Isle of Man DFAS Heritage Volunteering

As many of you will realise from reading the NADFAS magazine, heritage volunteering is one of the keystones of the organisation’s work. Isle of Man DFAS is pleased to announce that it, too, has begun a programme of heritage volunteering with Manx National Heritage.

To date, the small group of volunteers has been involved in a number of projects, many of them initiated by the necessity of processing material for the, now opened, imuseum. Having successfully helped to process key photographic collections for digitalisation for the Museum, volunteers are now concentrating on 19th legal documents from the Isle of Man Registry – wills, debts, house and land transfers etc. Other projects involve checking and classifying documents stored in the stack, and one volunteer has started to enter 19th century prison records onto spreadsheet – debtors, transportees, single mothers, are all there.

Needless to say, Manx National Heritage is very grateful for this assistance and there is every sign that the amount and variety of volunteer work will increase in the future. If anyone is interested in such work, please contact committee member, .