Carolyn, I got an email from you a little while back giving me the following: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/special/ and http://www.rootsweb.com/ussearch.htm Have I copied these accurately? I can find the first but cannot find the second. What have I done wrong? I will keep trying, but I must have copied something incorrectly. When you have a bit of time to spare, please check my efforts for accuracy. Thanks, William Woodson ----- Original Message ----- From: Carolyn McDaniel <cmacdee@centurytel.net> To: <AMXROADS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 4:18 AM Subject: Re: [AMXROADS] Draper's Papers and Doomsday Book > Hi Barb and all; > I should be more specific in referring to these things! I'm glad > you asked. The Domesday (but pronounced Doomsday) Book was William the > Conqueror's great assessment of England, which he has just wrested from the > natives! The Conquest was in 1066, and the Domesday assessment begun and > formally compiled about 20 years later. The Domesday can serve as a tax > record, a census, an inventory, and the earliest broad historical record of > "the English." It goes from county to county, village to village, farm to > farm. It is wonderful, and gives a picture of our (those of us with British > history) earliest selves. There is a abbreviated, searchable transcript > online: > http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/ > The Draper Manuscripts are a massive collection of interviews, > copied documents, letters, diaries, etc. pertaining to persons and events > concerning the expanding frontier. There are 491 notebooks, which have been > microfilmed on 123 reels. They are available on interlibrary loan. Draper > was especially interested in Daniel Boone and many of his contempories, so > there is much of interest to persons interested in Kentucky beginnings. > Draper lived in the mid to late 1800's but his collections especially > pertain to the Colonial and Revolutionary eras. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/special/draper/ > The Draper Homepage has some interviews and an index to the microfilm. > http://www.webpub.com/~jhagee/draper.html > > With love and best New Year Wishes Barb, > Your Cousin, Carolyn > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >