New concept of reforms elaborated in National Archives of Armenia further on will enable a chance to obtain archival documents in electronic way. The mechanism will be operated started 2013.Amatuni Virabyan, director of National Archives of Armenia informed Armenpress. ''The reforms seek to create an archive to meet the demands of today society. It should be available and affordable.
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A stunning collection of thousands of images of Australia cataloguing the growth of the colonies has been found after more than 150 years locked away in archives in London.
Detailed descriptions for nearly 12,000 tithe maps of England and Wales from the 1840s are now available online, offering a greater insight into local history.
The Georgia Archives would get more than $4.3 million next year in the governor’s proposed budget. But questions remain about whether that would mean more access for the public.
Family historians will be able to access 21 million birth, marriage, and death records free of charge, on Thursday 24th of January. Findmypast.ie based in Dublin, at the heart of Irish family history are hosting the inaugural “Irish History Family Day," to celebrate the launch of the records online.
Uruguay will open on Monday 21 January its diplomacy archives to that Malvinas war veterans can consult classified information referred to the South Atlantic conflict when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in April 1982.
The Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives will display 150 years of Redbird memories throughout 2013 to help mark Illinois State University’s Alumni Association sesquicentennial.
Oxford’s Regent’s Park College has received £488k from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and The Baptist Union Newington Court Fund (BUGB) to provide opportunities for people to learn about the important part Baptists played in the history of the United Kingdom and the world.
The digitization of books and other historical records of the Manipur State Archives has begun and the same will be made available to the public on the website of the archives.
Minnesota plans to make it easier for people researching their family histories to access old adoption information by digitizing roughly 5 million pages worth of records, including some that date to the late 19th century.
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington joins Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the January 10 presentation to President Karzai of a framed copy of a rare Afghan manuscript from LC’s collection.
In the early 1960s, Washington opened an archives building to safely store the state's most important documents. The building, constructed as a largely underground bunker and opened just a year after the Cuban missile crisis, served another purpose not widely publicized at the time: nuclear fallout shelter in case of attack.
The State Archives have closed for the third time in recent months. This time, the closure is due to the collapse of a staircase in the entrance of the archives building. Haaretz has learned that a booked guided tour due to take place later this week has been canceled as a result.
Documents which give a fascinating insight into life inside Scotland's Victorian lunatic asylums will be revealed to the public. Archives from Craig Dunain Hospital, in Inverness, will be available to the public in the Highland Archive Centre.
With its near collapse averted in October, the Georgia Archives still faces a perilous transition next year with likely new bosses but the same old budget crunch.