The Lodgement Office
Bring us a historical document — a scanned PDF or a photograph — and our transcription engine will produce a faithful transcript and a fully searchable facsimile, while you watch it work. Most documents are ready in a minute or two.
Sign in and present your document at the counter — PDF or image, up to 40 pages. We look for material roughly 50 years or older. Declare that you have the right to deposit it.
The Examiner checks the document — its age, nature and suitability for a public archive — before a penny of transcription is spent. Material about living people is set aside, not transcribed.
Your document is checked twice for accuracy, every page. In a minute or two you receive the transcript and searchable facsimile — yours to keep. An archivist later reviews whether it joins the public Record.
Drag a PDF or photograph onto the counter
— or —PDF or image · up to 40 pages · 60 MB
The Examiner reads this as a claim to check against the document — it never influences the transcription itself.
Ready in a minute or two. The transcript and searchable PDF are yours to keep — you can ask us to keep your document private or remove it at any time.
This usually takes a minute or two — you can leave this page open and watch each page come in.
Nothing was charged and nothing kept. The Record holds material that's roughly fifty years old or older and suitable for a public archive — if your document is older than it looks, or you think we've got this wrong, write to the Examiner with your docket number and a real person will take another look.
Your original pages with an invisible, searchable text layer — select, search and copy directly in any PDF reader.
Download searchable PDFBuild a file per ancestor — every record you lodge or find can be filed to a person. Open your research files →