Statistics released: Citizens are mostly researching their "roots" in state archives
386 thousand people who visited the online document scanning system of the Presidency's Directorate of State Archives examined 5 million 626 thousand documents. Researchers mostly searched for their "roots" in the state's memory.
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The Presidency's Directorate of State Archives is conducting work in Ankara and Istanbul to transfer the historical memory of institutions to a digital environment and make it available to researchers.
According to information obtained from the directorate's officials, 75 million 875 thousand 671 documents have been transferred to a digital environment since 2005 as part of these efforts. By digitizing the documents, both wider access is provided to researchers and historical documents are preserved for future generations.
Researchers can view and request the digitized documents through the document scanning system, which was launched in 2013.
18 MILLION 467 THOUSAND SEARCHES CONDUCTED
To date, a total of 3 million 720 thousand 63 researchers have performed 18 million 467 thousand 430 searches. While the total number of images examined in the system reached 41 million 225 thousand 164, researchers also purchased 3 million 380 thousand 317 documents during this process.
Between January 1 and July 31, 2024, 386 thousand 34 researchers logged into the system and searched for 1 million 594 thousand 972 documents. Researchers examined 5 million 626 thousand 81 images in the system and obtained 335 thousand 355 documents.
STUDENTS USED THE SYSTEM THE MOST
In the first half of the year, the most frequent users of the system were students at 39.8 percent. This was followed by public officials at 14.5 percent, faculty members and lecturers at 9.9 percent, and self-employed individuals at 9.1 percent.
Among the funds most in demand by researchers, funds such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mixed Exchange Commission Liquidation Claims and the Prime Ministry Department of Decisions stood out.
IMMIGRANT DISPATCH PAPERS
Researchers showed particular interest in documents regarding the settlement processes of Turks arriving from Romania and Bulgaria.
In this context, immigrant dispatch papers showing where immigrants from Romania were dispatched and settled, the names of migrants who arrived from Bulgaria between 1935-1937 and were settled in villages belonging to Çorlu, Muğla, Aksaray, and Lüleburgaz, tables showing the amount of land granted, and register records belonging to various provinces were among the most viewed documents.