Now that you have sorted your family archive and know what you have, as well as labelled and stored your records, it is time to use your records to begin expanding upon and tying together the stories in your family archive! Much like in Part 1 of this...
Research
About our researchers and some “how to” guides and advice for those wishing to contribute.
Part 2: Storing Your Family Archive
Last week we established the importance of treasuring our family archives, and the value of doing so during this period of Lockdown. We also went through some tips on the best way to begin sorting through your archives at home, how to choose what to keep and...
Part 1: Sorting Your Family Archive
Some of us probably have excellently organised photo albums, scrap books and journals that resemble the most up to date of archive strong-rooms. However, many of us still have stacks of boxes hidden in the attic gathering dust, waiting to be re-discovered and...
Contributing research
Contributing to existing articles Comments section You can add comments below existing articles. Bishopsteignton Heritage wish to encourage discussion wherever possible. Interesting information may be incorporated into the article or if there is sufficient quantity...
Website protocol
Summary Paragraph The Summary paragraph should NOT contain any unique information that is not in the article. If necessary repeat the info further down, especially if it requires a reference. Links, References, Superscript Please put the superscript nos at the end of...
How to upload research to the website
Benefits Creates a central repository for the storage of research Allows a method for researchers to communicate, contribute to and use researched data prior to publication Provides a coherent method for locating relevant information for both researchers and the wider...
Research Advice
Notes on research methods and sources from a paper given by Ian Roberts. The ‘R’ word. Mention it in polite company and people glaze over or move on muttering 'that’s not for me', 'a bit geeky', 'I’m not very educated' and so on. The truth is that anyone can research...