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Archive CD Books News : January 28 2004
In this news:
* Latest CD Releases
* Special Offers
* Do you get the gift of a free CD by helping others?
* Cornwall Lookup Month
* New useful pages at British-Genealogy.com
* Other news snippets
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LATEST CD RELEASES
For more details of those listed below, with photographs, see:
http://www.archivecdbooks.ie/books/new/index.htm
That is the easiest way to view the list of latest releases, with links
from each of them to see photos and more details.
Now 1,315 different CDs available!
Something for everyone's research.
** Kelly's 1939 Directory of Cornwall
There are detailed descriptions of each town and village along with
their facilities, private residents and tradespeople. Everyone's
included from Magistrates to Vinegar Makers
see Cornwall directories page
** The History & Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham -
Hutchinson 1785 (3 Vols)
A most important work on the County of Durham, which is referred to by
most modern historians and writers.
see Durham history & topography page
** The History & Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham - Fordyce
1857 (2 Vols)
A comprehensive history and geography of the County of Durham in two
huge volumes, and containing many delightful old engravings.
see Durham history & topography page
** Kelly's 1925 & 1929 Directories of Cumberland and Westmorland
Compendium Set
Each individual CD costs 11.50 so this set represents a huge saving,
being less than half of the cost the four single CD's
see Cumberland directories page
** 1925 Kelly's Directory of Cumberland
see Cumberland directories page
** 1929 Kelly's Directory of Cumberland
see Cumberland directories page
** 1925 Kelly's Directory of Westmoreland
see Westmoreland directories page
** 1929 Kelly's Directory of Westmoreland
see Westmoreland directories page
** Buchan's Complete Domestic Medicine 1849
The book is a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by simple
medicines. It examines the general causes of diseases and their links
with children, clothing, food, exercise, unwholesome air, intemperance,
anger, fear, grief and religious melancholy
see All England Lifestyle page
** Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser 1848-1862 Set
Facsimile copies of the original newspapers.
North Lancashire and Cumberland coverage.
Individual CD's, each containing three years' worth of issues are
detailed below. This complete set represents a huge saving on the cost
of all the single CD's together.
see Newspapers page
Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser 1848-1850
Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser 1851-1853
Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser 1854-1856
Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser 1857-1859
Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser 1860-1862
** The Medical Directory 1898
This excellent book of over 2,000 pages lists all of the doctors,
surgeons, dentists, etc., together with short biographical details of
each.
Includes:
The London Medical Directory
The Provincial Medical Directory
The Medical Directory for Wales
The Medical Directory for Ireland
Together with:
The Medical Directory of Registered Practitioners resident abroad;
The Medical Directory of the Naval, Military and Indian Services;
Licentiates in Dental Surgery; also statistical and general information
of the universities, colleges, schools, hospitals, dispensaries, lunatic
asylums, societies, sanitary medical service, public services, etc. in
the United Kingdom.
see Books for all Britain page
** Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1916
A typically useful Kelly's directory. It contains street-by-street and
even house-by-house lists with the names of the householders in the City
of Nottingham as well as the usual lists of trades people.
see Nottinghamshire directories page
** North Nottinghamshire Original Register of Voters for the Year 1885
Includes the persons full name, residential address and the reason they
qualify to vote i.e. freehold land, freehold factory etc.
see Nottinghamshire directories page
** Mansfield 100 Years Ago
This book follows the steps of the Improvement Commission from 1823 to
1932 when the book was published. The commission made radical changes to
the town that completely altered the residents' lives.
see Nottinghamshire history & topography
** Warner's History of Bath - 1801
A great book to get an insight into how historical events and
circumstances affected the lives of your Bath ancestors.
see Somerset history & topography page
** Bath Guide - Circa 1820
The guide includes interesting little details such as the cost of
visiting the baths, conditions of admission to hospital (if you had an
ulcer or fever you were in trouble), it lists stage and water coaches
times and destinations, it even has the times the post arrived. This
guide will give you an excellent idea of what your ancestor's lives were
like.
see Somerset history & topography page
** Hanes Eglwysi Annibynol Cymru (A History of the Independent Churches
in Wales)
"Still the best of our 'standard' Welsh denominational histories"
WRITTEN ENTIRELY IN WELSH WITH NO ENGLISH TRANSLATION.
see All Wales page
** Muthill Register of Baptisms 1697 - 1847, published 1887. Edited by
Rev A. W. Cornelius Hallen.
The Muthill parish register of Baptisms gives details of all baptisms
between 1697 and 1847, with an index to save you lots of time. The
details given include, date baptised, parents names, place of birth and
date born. It is important to note that not only is the Father's name
given but also the Maiden name of the Mother. This book can provide you
with lots of leads.
Example: Jan 9 1709 Jean daughter to David Marshall and Isobel Lauson at
Innerpafray born Jan 8.
see Perthshire page
** Corfe Castle
The story of Corfe Castle (Dorset) and of many who lived there.
Published in 1853.
Collected from ancient chronicles, records, and private memoirs of a
family resident in the castle during the Civil War.
see Dorset history & topography page
** Kelly's 1939 Directory of Kent (with map)
A typically comprehensive Kelly's directory, containing hundreds of
names and addresses to help break through the walls in your research.
see Kent Directories page
** Mediaeval Towns of London. The Story of London by Henry B Wheatly,
1909
This book is not intended as a history but as, to some extent, a guide
to the manners of the people and to the appearance of the city during
the Mediaeval period
see London history & topography page
** The Vestry Minute Book of the Parish of Stratford-on-Avon 1617-1699
This book contains the minutes of meetings of the parish and its
affairs. Superb!
see Warwickshire history & topography page
** Tyne Folk. Masks, Faces and Shadows. 1896
A great insight into the lives and characters of the Tyne before 1896.
Parker describes the churches, homes and habits of these Tyne folk in a
lively and engaging way.
see Northumberland history & topography
** A Guide to the English Tongue - 1791 Dyche
A wonderful insight into the use of the English language in the 1700s.
see Lifestyle page
** Rental Book of The Cistercian Abbey of Cupar - Angus (Volume 2) Rev.
Charles Rogers 1880
In these pages we learn how the Pre-Reformation clergy administered
their estates, and otherwise conducted their affairs
see Scotland history page
** Signatures of West Bromwich People in 1941 for H.M.S. Galatea.
Is your signature in this book? Or perhaps those of your parents and
grand parents? Or those of your classmates?
see Staffordshire history & topography page
** Leicestershire 1861 Census Registration Districts
Just completed and shipping has started now for those who placed advance
orders.
For more details of those listed above, with photographs, see:
http://www.archivecdbooks.ie/books/new/index.htm
That is the easiest way to view the list of latest releases, with links
from each of them to see photos and more details.
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CURRENT SPECIAL OFFERS
*1* Staffordshire Pigot's Directories Compendium - Just £15.00
ALL of the Staffordshire Pigot's Directories ever published (1822,
1828,1835, 1842), released as a special compendium set for just £15.00
(CDs available separately at £11.50 each). AND - we have remastered
these specially for the compendium set to be searchable using Acrobat
Reader's "find" tool.
Offer ends 31 January 2004
See Staffordshire Directories page to order now - Don't miss out on this
super offer!
*2* Cornwall 2 for 1 Special Offer.
Offer ends January 31st.
Order any two Cornwall CDs from the on line shopping cart , and get the
cheapest one free.
The shopping cart shows the full normal price, but as we process the
orders manually, then you will only be charged for one CD.
*3* With your first order for any CD, you will automatically receive the
superb 1791 Universal Directory of Britain CD as a FREE GIFT. Normal
price £34.94. Five huge volumes covering London and the main towns and
villages in England and Wales. It is a fabulous resource for family
historians, with hundreds of thousands of names and addresses. (You
don't need to add it to the shopping cart. We will add it to your order
at the time of order processing).
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Do you get the gift of a FREE CD by helping others?
In the last newsletter we gave some free CDs away.... and here are more.
It looks as though I might make this a simi-regular feature.
I notice that lots of people are helping others by answering queries and
pleas to overcome brick walls in their research.... by using the
valuable information from the Archive CD Books. Not just looking for
ancestors, but answering questions on all sorts of other topics about
the villages and places where our ancestors lived.
Wonderful stuff! This is what the family history mailing lists are all
about. Helping others when they have a problem or a query. And of
course, if you have the right books to hand, then they can be very
useful. But that sort of thing does take up some of your time.
I reckon that should be rewarded. Therefore I have taken just a few at
random that I have seen over the last couple of weeks....
and the following 15 people can write to us at
enquiries@archivecdbooks.org
and claim a free CD of your choice. Any CD currently in production, up
to GBP 25.00 in value. For the full listings of over 1,300 CDs see
http://www.archivecdbooks.ie/acatalog/sitemap.html
Blanche Charles <blanchec@paradise.net.nz>
Stephen <stephen.steere@ntlworld.com>
Sarah Lowther <sarah@dlowther.demon.co.uk>
Richard C. Browning, Jr. <brownrc@anet-dfw.com>
Colleen <colleen.morrison@ntlworld.com>
Jean Baker <roamers@btinternet.com>
Pat <patmar@cogeco.ca>
Roy Harvey <roycon@ceinternet.com.au>
Denny Lowe <heldenlowe@telus.net>
Jules <JWhitehouseja@aol.com>
Pav Tokarski <pav.tokarski@ntlworld.com>
Pam Downes <pam.downes@dsl.pipex.com>
Phil Warn <philwarn@ntlworld.com>
Neville Randall <neville385@ozemail.com.au>
Steve Stutcinskas <Steve@Stutcinskas.freeserve.co.uk>
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CORNWALL RESOURCES LOOKUP MONTH
We did it with tremendous success for Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire
recently.... and for the last month it has been Cornwall's turn. With
immense success!!! 1,600 messages posted during the month! Lots of brick
walls broken down ;-)
A "free for all" on-list lookup thing using all of the Archive CD Books
Cornwall CDs. There are quite a lot of them! Many of you already have
these CDs, and this is the opportunity for:
a. folks to ask for lookups and information from the CD books
b. you to help others from the Archive CD Books CDs that you may own.
The complete list of CD books for Cornwall, and details of the "Lookup
Month" can be seen at the web page at:
http://www.british-genealogy.com/lists/cornwall-month.html
So.... start asking for lookups in any of these...
REPLIES *ON THE MAILING LIST* ARE GOOD!
It lets people see the sort of things that can be found in these
books... and will prompt them to ask their own questions. Replies on
list also lets others know that the answers have been found, which saves
duplicating work!
If you have any of these CDs from Archive CD Books, then *DO* help
others by doing the lookups and finding information for them.
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To coincide with the lookup month there is a special offer for Cornwall
listers who purchase Archive CD Books Cornwall CDs - for ONE MONTH ONLY
** Order any *two* CDs from the *CORNWALL* section of the Archive CD
Books catalogue.... and be charged for just one!
Or order 4, and be charged for 2.
THIS CD OFFER ENDS 9.00am (British Time) 31 January 2004
(The order form will list the full price of two, but as credit cards are
processed manually, you will get the cheapest one of the two free). (The
1861 and 1841 census CDs sets - available now - are included in this
offer, but *not* the other censuses, which are subject to advance orders
being placed)
The full catalogue of CDs can be seen at:
http://www.archivecdbooks.ie/acatalog/sitemap.html
Just scroll down to the Cornwall section.
And finally.... do pass on this message to other relevant mailing lists
and to your friends who have Cornish ancestors. The more people who join
in, the better! And we are sure to break down those brick walls in our
research, and add useful background information on the places our
ancestors lived.
The Cornwall Lookup Month takes place on the Cornwall mailing list at
British-Genealogy.com
To subscribe to the mailing list (you must be a list member to post and
receive messages), see:
http://www.british-genealogy.com/mailman/listinfo/eng-cornwall
More details of the Lookup Month can be seen on the web page at:
http://www.british-genealogy.com/lists/cornwall-month.html
The Cornwall lookup month finishes 31 January 2004. So there is still
time to get in there.
Next month.... two counties. (Staffordshire and Cumberland). Watch this
space!
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NEW WEB PAGES AT BRITISH-GENEALOGY.COM
There are some new pages at the British-Genealogy.com site that will
certainly be of interest to you. In particular, the section on
"Resources" that describes the various British resources available to
family historians.
http://www.british-genealogy.com/resources/
Lots about county directories at:
http://www.british-genealogy.com/resources/books/directories/
including a set of new pages that list all directories published for
various counties.
How to trace the elusive clergymen
http://www.british-genealogy.com/resources/books/clergy/
Poll Books - old voters lists!
http://www.british-genealogy.com/resources/info/pollbooks.html
British Censuses and how they were carried out
http://www.british-genealogy.com/resources/census/
Milestone Dates in English Genealogy
http://www.british-genealogy.com/resources/info/sdates.html
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OTHER NEWS SNIPPETS
We have upgraded our on-line catalogue and shopping cart software.
Things look a little different, and a few odd things have been ironed
out. In particular, the incompatibility with some firewalls has been
sorted once and for all. The changes don't look that drastic, but it
involved several hundreds of pounds cost, and a huge amount of time.
<Phew!> and it worked.
Archive CD Books Canada is right on the very verge of going live with
its own web site and on-line catalogue. That will be a tremendous
advantage to those living in Canada, who have been hit in the past with
silly import duties from the UK on our CDs.
We are now at the stage of looking more closely into setting up Archive
CD Books New Zealand. I hope to make a trip over there sometime during
late February or March, and of course to call in on Archive CD Books
Australia in the same trip. I would also be interested in hearing from
anyone in Ireland and South Africa who would be interested in co-
operating in setting up Archive CD Books projects there too.
There are several reviews and articles about us in this month's British
family history magazines. All nicely positive stuff that spreads the
word about the Archive CD Books Project.
General email :
enquiries@archivecdbooks.org
Phone: 01594 829870 (from outside the UK +44 1594 829870)
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