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From: Brian Randell <>
Subject: Devon Book Indexing project - update 30 Jul 1999
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:08:22 +0100


Hi:

Here is a further update on what, to avoid confusion with the project that
Andrew Lutley has now started to transcribe and index Pigot's 1830
Directory for Devonshire, I've renamed the Devon Book indexing Project.

I'm pleased to be able to announce that another index has been completed
and installed, bringing the total to 21:

"Bere Ferrers with Bere Alston Monthly (Parish) Magazine, Vol XII No.133,
January 1927" - indexed by Sue Nash

and a further 16 are in the pipeline.

Full details of the Devon Book Indexing Project can be found at:

http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/DEV/indexingproject.html

Links at the top and bottom of this page will take you to a full list of
books currently being indexed, together with links to the already completed
indexes, though these are of course also linked to from the appropriate
places in the relevant GENUKI/Devon pages.

Note that the Devon Search facility searches all the GENUKI/Devon pages
including all these indexes - though it can take a week for newly added
pages to be incorporated into the search facility, since it is updated
automatically just at weekends.

The GENUKI/Devon parish pages list a very large number of published parish
histories and other books - some still in print, many available via a good
reference library. I would expect that many of DEVON-L's approximately one
thousand subscribers have identified one or mare particular parishes as the
source of a number of their ancestors - and are, I would hope, trying to
learn all they can about the environment in which they lived, via such
books. (Just finding the names and dates of one's ancestors is, after all a
rather arid exercise.)

Needless to say, I will be pleased to hear from further volunteers who are
willing to make a lasting contribution to Devon genealogy by preparing an
index to one or more of the books, whether or not already listed in
GENUKI/Devon, that they have found to be of value in their own researches.

Meanwhile, my thanks to those who have completed, and/or who are still
labouring on, book indexes for GENUKI/Devon.

Cheers

Brian Randell

Dept. of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 7RU, UK
EMAIL = PHONE = +44 191 222 7923
FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randel

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