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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Topic started by: Jessie 46 on Monday 19 April 21 18:50 BST (UK)
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Just heard NRH search rooms are opening on 4Th May - shorter sessions and all social distancing etc.
to be in place . Information on their website .
Email them to book your space
Jessie 46
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That's good news Jessie :)
Rosie
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It's a very restricted service, however, and it won't be open to us amateur hobby researchers in the meantime. Here's an extract from the web site
In order to maintain social distancing and increase ventilation within our search room we have reduced the available search room seats to a total of 9.
Initially, seat bookings are only available for those customers who require access for business purposes and only one visit per customer/company per week will be offered. If bookings are not full, remaining seats will be offered for booking from the preceding Wednesday at 12 noon on a rotational basis to those customers/companies who have requested more than one seat per week.
You may only visit the Dundas ScotlandsPeople search room for a maximum period of 4 hours in total.
Our day search fee charge has been reduced to £7.50 to reflect the fact that the maximum search period is 4 hours. No season tickets are being offered at this time due to the restricted service.
The opening hours are 10:00 to 15:00 to allow for staggered arrivals and departures.
To ensure that social distancing is maintained, you will not be offered access to printers or in turn prints during your search room visit and neither is an onsite scanning service available so it will not be possible to remedy any poor images encountered during your visit. Also, no access to any form of microfilm or microfiche will be offered.
Me, I reckon I will wait until the access is back to something more like normal.