Elar digitized 760 metric books for the State Archive of the Lipetsk Region

2021: Digitization of 760 metric books

760 metric books of the churches of Lipetsk, Lebedyansky, Usman districts of the Tambov province of the XVIII - early. XX centuries (territory of the Lipetsk region) were digitized by specialists of the ELAR Corporation for the State Archive of the Lipetsk Region. Elar announced this on February 17, 2021.

The digitization of metric books became one of the main areas of the archive's activity in 2020-2021. In the Lipetsk region, they are working on the creation of a single information space for archival institutions in the region, and metric books are one of the most popular types of documents among users. Parish metric books, which until 1918 were the only documents registering acts of civil status of residents of the Russian Empire, are an invaluable source of data for historical and genealogical research.

The digitization of metric books at OKU "HALO" is the most convenient way to preserve and provide information, since every year users increasingly turn to these archival materials and are increasingly interested in studying the history of the family, of the kind, "comments Elena Anatolyevna Astafurova, director of the OKU" State Archive of the Lipetsk Region. " - The information age makes its own adjustments to the world of dialogue between archival sources and the researcher, and digital technologies make it possible to implement the most global ideas for storing documents in a virtual plane.

Digitization work with such valuable historical funds is the observance of special safety standards and the use of specialized scanning technologies. The paper is inevitably dilapidated from time to time, the text has the property of fading. Therefore, only professional planetary scanners are suitable for digitizing such documents, which, in addition to high-quality copies, provide contactless scanning and the ability to place voluminous sewn books on specialized cradles. The precautionary scanning technologies underlying ELAR scanners, combined with the professionalism of a large staff of specialists, provided high-quality and safe digitization of metric books of the State Archive of the Lipetsk Region.