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Video Report: National Library of Wales £1m War Records Project

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Video report from the BBC includes a look at the scanning process.

Uncovering the hidden history behind an event like World War I usually means trawling through thousands of records at a library.

But a £1m project underway in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, will make all that available at the click of a mouse.

The National Library of Wales is busy digitising records into an online collection.

Watch the Video
Runs 2 minutes.

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