Its success prompted Norfolk Record Office to work with Microsoft to roll-out a trial system to help the descendants of thousands of USAAF servicemen learn more about their relatives’ service record. Norfolk County Council’s County HallThe record office holds hundreds of thousands of historical documents, including approximately 30,000 documents and images related to the USAAF Second Air Division. Though the vast amounts of documents at the office have been available online for some time via the Second Air Division Digital Archive, the scale of the collection made effective tagging and sorting of the archive a daunting task. Already more than 10,000 names have been identified and are browsable on the Norfolk Record Office’s website. “By connecting with family members from the past, people can form a deeply personal bond with Norfolk’s links to the United States.”

Source: Express February 20, 2024 05:17 UTC