This part of the National Archives
of Scotland website concerns the National Register of Archives
for Scotland (NRAS), which was set up in 1946 to compile a
record of collections of private papers in Scotland, to encourage
their care, and to make information about them available to
researchers and others.
How you can help
We need you to keep us informed about your holdings of private
papers if we are to provide researchers with accurate advice
on the existence and location of sources relating to their subjects.
You can help by sending details of your holdings of historical
papers, large or small, and by letting us know when you accession
or de-accession papers. |
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If you re-list a collection appearing on the Register, please remember
to let us have a copy of the new version. We are always pleased to
add lists of private papers to the Register, and these can now be
received both electronically and in conventional paper form.
The National Register of Archives for Scotland and TNA:HMC
Copies of all lists added to the Scottish Register are circulated
to The National Archives: Historical Manuscripts Commission (TNA:HMC)
who maintain the National Register of Archives (NRA). Therefore there
is no need for you to send your new lists of private papers directly
to them. TNA:HMC does not, however, send to the NRAS the lists which
it receives from other Scottish repositories.
Please note that TNA:HMC give all NRAS surveys a separate NRA reference.
For example, NRA 11000 refers to NRAS 234, papers of the Dukes of
Atholl.
Unlike the NRAS, TNA:HMC also collects details of the official
records of local authorities and health boards, and may approach
you direct for copies of your lists of these. In Scotland, lists
of these categories of records are collected by the Outreach Services
Branch of the National Archives of Scotland.
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