 620 maps with property details have been added from records in CR 3013, CR 3276 and CR 3277. The Warwickshire Petty Sessions catalogue is now available! Earlier additions include the following: Waller family of Woodcote archives (CR0026) The 1910 Finance Act records (which includes various collection numbers) Bosley and Harper of Shipston on Stour, auctioneers, valuers and land agents (CR1661) The Howlett and Grimes families of Bedworth and Bubbenhall (CR2417) Warwickshire records from Noel Hyde of Worcester, solicitor (CR0085) A largish collection of aerial photographs of places in Warwickshire and elsewhere (PH0970) Warneford Hospital, Leamington Spa: various accessions County Licence Office records (Motor Vehicle Taxation): CR1827 Catalogues of Baptist church records: various accessions Back to the top
Information for Mac/other web browser users
If you are using a MAC computer or a browser other than Microsoft Internet Explorer, then you may find that the catalogue pages do not display properly. We are aware of this problem, and are working with our supplier to address this. If you find any problems with any part of this site then please contact us and we will try to help. Back to the top
Using images or text from the website
Copyright to all images is retained by the individual rights holder. They have kindly made their collections available for non-commercial private study & educational use. You may only download or copy the content for educational or personal non-commercial use. No copying, storage, redistribution or publication of any content is permitted without the express permission of Warwickshire County Record Office or the owners of such content or their authorised persons, if other than Warwickshire County Record Office. Copyright in the catalogue descriptions themselves lies with Warwickshire County Record Office. Back to the top
Viewing the original documents
You can find out more about consulting original documents by Visiting Warwickshire County Record Office at any time during our opening hours. Using our research or copying services. Employing a private researcher to research or transcribe the records for you. If you would like to visit the record office to view documents of interest, please make a note of the document reference (given in the DocRefNo field of the record description) as you will need this to order the document. If you require further information about accessing our records, please contact us. Some of our records are unavailable for general access, and this is usually indicated in the AccessStatus field of the record description. For more details about requesting information from records that are unavailable for general access, please go to our Freedom of Information page. Back to the top
Glossary
If you find a word you do not understand there is a glossary available to help you. Back to the top
Feedback
We are always keen to know if there are any areas of our public service that need improving and this includes the use of this catalogue. Feedback form. Back to the top

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