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Flintshire Record OfficeAnnual Report

2017/18

Flintshire Record Office Annual Report 2017/182


Contents

Abbreviations p.4

List of staff p.5

Introduction p.6

User Statistics p.7

Outreach p.8

Conservation p.9

ICT p.10

Activities Behind the Scenes p.11

Staff Changes p.12

Staff Training p.12

Voluntary Work p.13

External Links p.13

Appendix A - List of Accessions p.14

Appendix B - Remote User Survey p.17

Appendix C – On-line Usage p.19

Front cover illustration: Christmas card from the Iscoyd Park collection, ref. D/IP/268: the greet-ing on the back reads, “To the Good Old DLI. From J.P. Hales”. Walter Godsal of Iscoyd Park was in the Durham Light Infantry in the First World War.

Flintshire Record OfficeThe Old RectoryHawardenCH5 3NRTel.: 01244 532364E-mail: [email protected]: www.flintshire.gov.uk/archives


Abbreviations

ARA Archives & Records Association

ARCW Archives & Records Council Wales

DA Denbighshire Archives

DCC Denbighshire County Council

FCC Flintshire County Council

FRO Flintshire Record Office

MALD Museums, Archives & Libraries Division, Welsh Government

TNA The National Archives

Items from our First World War centenary appeal: photograph of Gunner Sam Wainwright, Royal Field Artillery, killed at Arras a few days before his 21st birthday (ref. D/WW1/9/1/2); commemorative bookmark sent to grieving friends and relatives by his mother (ref. D/WW1/9/3/2).


Staff

Principal Archivist: Claire Harrington

Senior Archivist: Steve Davies

Archivists: Steph Hines

Liz Newman

Archive Assistants: Sue Copp

Sue Millward

Bridget Thomas

Teresa Davies

Conservator: Mark Allen

Admin Officer: Helen Waite (to September 2017)

Mandy Haslam (from November 2017)

1. Helen Waite at the Flintshire Excellence Awards ceremony 2015;

2. Christopher Williams, former County Archivist, d. July 2017 (image from PH/C/66)


Introduction

This year FRO has bid a fond farewell to three good friends. Christopher Williams, former County Archivist and, in retirement, active local historian and member of our Friends group, died in July 2017 (see photo p.5). In March of this year we lost both long-standing service user Peter Birks and even longer-standing friend and supporter Sir William Gladstone, the latter at the age of 92 after a long life of remarkable achievement. We were pleased to receive from him one last deposit just a few weeks before his death, chiefly Hawarden Estate records but also such delights as a pair of W.E. Gladstone’s stockings!

On a more cheerful note, the year has been positive for FRO in many ways. We have succeeded in renewing our Accredited status since achieving it for the first time in 2015. Following initial Accreditation it is necessary to undertake a minor review after three years and a major review after six. The national panel judged that we had maintained the necessary standard this time but feedback included a requirement to have made significant progress toward resolving our long-standing accommodation issue by the time we come up again for renewal in 2021. The accommodation issue is becoming more and more critical as new material continues to come in at a steady rate.

Working towards this goal, we have made positive steps towards a joint service with Denbighshire Archives. This work forms two strands: moving into a new, purpose-built archive repository, a goal which will take several years to achieve; and, in the meantime, working together across the two teams with a view to co-ordinating systems and ways of working in preparation for a formal merger. The whole of both teams met for a workshop at Theatr Clwyd just before Christmas. It was an enjoyable event with lots of exciting ideas coming forward. Looking forward to a new building, we have looked at a number of possible sites across the two counties and become very enthused by the new repository in Hereford, built on “passivhaus” principles - using minimum energy and therefore very low running costs will be an important part of our new, resilient service.

Again we have had an interesting year of new accessions. We were delighted to receive a large deposit of material from pioneering Welsh-medium school Ysgol Glan Clwyd in St Asaph (AN5104). Although it is not within the current county of Flintshire, it was in Flintshire when it was founded in the 1950s and we already had a small collection (E/SS/12). One intriguing item received has been a single letter, dated 1912, from the King of Afghanistan to the manager of the Halkyn lead mine, concerning a plan to send Afghan apprentices to Halkyn to learn current best practice (AN5149). Further research is required to find out whether they ever came and, if they did, something about their stay. Appendix A is a complete list of accessions during the year.

As always, we are grateful for grant funding from MALD, administered by ARCW. This year it has enabled us to send a member of staff to the ARA conference in Manchester and to purchase a PC and screen to run presentations in the foyer.

Claire Harrington


User Statistics

Archive Service 2017/8 2016/7 2015/6 2014/5 2013/4 2012/3

Searchroom visits 1,475 1,761 2,000 2,005 1,997 1,798

Postal enquiries 23 31 47 81 101 102

Telephone enquiries 286 326 421 361 401 425

E-mail/online enquiries 506 522 536 608 626 649

Documents consulted 4,707 4,423 4,849 5,991 6,296 4,779

Photocopies/printouts sold 2,458 2,273 3,454 3,263 3,385 3,968

Photographs sold 184 334 313 371 225 379

Photo permits issued 107 133 130 188 139 114

Research service orders; 37 30 30 32 45 38 1-to-1 sessions

Origin of searchers 2017/8 2016/7 2015/6 2014/5 2013/4 2012/3

Flintshire 1,037 1,188 1,409 1,306 1,081 997

Rest of Wales 179 250 277 286 428 234

Rest of UK 258 287 289 358 433 543

Overseas 21 36 25 55 55 24

Classification of searchers 2017/8 2016/7 2015/6 2014/5 2013/4 2012/3

Education & publication 182 313 591 439 465 326

Genealogy 625 766 626 607 816 944

Local history 512 555 626 809 545 420

History of house 57 45 62 69 66 39

Official & legal 78 82 95 81 105 69

Land of Legends exhibition, created for “Explore Your Archive” month 2017


Outreach

The Little Time Travellers have maintained their sessions in school holidays, which has proved popular. The May session (pirates) attracted the attention of the Made in Wales TV channel and we found ourselves appearing on the news bulletin that evening.

For older children we invite schools to bring groups for learning sessions and we have this year hosted visits from primary schools in Cilcain and Lixwm. We have also embarked on a new venture with Hawarden High School. A group of Welsh baccalaureate students spent two days at FRO in June. They undertook some gardening for us as well as a more conventional activity involving a collection of miscellaneous, Hawarden-related archive material.

School days formed the topic for an event we held in October, when we extended an open invitation to bring in old school photographs and memorabilia and reminisce about their school days. It was an outstanding success: we took in old school photographs from all over the county, some as deposits or donations, some on temporary loan for scanning and return. Sitting an old 11-plus exam was an optional extra, with Jill Jones and Hilary Davies winning the prize.

We also welcome visits by adult groups. This year we have hosted a session on family history for FCC library staff; a tour for the Flintshire Historical Society and introductory visits for a group of volunteers from Greenfield Valley and a newly formed, local, historic-houses group.

Open Doors in September has become a regular, annual event for FRO. We conducted behind-the-scenes tours and a village trail. Again our press release was picked up by the media and a piece about FRO appeared on BBC Radio Wales’ “Country Focus” programme. Another annual event is the national “Explore Your

Archive” campaign. We participated with an exhibition, “Land of Legends” (see photo p.7) and a “Meet the Conservator” day when Mark Allen demonstrated his craft to groups of fascinated visitors (see photo p.12).

We have been actively promoting our service in events away from our own building. Mark attended an ARA event at the House of Lords in London; Claire gave a talk on researching local history at Flint Library, participated in a postgraduate careers conference at Birmingham University and in the launch at Mold Library of a new book on Flintshire place names by the late Ken Lloyd Gruffydd and Hywel Wyn Owen.

Visitors to County Hall I hope will notice that we have an exhibition there on the Erddig Family Book conservation project.

Jill Jones and Hilary Davies, winners of the 11-plus competition at our Schools Nostalgia Day.


Conservation

As always, it has been a busy year in the conservation studio. Mark has continued his ongoing project re-guarding and repairing the valuation maps (ref. VR/1). These maps were created in connection with a valuation survey carried out between 1910 and 1915 to provide a base value of land for taxation purposes. He has also undertaken cleaning and packaging a series of Flintshire County Council letter books from the Clerk’s Dept, 1890-1940 (ref. FC/C/2).

We are very fortunate to have a conservator on our staff and this is reflected in the level of demand for his services from other organisations. This year he has repaired a series of large burial registers for Wrexham Cemeteries Dept and four volumes including a Bishop Morgan Bible and a 16th-century New Testament for St Asaph Cathedral.

In his role as instructor on the bookbinding and parchment modules of the ARA conservation training course, he has hosted study visits by trainee conservators from Berkshire Record Office, the National Library of Wales and the Highland Archives.

Conservation work 2017/8 2016/7 2015/6 2014/5 2013/4 2012/3

Exhibition items 20 30 26 0 68 20

Paper documents 1119 722 894 948 165 844

Parchment documents 20 15 11 4 14 60

Maps & plans 95 84 63 68 46 31

Manilla & hard cover bindings 35 26 29 32 38 37

Folders, boxes & OS 122 182 58 57 1003 351 map guards

Photographs 3 2166 43 24 2 15

Terry Davies from the National Library of Wales applying gold leaf to the spine of a book.


ICT

The long task of getting our catalogues onto our CALM database and available on-line in our CALMView catalogue is progressing steadily. Two large estate collections remain to be formatted and uploaded: Birch-Cullimore (D/BC) and Mostyn (D/M). In addition, we have been working at getting our library collection onto the system. There’s a long way to go but we’ve made a good start.

The partnership with the Archives HUB project has born fruit. All our catalogues but the two mentioned above are now available on the HUB and we receive statistics to record how much they are used (see Appendix C).

FRO, represented by Steve Davies, continues to be involved in the work of the all-Wales Digital Preservation Group. This year the group has produced a Wales-wide Digital Preservation Policy which has been distributed to senior officers of Welsh local authorities and out of that has come our own FRO Digital Preservation Strategy and a much-welcomed closer working with FCC’s IT service.

A generous donation from Mold Rotary Club has enabled us to buy an external hard drive of substantial size which will be instrumental in our preservation of digital material. More than half our electronic accessions have been backed up onto it and the rest will follow in the coming year.

On the website, our IT service has been working on our old indexes to make them more accessible to users. They don’t look very different but redundant and irrelevant entries have been removed and the confusing ‘wildcard search’ option has been replaced with ‘Any Text’, making them a lot more user friendly.

Our Flickr site grows steadily and continues to be popular with a current grand total of over one million views. We regularly post items of interest and upcoming events on Facebook and now work with Denbighshire Archives to share posts and inform of news and upcoming events. September 2017 was our most popular month ever by a long way, with 23,279 views. This was a combination of:

- ‘Drunkenness at Northop’ - 9,057 people reached and shared 14 times;

- the School Nostalgia Day - 7,275 people reached (see p.8).

Another popular story was ‘A Precocious Youth at Mold’, a 14-year-old boy who was sentenced to 3 years in a prison reformatory for stealing bottles of stout from a Mold brewery (2,871 views).

MALD/ARCW-funded screen in the foyer


Activities Behind the Scenes

FRO took its Stocktaking Week as usual in the last full week before Christmas. That week is always chosen because public demand at this time of year is relatively low so minimum inconvenience will be caused by closure of the search-room. It is an opportunity for staff to catch up with back-room tasks for which there is insufficient time whilst the search-room is open. The checking of our “stock” (the archive collections) is an important part but not the only activity to take place during this week.

As usual, the Monday morning was taken up with updating the area risk assessments - a Health & Safety requirement to ensure that our working environment is as safe as we can make it. The exception was the outside areas. As there had been a fall of snow over the weekend, the inspection was left until the snow had melted and we could see what we were doing.

For the rest of the week members of staff worked individually or in teams to achieve a variety of tasks including:

1. The Brymbo Steelworks collection, which had been catalogued off-site as part of the “Wales Showing our Metal” Project, was sorted, references matched with the catalogue, boxed and relocated;

2. Urban District Council files which had been catalogued originally with an accession number as part of the reference were renumbered, where necessary repackaged and locations confirmed;

3. Ordnance Survey maps for counties other than Flintshire were identified and the relevant county archive repositories asked if they would like them;

4. A map cabinet containing miscellaneous items was checked, items put in order and the location list updated;

5. 36 large maps and plans were packaged to archival standards;

6. New accessions requiring more suitable packaging were noted for future action.

There has been scaffolding up at the front of the building over the winter for various jobs, some of which had been waiting a long time - painting of window frames, some roof repair work and a new flue to go with our new boilers. It has been very trying for staff, residents of Rectory Lane and the mediaeval group Samhain, which keeps a trailer in one of our garages and has been unable to move it. It has also confused new visitors to our service, some of whom have walked all the way round the building before finding the way in. (see photo p.20.)

We have begun discussions with Denbighshire CC about merging the two archive services. Ultimately the goal is to have a new, purpose-built archive repository from which to run our joint service. In the meantime, the two teams have started working together with a workshop at Theatr Clwyd in December where we discussed what we wanted to achieve and how we could work together whilst still operating from two buildings.


Staff

Changes

In last year’s annual report the results of the user survey showed that our shortage of Welsh language skills was a disappointment to at least one user. We have managed this year to improve with two new, Welsh-speaking staff members. Teresa Davies joined us in April last year to take up a post of Archive Assistant and Mandy Haslam in November as our new ICT & Admin. Assistant. We were thrilled to welcome Mandy to our team although very sad to see Helen Waite leave us after 10 years of very efficiently and competently keeping FRO on an even keel.

Training

FRO staff have taken full advantage of training offered in-house by FCC. Everyone did an on-line training session on Domestic Abuse. Teresa, as a newcomer to the Council, undertook an IT induction as well as Manual Handling, Data Protection and First Aid. The older members of the team (and some of the younger) attended a session on the new pension fund website. Steph undertook management training in the form of ILM2. The first-aiders either requalified or undertook an annual refresher.

As always, MALD has been generous with the range of training offered. This year Liz and Claire went to Bangor University for training on Digital Copyright and Teresa attended a session on Managing Photographs at the Welsh Government Offices, Llandudno Junction.

Steph and Claire attended a one-day introduction to digital preservation run by the Digital Preservation Coalition at the John Rylands Library in Manchester; Mark travelled to Wakefield for ARA-run training on the conservation of large maps.

Steph and Mark attended the annual ARA conference this year in Manchester. Steph and Teresa attended the ARCW Forum at Maesmawr Hall near Caersws. Mark went to Bedford for the Conservation By Design conference.

In the autumn Steph submitted her portfolio for ARA registered status and we were all delighted to learn in the new year that she was successful. Congratulations to her.

Mark Allen and visitors to the “Meet the Conservator” event (see p.8)


Voluntary Work

As always I’d like to take this opportunity to say “thank you” to all our volunteers. We’ve had a few new projects started this year: typing up the shipping crew lists; typing up details of planning applications from the 1930s/40s; scanning the print collection and the notes on the photographic collection. We are very grateful for all the work our volunteers do.

The Wales-wide Cynefin project to get the content of tithe maps and schedules online came to a close this year. Our local volunteer group, co-ordinated by Steph, did a great job, completing the inputting for Flintshire and doing a lot of checking work as well. Steph and volunteer Beryl attended a celebratory event at the National Library.

External Links

Staff continue to be involved in professional issues at local and national levels. Steve Davies is working on the Archives Hub and represents FRO on the Digital Preservation Group of ARCW; Liz Newman is an assessor on ARA’s registration scheme and mentors registration candidates; Steph Hines represents FRO on MALD’s Archives Marketing Steering Group whilst Mark Allen chairs ARA’s Preservation & Conservation Section committee, is a visiting lecturer on the Aberystwyth University archives course, an instructor on the ARA conservation course and FRO representative on the North Wales Emergency Planning Group.

Claire Harrington, as Principal Archivist, attends meetings of ARCW, Friends of the Clwyd Archives, the Flintshire Historical Society and the Flintshire War Memorials steering group. Following her training in “peer review” for the Archive Accreditation scheme, she has acted as peer reviewer for two repositories seeking accreditation.

Carrie Farnell from the Highland Archives working on a parchment document


Appendix A

Flintshire/Clwyd County Council 5113 FCC Arts Development: CDs & DVDs of arts events, 2009-2014 5143 FCC & CCC miscellaneous files, 1960s-1990s 5165 FCC Clerk’s files, pre-1975 5169 Flintshire electoral registers, 2016/7

Other Local Authorities 5112 Records of hospitals in Mold and Rhydymwyn, 1930-1972 5153 Records of various district and community councils, 1850-1983

Schools 5104 Records of Ysgol Glan Clwyd, 1956-2016 5110 Hawarden County School magazine, 1928-1929 5114 Newsletters from Connah’s Quay and John Summers High Schools, 1998-2012 5124 Bettisfield School log book, 1891-1905 5127 Newsletters of Argoed High School & Ysgol Castell Alun, 2007-2014 5132 Flint High School newsletter, 2008-2014 5133 Photographs of John Summers High School, 1960s-2016 5136 Wood Memorial School newsletter, 2017 5139 Records of Ysgol y Fron, Holywell, 1850s-2016 5164 Elfed High School newsletter, 2010-2016 5167 Oriel House Prep School cricket score book, 1931

Businesses 5130 C.A. Parsons & Co.Ltd manual for turbines &c. installed at Connah’s Quay

Power Station, 1950s5149 Letter from King of Afghanistan re sending apprentices to lead mine in Halkyn,

1912

Property records 5102 Title deeds re property in Hawarden, 1772 5119 Papers re property in Cilcain and Halkyn, 1870s-1890s 5151,5166 Hawarden Estate records, 1894-2009

Church in Wales 5127 Hawarden & Buckley parish magazines, 2009-2014 5132 Shotton parish magazine, 2010-2011 5162 Photos of All Saints Church, Ffynnongroyw, building and events, 20th C.

Nonconformist Churches 5101 Records of local Methodist circuits, 1934-1939 5121 Circuit plans, Connah’s Quay & Hawarden Circuit, 1955/6 5132 Mancot Presbyterian Chapel magazine, 2013-2016 5172 Photographs of URC Tabernacle, Holywell, c.2003


Appendix A Accessions 2017/8

Clubs/Societies 5107 Records of Flintshire County Cricket Club, 1993-2014 5117 Records of Hawarden W.I., 2007-2016 5125 Minute books of Flint Chamber of Trade, 1934-1973 5134,5157 Records of Hawarden Park Cricket Club, 1983-2016 5170 Records of St Deiniol’s Masonic Lodge, 1994-2016 5171 Annual reports of N. Wales Assoc. of Church Bell Ringers, 2015, 2017

Personal Papers 5099 Papers re D-Day activity of 6th Airborne Division, 20th C. 5100 Membership cards of local bowling clubs, 1998-2007 5105 Photos and personal papers of Frank Pinfold of Buckley, 1907-1916 5109 Gladstone family trees, n.d. 5111 Williams family bulletin, 2016 5135 Notebook of Rhyl scouter, 1930/1 5138 Gladstone family photographs, c.1900 5142 Records of County Councillor Ray Dodd, 1990s 5150 Tuck family photographs, postcards, &c., 1911-1923 5154 Gladstone family photographs, 19th & 20th C.

Printed items 5103 Gladstone Memorial edition of Black & White publication, 1898 5108 Election leaflets, 2017 5116 Leaflet re tower and bells of St Deiniol’s Church, Hawarden, 21st C. 5120 Photocopy programme of Christmas service at Ysgol Croes Atti, 2005 5122 Misc printed items re Saltney, Broughton & Bretton, 1993-2001 5137 The Graphic, Gladstone Funeral edition, 1898 5156 Booklet re Mary Edwards of Llanferres (b.1895), 2018 5158 Atlas y Cymry, 1960s 5161 Alyn & Deeside by-election leaflets, 2018 5173 Article on Liberal archives at FRO, 2017

2017 Christmas cards on display


Appendix A Accessions 2017/8

Electronic media 5106 Scanned copies of aerial photographs of Flint area, c.19905120 Scanned copies of photographs of Flint & Oakenholt, 1990s5123 Scanned copies of pp. from notebook re Crowndale Artificial Marble Works,

Llanfynydd, 19575128 Pdf article re Primitive Methodist squatters of Newtown Mountain, 20175129 Electronic copy of book The History of the Parish of Holywell and Associated

Buildings, 20175131 Scanned copies of photos of Shotton Steelworks, 1930s-19815144 Sain Clwyd Sound magazine for the visually impaired, 2008-20175148 Dissertation re sketchbooks in UK museums, archives &c., 20175152 Photographs of 1889 Bagillt Esiteddfod chair, 20075163 Aerial photographs of archaeological dig at Ysceifiog, 20135168 Account of WW2 Royal Navy motor launch,2017

Miscellaneous 5115 Misc. records of Flintshire

interest, 20th/21st C.5124 Scrapbook re events in

Bettisfield, 1893-19505126 Microfilm copies of various

parish registers and newspapers, 1888-2015

5141 Misc. items re Sychdyn, 19th/20th C.

5145 Maps, photos and publications of Flintshire interest, 1908-1998

5146 Archaeologist’s plan of Pinfold Lane, Buckley, 1984

5155 Misc. items re Rhyl, 1953-19725159 Various items re Mold, 1906-

1980s5160 Cine films of Flintshire and

wider interest, 1964-1978

Item from AN5166. A poem about W.E. Gladstone in French and printed on fabric.


Appendix B Remote User Survey 2017

This is a regular event run by ARA’s National Surveys Group. It targets alternately visitors to record offices and remote users of archive services. This year’s survey was of remote users and took place between September and November 2017. During this period all enquirers who contacted us by letter or e-mail were invited to take part. Altogether, 86 people were invited to take part. 36 responses were received, two of which were in Welsh.

The survey gives us a profile of our remote users as well as telling us what they think of the service they received. Ages ranged from 38 to 91 with a fairly even balance between women and men: 20 women to 16 men. The majority were retired (21) although 10 were employed and some preferred not to say. All our respondents came from within the UK: 12 from Flintshire; 5 from elsewhere in Wales; 12 from England and one from Northern Ireland. This is unusual - we usually have a handful of enquirers from Australia, New Zealand, USA or more exotic places.

For most, this was the first time they had contacted FRO and they had found out about the service through our website. Family history was the most popular reason for contacting us. There was a variety of reasons for using remote contact rather than making a visit. 13 lived too far away but an equal number were using this as initial contact to gather information in preparation for making a personal visit. Only one considered our opening hours inconvenient.

Our users are generally pleased with the service they receive. Overall, 29 considered the service “very good”, five “good” and one “adequate”. For clarity of response every respondent thought us either good or very good. 15 considered the website “very good”, 12 “good” and four “adequate”. This is especially important as more and more people find out about us and contact us through the website. Out of all the responses to all the questions there was only one “poor” – for promptness of response. The overall opinion is that we’re great!

Everyone was given the opportunity to comment. Most chose not to but we received the following:

• The service is very good no complaints;

• Keep up the good work;

• More background on older properties

• It would be good if the Archives resumed 5 day week opening;

• Refreshments.

Many thanks to those who made the first two comments. For the third - the amount of information we have on any individual property is very dependent on what archive material has been deposited with us. We are always pleased to hear from people who have material of Flintshire interest which they might consider depositing here. The fourth comment presumably is from the one person who found our opening hours inconvenient. In the current economic climate we are unable to resume 5-day opening although we hope this will not last for ever. From a user of our remote service, the last comment is more than a little baffling!


Appendix C On-line Usage

FRO pages of FCC website

2017/8 2016/7 2015/6 2014/5 2013/4 2012/3

April 3,334 3,939 4,591 3,978 448 529

May 3,049 3,792 4,229 5,036 462 491

June 2,949 3,016 4,087 4,478 426 506

July 3,544 3,433 4,106 3,912 471 538

August 3,979 3,719 4,786 5,242 611 468

September 3,361 5,153 4,501 4,387 514 446

October 3,924 4,105 4,342 5,169 5,057 490

November 3,678 3,844 3,888 6,265 6,717 476

December 2,492 2,814 2,710 4,224 4,894 317

January 4,370 4,235 3,866 6,194 6,478 508

February 3,881 4,881 4,413 5,581 4,965 534

March 2,728 4,257 3,102 5,695 4,402 453

Total for year 41,289 47,188 48,621 60,161 35,448 5,756

Flickr

2017/8 2016/7 2015/6 2014/5 2013/4 2012/3

April 210 258 334 544 494

May 255 340 765 661 521

June 184 342 231 453 242

July 156 271 255 531 413

August 222 743 245 590 347

September 250 367 196 396 363

October 318 322 302 572 433 488

November 250 543 274 709 398

December 180 239 533 940 408

January 335 321 373 546 441 1,717

February 213 339 454 527 470 746

March 184 295 419 700 489 553

Total for year 2,757 4,380 4,381 7,169 5,019 3,504

From 6/7/2012

to 6/11/2012

From 6/11/2012

to 31/1/2013


Appendix C (continued) On-line Usage

Facebook

2017/8 2016/7 2015/6 2014/5 2013/4

April 6,330 7,782 3,181 902

May 6,164 5,728 9,226 2,849

June 7,335 5,850 5,013 1,509

July 5,997 6,234 10,489 2,397

August 4,909 5,768 6,248 1,822

September 23,279 9,152 2,126 1,504

October 15,878 2,581 11,981 2,050

November 10,841 11,647 7,034 4,511

December 4,121 9,244 11,222 10,143

January 9,700 9,858 5,144 6,053

February 12,454 8.939 3,265 7,095

March 14,679 1,775 9,679 7,921 1,064

Total for year 121,687 84,558 84,608 48,756 1,064

CALMView

Currently we are not able to extract usage figures for this. The nearest we can get is to note the number of hits on the “Catalogues and Indexes” page on the website, which contains the link to CALMView. This shows:

2017/8 2016/7 2015/6 2014/5

April 217 244 344

May 242 252 263

June 193 204 203

July 231 222 263 362

August 273 263 318 377

September 280 244 275 341

October 284 339 272 387

November 252 273 253 436

December 167 170 162 265

January 316 299 277 419

February 310 327 324 406

March 217 324 267 382

Total for year 2,774 3,161 3,221 3,375


Appendix C (continued)

Archives Hub

During the current year a substantial quantity of our catalogues has been uploaded onto the Archives Hub, a UK-wide, on-line catalogue. It is very early days but so far usage looks promising.

2017/8

April

May

June

July

August

September

October 2,475

November

December

January 1,339

February 1,966

March 2,183

Total for year 7,963

Find My Past

It should be noted that Flintshire parish registers and school admission registers are available on the genealogy website Find My Past. Unfortunately, FMP is unable to provide us with user statistics.

The Old Rectory under scaffolding (see p.11).