Expert digitisation consultants
Inhouse collection & delivery service
Accredited digitisation studio team
Highly accurate results
Instantaneous digital content searches
Capture data from any material type
Showcase your collections online
Improve access & discoverability 
Fully immersive virtual experiences
Birmingham City Council – Burial & cremation records – when the physical gets too physical (Phase 1)
Digitisation & transcription of volumes upon volumes of valuable and irreplaceable burial records.
A tailored cemetery solution for bereavement services
Save time, reduce costs and improve access to your registers, maps & recordsTWA offers a cemetery solution specifically constructed for bereavement services. This five phase process is designed to lead organisations through the distinct stages of digitisation, transcription, offline access, online management and access, right through to public access, and is perfect for crematorium and cemetery based records and registers. From retrieving grave, burial, cremation or map entries, to protecting physical items from damage or loss, the five phase process is on hand to support the bereavement sector every step of the way.
Learn more about our cemetery solution
Safeguard records
Counter deterioration, damage and loss with robust digital duplicates
Protect assets
Maintain reputation and integrity stylistically and guard against infringements
Reduce costs
Save on operational costs relating to the management of physical archives
Service continuity
Maintain obligations and look-up services in the absence of records and registers
Digitisation
Digitise your bereavement records
Balancing the access and research of cemetery archives against the vulnerable nature of physical heritage items is a real dilemma for cemetery collection holders. Creating digital replicas of physical archive material overcomes barriers, creating opportunities for simple offline searches, online management and even revenue generation, removing associated handling risks.
Cemetery Solution: Digitisation (Phase 1)
Data Capture
Harness valuable, searchable content
For full control of your cemetery archive it is important to capture the data contained within it. We offer a range of services, either at the point of, or post, digitisation. Our specialist technicians are ready to advise as you take that important step from physical cemetery archive to digital cemetery archive, gathering the important data that will later drive your online and offline archive search.
Cemetery Solution: Transcription (Phase 2)
Publishing
Manage and showcase your collections
Increasingly, holders of cemetery archives are looking to find new and innovative ways to manage their collections and share them online. Digitised registers and records are vital in supporting genealogy research while protecting the incredible original, and often handwritten, historical records. Partnering with Chronicle opens up phenomenal opportunities for the management, access, and discovery of your cemetery archives.
I’m here to help!
Talking to people about their specific material and short and long term archive goals is what we do. You really can’t beat speaking to a human, so do get in touch for an informal chat with Josh about the digitisation and publishing or your bereavement records.
Book a meetingHear more from organisations we work with
The feedback from our cemeteries staff using PastView Chronicle has been absolutely fantastic. They now don’t know how they managed without it and wish that we’d have undertaken the project sooner!
...We have received a huge amount of positive feedback from members of the public using the system, a number of whom have been trying to trace family members for many years with no success and have been able to trace these records within a few minutes using the new system.
I really can’t express more appreciatively how impressed we are, not only with the system and the Birmingham Burials website, but also the efficiency and professionalism of everyone that we have come into contact with at TWA.
Bev Nash
Birmingham City Council, Bereavement Services
Recent news & customer stories from bereavement services
Birmingham City Council – Publishing digital records and revenue generation (Phase 2)
Townsweb Archiving were consulted by Birmingham City Council because, like many authorities, they were.