-------- Original Message -------- Subject: FFHS-NEWS Changes at The National Archives Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:41:33 -0000 From: News from the Federation of Family History Societies Two announcements from TNA today ? (a) car park charges to apply from 27 April; (b) from Monday, 19 April 2010 a new online process to order copies of documents that are not already downloadable from TNA?s website. Car park charges There will be flat-rate charge of £5 per day. Annual pre-pay tickets, offering a substantial discount, will also be available. Visitors who drive to The National Archives without having booked and paid for a space will not be able to access the car park. Full details can be found from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/446.htm. Copies of documents This new streamlined service will provide an instant quote based on the average cost of copying similar documents and means customers will no longer have to wait ten days for a quote. As some documents can contain hundreds of pages, where a customer does not know which pages within a document they need copies of, a search fee of £45 will be introduced to recover the cost of searching for the information. The full announcement can be seen at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/445.htm. Roger Lewry FFHS Archives Liaison 18 March 2010 -------- Original Message ends -------- -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk