ARHIVSKI VJESNIK 41. (ZAGREB, 1998.)

Strana - 49

I. Barnes, The Scottish archive network, Arh. vjesn., god. 41 (1998), str. 45-49 There are approximately 475,000 index entries for wills from 1500 to 1875 to be converted to electronic form. The indexes of persons, places, occupations and dates will be searchable electronically on the network. It will be possible to search in the electronic search room for, for example: - all the wills of the residents of Falkland from 1600 to 1700 - all the wills of Glasgow bakers between 1800 and 1850 - the wills of specific people, famous or not. There are about 3.3 million images to be digitised. The electronic image of the will, electronically linked to the index entry, will be available in the NAS historical search room or on payment of a fee. Part 3: The Development of the Existing Electronic Catalogues in the NAS The wills and other existing automated catalogues can be made available not just in the search room of the NAS in central Edinburgh but throughout the whole of Scotland and elsewhere. The holdings of the NAS comprise: - Records of the central government institutions of the pre-Union Kingdom of Scotland, parliament, privy council and the great offices of state such as chancery and exchequer; - Some of the records of the post Union government of Scotland including - Records of all the Scottish Office departments as well as UK departments which have a separate body of Scottish records; - Records of the Scottish divisions of nationalised industries and their earlier predecessors - rail, coal, gas, steel etc.; - Records of the central courts, both criminal and civil, the High Court and the Court of Session; - Records of local courts, the sheriff courts, commissary courts etc.; - The two great registers of private rights and property in Scotland, the Register of Deeds and the Register of Sasines; - Local authority records, the community charge and valuation rolls; - Records of the Church of Scotland and the Free Churches; - Special collections of shipbuilding records, of maps and plans and of seals; - Over 500 collections of private papers, including large collections of papers of both families and businesses. The NAS has already automated many of its catalogues and they can already be searched electronically to file, bundle or item level. These also will be made available to the network. 49