A little about us and what we are trying to achieve.

NAOMI is an organisation which is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and based at the University of Bedfordshire in Bedford. We are trying to achieve two outcomes from our work. One is to make available to you and to all family historians world-wide an easily accessible archive of memorial inscriptions. These are at present under-used, partly because they are difficult to locate, but they are a valuable resource. They are also vulnerable to the erosion of inscriptions due to weathering and to the damage or loss of the stones themselves. Either way, we are in danger of losing the information they contain.

So the second purpose of NAOMI is to encourage people to go out and record what is still untranscribed, and so save the information from the past for the generations of the future. This we do by paying a proportion of the income generated by this site to the groups who have taken the time and made the effort to rescue the information in the first place, and so encourage them to get out and continue their good work. Click here if you are interested in learning more about this, or about helping us in particular and family history in general by joining them. The best way to do this is to join your local Family History Society, if you are not already a member.

Click here to visit the main Federation of Family History Societies' web site to find out how to locate them and what they do.