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From: "Alice" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Index for Snell's book on Hunterdon, etc.
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 07:38:08 -0500
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Could you tell me if the name Rightmire is listed in the index...Thanks

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From: "Les Moore" <>
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Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 7:19 PM
Subject: RE: [NJHUNTER] Index for Snell's book on Hunterdon, etc.


> There is an every-name index for Snell's book and it is available
online,
> if you or your library or school subscribes to HeritageQuest. The
> HeritageQuest copy seems to have been photocopied from a typescript
> belonging to the New Jersey Historical Society. To view it, go to
> HeritageQuest and click on "Search Books," and then on "Search
> Publications," and then either browse for "[Index to Snell's" being sure
to
> include the bracket in front of "Index," or go to advanced search and
put
> in "Snell" for author and "Hunterdon" for title keyword. Once you get
to
> the document, you will find that the pages are numbered oddly. Somerset
> County is indexed on pages 1 to 81, but Hunterdon County is indexed on
> pages a1 to a174. There is no word-find capability in this file, so you
> have to estimate what page your family's name might show up on and then
> work back or forth from there.
> Our library has a paper copy that we made off the HeritageQuest and I
will
> be willing to do lookups for people for whom the online version is not
> available. Oddly enough, HeritageQuest does not have the full text of
> Snell's history available, even though they have the index for it.
>
> Leslie Moore
> Reference Librarian
> Hunterdon County Library
>
>
> At 10:23 PM 5/25/05 -0500, you wrote:
>>I believe there is an index available, although I'm not sure I would
know
>>where to buy one. Perhaps one of our listers would know. I can recall
>>seeing it at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
>>Louis Williams
>>
>
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