This new project, in association with the Essex Record Office, marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War, and will run for the four years 2014 to 2018. During this period the Friends of Historic Essex aim to raise funds to provide archival resources for educational study, family history research, and community histories.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
Do you have a family connection to the Great War in Essex, or hold photographs, letters, diaries, community records or official documents from wartime organisations? Your records can be digitally copied and included in the archive for public access, while you retain the originals. Alternatively, you may prefer to deposit your materials in the ERO for permanent preservation and safekeeping.
GIVE A DONATION
Donations will fund work to conserve, catalogue, and digitise the archives, both new acquisitions and some that are already held by the ERO. Examples of Great War records already stored in the ERO are: letters from The Front, photograph albums, school log books, wartime newspapers, written and recorded memories, military and civil defence records, and Great Eastern Railway plans.
HOW CAN MY DONATION HELP?
Your donation will help towards the permanent preservation of archives, increased public access, and provide a long-term benefit for future generations.
Archives may need to be catalogued and some repair work carried out to preserve the material before placing it in a protective folder or box. Where possible archives will also be digitised.
A selection of documents held at the ERO © ERO
Examples of costs are:
£3 provides a digital copy of one photograph (front and back).
£15 provides a handmade manila folder to store and protect up to 5 plans, or a digital copy of 10 sheets of letters.
£50 provides a digital copy of a 100 page volume.
How to Donate to the Project
At the Essex Record Office
Give your donation to a member of staff.
Send by Post
Send your donation, with details of your name and address, to the Hon. Treasurer, 11 Milligans Chase, Galleywood, Chelmsford, CM2 8QD.
Donate through Paypal
Visit our website at www.essexinfo.net/friends-of-historic-essex