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A2A Catalogues
The catalogues in the A2A database have been drawn up over time by the
archivists who care for the archives they describe.
The level of detail provided in the catalogues varies. Some catalogues describe individual files
or documents in great detail, including references to people and places mentioned in them.
Others only give summary information on each document they describe. Other catalogues provide
a brief signpost to a whole archive.
Some terms used in A2A catalogues may not be familiar. The
A2A Glossary will help with some of these.
Even if individuals, families or groups are not mentioned in a catalogue,
they may still be recorded in archives. For example, individual people or groups of people from
Black, Asian and other ethnic minority communities which have been present in England for
several centuries are sometimes mentioned in archives, but as some catalogues are less detailed
than we would now expect, this may not be clear to users. If you need more information about
the content of particular archives, you can contact the relevant archives
repository: contact details are available
from search results or from the A2A Contributors page.
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