Jersey Archive

The Jersey archive is a collection of imagery and documents that have been collected throughout the last few hundred years. This collection mostly consists of documents and is used for research and to keep an accurate depiction of how peoples lives have changed throughout time. The catalogue holds over 200,000 documents within it. A lot of this came from world war 2 during the occupation and liberation periods when documents such as over 31,000 registration cards of people alive during the occupation, including personal details such as name, address and date of birth. Every member of the public is able to access the archive through the use of the internet or by going to the archive itself. Lots of people use it for different things such as research about previous historical events such as the occupation, or to research their own personal family history. This archive is very different from the other archive I have visited, Societe Jeriaise. This is because this archive has a much larger quantity of documents within it, unlike Societe Jeriaise which did have documents, did not have nearly as many and had a lot of photographs and images from individuals depicting things like war and the occupation.

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