NRS-22510 | Personal History Cards [Persy Project]

These are personal history cards for all current employees who were employed by State Rail during the time of the Persy Project (1984-1989), though the contents date range is from 1946. Persy is an acronym for Personnel System, with the project placed in the Employee Relations Branch. The project involved the bringing together of all the separate, branch personal history cards to enable basic information from the cards to be entered onto the new computer database (Persy).As part of the project history cards were microfilmed. These microfilms and a duplicate set are held as NRS-22494 Microfiche of Personal History Cards, 01/01/1990-31/12/1990 (formerly R290). Custody History From 1955 until 2000 the State Rail Authority of New South Wales maintained an 'in house archives' consisting of the archival records of the Authority, its predecessor agencies and the private railway companies taken over by the government. The date ranges of the records were from 1849 until 2000. When the decision was made to close the 'State Rail Archives' the parts of the collection that were required as State archives were transferred to the State Records Authority of NSW. Those record series were incorporated into the State Records series system of archives control and were re-numbered. This series was formerly part of the State Rail Archives collection where it was identified as series R360. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R360 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.