Hi Elaine I have just read that Julie's husband is willing to be secretary, but I would most certaintly be willing to help out with transcribing things. In actual fact I have almost finished the first part of the Penarth Street directories for the years 1902,3,5,6,10,16,18,20. I have transcribed all the related seamen people on there, I am sending a copy of this to Bob Saunders who has a wonderful web page about seamen in wales. Let me now if you want his WWW. I would be delighted to send you a copy for our web page and when I finish the rest ( other occupations) I will send them on also. I am sure that I can get my Father to copy me other street directories for the Cardiff area but at a later date. One of the other projects that I have started, (but this will take some time)is copy out the seamen discharge numbers from Pro BT 372 there are thousands, mainly I am working once again on the welsh seamen but I am keeping a record of all the numbers as I copy them from PRO. These records are under the discharge numbers and not under surnames so if you don,t know the number you have to search the whole of the 30,000 numbers that is why I thought I would index them under surnames as I am checking them out for my Grandfathers number. As to receiving a copy of the Como records, well this would be my dream come true, of course I will wait and if we manage to get them, I am sure that we could also get others at a later date as we go along. I have no touble with the Italian as I think I told you once I speak spanish and they are very similar. The only things is that if they are on Microfilm I will have to get hold of a machine, this is something that I am willing to do. Well enough for now Ruth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elaine Collins" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 10:04 PM Subject: Re: [Anglo-Italian] FHL records and copies > Hi Ruth, > > Behind the scenes here at the list, the plans are shaping up for our > Anglo-Italian Family History Society. We've got a chair, vice-chair, > treasurer, marketing coordinator, surname index coordinator, societies > liaison officer to serve until we are in a position to have proper elections > (we still need more hands, particularly a membership secretary, so if anyone > wants to step forward...). We're working on a constitution, then we can open > a bank account, then we can start recruiting members. Meanwhile material is > being compiled for the website, the first draft of which should be up within > the next week or so. We are also sounding out various institutions about > holding our yet-to-be-assembled research collection. So by our first > meeting on 4 May we should be a fully fledged society. If you can hold on > till then, maybe we can help you to obtain the films? You could be head of > our transcription projects... > > Elaine > Acting chair > > > > Hi everybody, > > For over a year I have been trying to get hold of a copy of the complete > > records for Como in Italy. I live on the island of Ibiza and there is no > > Family History Center anywhere near here. Thanks to a volunteer in Utah I have > > been able to get quiet a few Birth, death and marriage records for my family > > Desio. However I still have many things to check out. I wrote to the FHL to > > see if it was possible to buy a copy of the records so I could check them > > myself, the answer was that I needed to be a Genealogical Soc. to be able to > > obtain them. I am willing to copy out the full records for everyone that like > > myself can't get to a FHC but need ideas of how to get hold of a copy > > Ruth > > > > > > ==== ANGLO-ITALIAN Mailing List ==== > > Italian Research > > http://www.dreamwater.net/anglersrest/Italian.htm > > > > ============================== > > 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 > > > > > ==== ANGLO-ITALIAN Mailing List ==== > Italian Research > http://www.dreamwater.net/anglersrest/Italian.htm > > ============================== > 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 > >