Mass digitisation to make millions of newspaper pages available online and in the Library’s reading rooms.
Full announcement here.
May 212010
Stage one of our website ‘makeover’ complete. Welcome to the world of Web 2.0!
No significant content changes as such – as yet. But hopefully a slightly clearer layout and faster page-load; based on a well-tried and reliable CMS.
If you come across a broken-link, or any other problems, following this change-over; please let us know, via the Contact page.
Jun 242009
24 June 2009 marks Payton & Tate’s eighteenth birthday! Eighteen years since the firm was founded; following a management buy-out of the long-established probate genealogists Alfred A Smith & Son.
Eighteen years ago, it was essential to be based in Central London – to access the central birth, marriage and death indexes; all research was carried-out using paper or microfilm indexes; and word processors and in-office databases were still quite a ‘new’ idea. Now however, in-house and online databases have removed the need for a London location (there is not even a London index search room anymore) and IT features in just about every aspect of our business activities. Continue reading »
