Requesting Research
The NFA is happy to help with your enquiries wherever
possible. We aim to provide as much information as possible on our website,
but we appreciate that there are some enquiries which need to be dealt
with through a more detailed consultation of the material within the collections.
For those members of the public unable to arrange a visit to the archive,
we are happy to answer enquiries through standard means such as letter,
phone call or email.
The NFA will not charge for dealing with 'quick' enquiries
that can be answered without recourse to detailed research or lengthy
consultation of the collections. Any documentation required in answering
an enquiry will be dealt with under the stated conditions for supplying
pictures and/or articles.
Any enquiry that necessitates a detailed and time-consuming
approach carried out by NFA staff on behalf of the client will be
charged at the standard research rate of £30 per half hour
(or part of) plus VAT. In these situations the enquiry will be discussed
by NFA staff who will estimate a projected time to deal with the
enquiry. This projected time will then be communicated back to the
client who can then make a decision on whether to go ahead and have
the NFA staff tackle the enquiry, to arrange a visit in their own
time to tackle the enquiry themselves, or to abandon the enquiry.
If the client agrees for the NFA staff to carry out the enquiry
then the results and material associated with the enquiry will not
be released until payment is received.
The World's Fair
Consultation of the World's Fair collection by the NFA
staff on behalf of the client is a key area of our work. NFA staff will
not charge for locating specific single requests from extracts of the
World's Fair if the client can provide a ONE MONTH date spread for their
enquiry - eg locating a fair report, a social announcement, etc. The NFA
will charge for requests that involve either a sequence of single specific
dates (for example, all the reports of Nottingham Goose Fair for the 1950s)
or involve a date spread greater than one month (for example, to locate
a death announcement for a particular year). In addition, if the free
research undertaken by NFA staff yields no results, then the NFA will
charge the client for any subsequent research even if it still conforms
to the one month date spread (for example, a search for an event in February
followed by a separate request to search for it in March).
Family History
The NFA will endeavour to help family historians
wherever possible. Staff are able to carry out reference searches
to any indexed material (for example King Pole magazine or John
Turner's circus biographies) or to the name-indexed photographic
database, and will not charge for this service. However, searches
for multiple names will be charged at the standard research rate
of £30 per half hour (or part of) plus VAT.
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