50 WEBSITES TO WATCH 2021
Following a year of upheaval and unrest, there are brighter things on the horizon.
Although Covid-19 put paid to many plans this year, there were a few silver linings. The first lockdown prompted a wave of newcomers to start investigating their family history, while some archives – operating a skeleton staff but without the usual customer-facing workload – were able to focus on long-delayed catalogues, indexes and transcriptions and ready them for online launch. At the same time, many larger-scale projects, openings and events had to be put on hold – including several we previewed this time last year.
It’s a worrying period for all heritage services. However, despite the pain of 2020, there’s been progress across the board, with commercial websites, academic projects and regional archives promising new data, search tools, widgets and digital collections in 2021. And by this time next year, we will be within touching distance of
