British Red Cross VAD database

Susan Hawkins; Geopel Helen

British Red Cross VAD database

Susan Hawkins (Contributor)
, Geopel Helen (Contributor)

School of Creative and Cultural Industries

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Abstract

A web-based resource, primarily for family historians searching for members of the British Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachments during World War 1. The project was run by BRC and funded by HLF. The Centre for the Historical Record was subcontracted by the BRC to manage the transcription of the membership records using volunteer transcribers. CHR recruited and provided online training for 800 volunteers to undertake this work. The transcribing work was performed and managed via a dedicated website. The project took 2 years and was completed in May 2016, producing a database of over 200,000 individuals who worked as VADs during the war. The whole database is available free of charge to the general public via a dedicated section of the BRC website.

Original language	English
Type	Archival database
Media of output	Website
Publisher	British Red Cross
Publication status	Published - 2016

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The work on this website is licensed under a Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, unless it says otherwise.

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https://vad.redcross.org.ukLicence: CC BY-NC

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