Monday 18 August: Since last Thursday, my archive days have been spent immersed in ‘Pringle proper’, that is, the family collection that Sue has throughout been focused on. She has created a ‘dummy’, which is a huge set of File Maker records for which she has recorded all meta information for each document present and recorded. She has completed this for about two-thirds of the collection, then handed her file over to me and started a new one for the rest of Pringle. I’m now following in her footsteps, recording the detailed content information for the 1 in 5 ‘sample’ of documents that we are taking from all the large collections worked on, and also for the ‘extras’, that is, additional documents that I identify as important enough also to be included by having detailed information recorded about them too. Sue will finish the second smaller dummy with time enough (about a week, we think) for her to make detailed use of the Cory and Main Library books and journals to hunt relevant information on the Pringles, Hocklys, Bowkers, Stretches, Brownlees and so on. We hope to have all the basics in good shape before packing up at the Cory Library at 4.45pm on Friday 29 August, which includes my detailed notes and also jpegs taken for all ‘sample’ and ‘extra’ documents, which latter will facilitate further more detailed work on these after returning to the UK.

Last updated: 18 August 2014