The National Archives are pleased to inform you that we have recently launched a test version of the Manorial Documents Register (MDR) advanced search within Discovery:
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/manor-search
We would like to offer you the opportunity to become familiar with the new look tool whilst it is available as a beta service and provide feedback. This marks the beginning of a period of time where the MDR and updated Discovery service will run in parallel.
Discovery has been developed with requirements and feedback from staff, users, archives services and interest groups and we have been working on this Finding Archives<http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/finding-archives.htm> element of Discovery since 2011.
This service has been in development for some time and we are grateful for your patience during this process. We are confident that we have developed a search which returns results in accordance with the intentions of the Register. It is important to note that whilst the search results may not always follow the structure of the previous MDR search, the information returned is the same.
Since beginning this process, we have been grateful for feedback about the importance of the Manorial Documents Register and the delivery of this information within Discovery. We would like to take this opportunity to reiterate that any further feedback received from you will be taken into account and reviewed.
By moving this information into Discovery, which is robust, stable and should be future proofed, we are ensuring that we can continue to provide a good service to users and contributors in the coming years. We hope that new users will be able to discover the value of this information through its exposure in Discovery and most importantly that existing users will continue to use it to support their research.
Please note that the four counties added to the MDR in 2015 (Derbyshire, Somerset, Staffordshire and Sussex) do not appear in the 'historic county' menu at present. These will be added in due course. In the meantime, the data for all of these counties is available on Discovery and can be searched by Manor name and Parish name.
We have developed and updated existing help and guidance in order to support the use of the MDR. This can be found here:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help/accessing-records-of-mdr.htm
If you would like to provide feedback about this new feature or any other part of Discovery please do so using the 'Send us feedback' link on the Discovery home page (http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/discovery-nationalarchives) or send feedback directly to: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Yours sincerely,
Archives Sector Development
The National Archives
Kew, Richmond, Surrey,
TW9 4DU
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