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Personalise your searches on The National Archives website

20 August 2007

You can now benefit from a personalised search service on The National Archives website.

Register with us today to customise your search results, save your searches, add bookmarks to your favourite web pages and receive recommendations from our bookshop based on your search history.

Taking search a step further

For more than a year The National Archives' Global Search has enabled you to search across many of our most popular resources at once, including the Catalogue, DocumentsOnline and records research guides. The personalised search service takes search a step further by tailoring results around your interests. The search engine ´learns´ from your search history and uses this knowledge to refine your future searches.

Benefits of registration

You can sign in or register from any page on The National Archives website. Once signed in, you will be able to:

Access your own 'MyPage', where you can save and quickly access information relating to your research. 'MyPage' will also display your personal preferences and registration details, which you can edit at any time.

Receive customised search results

Save searches that you have created, and re-run them whenever you choose

View a history of your recently run searches

Bookmark your favourite pages in The National Archives website and across the web

Receive recommendations of potential interest to you based on your search history, such as books, research guides and web pages

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