Services Offered

Enquiries and research - Jersey Archive carries out brief enquiries by post, telephone or e-mail. Please note that for any extended research a charge may be incurred. We undertake to answer all initial enquiries within two weeks. Follow up research or photocopying enquiries may take longer to complete. If you have a query please e-mail us at archives@jerseyheritagetrust.org.

To order photocopies please print off our Copyright Declaration Form. Please ensure that the form includes your signature, full details of the documents you require copies of, and your postal address.

Copyright Declaration Form

Ordering photocopies will incur a minimum charge of £5 including postage and packaging. Once we have received your completed form we can let you know how much your copies will cost. Payment must be received before the copies are made.

Education - the Jersey Heritage Trust provides an education service which covers the resources of the Jersey Archive and Museum sites. There is also a Guide for Teachers and a Young Persons Guide leaflet available.

Services for Legal Firms - The Jersey Archive holds the Royal Court records. To order a case please see the copying request form.

Records Management - the Jersey Archive provides a professional records management service for the States of Jersey and advice for anyone requiring records management advice.

Conservation - Jersey Archive is the home of the Trust’s conservation department; both its archive and museum conservators are based there in the Conservation Workshop.

For conservation and preservation advice, please see the Conservation and Preservation leaflet. For advice on looking after your own documents and memorabilia please see our Document Care Leaflet.

Copying Services - the Jersey Archive is able to produce copies of the majority of our sources, please see our Reprographic Policy and Table of Fees

Refreshments - a refreshment area has been provided, where you can eat, drink, read your newspaper, or use your mobile telephone.

Exhibitions - Jersey Archive has two exhibition cases around the Island. At present they are at the Les Quennevais Branch Library and the Jersey Museum.

Consultation Sessions

Ask the Archivist
If would like to ask about documents you might have, collections that we already hold, or how to conduct research for family or house history, please come for a half hour consultation with an archivist. Last Friday in every month. Pre-booking essential.

Talks and Tours

The Jersey Archive is pleased to offer to organisations or groups a guided tour which includes the public areas and (behind-the-scenes) the strongrooms and conservation workshop during the day and in the evening. Groups of up to 25 people are preferable but larger numbers can usually be accommodated by arrangement.

Alternatively we are able to offer an archivist to come to your organisation or group to talk about our work - about archives, conservation, family or house history or other aspects of research using archives.