At 17:51 24-11-05, Carmel M Reynen wrote: >Ada >I was not trying to be critical of those who volunteer their >services to help us. <snip> And, Carmel, I did not read it as such, but I thought it a good opportunity to fill everyone in on the original, and now the subsequent, work on the inquest index, possibly not known by other listers. <snip> < I for one am very grateful to anyone who takes on a project of whatever proportions to make life a bit easier. When I started < to trace my family some 30 years ago we did not even have microfiche, no indexes just guess work on approx death dates < and pay a fortune for a search for the certificate or trudging through newspapers and graveyards. >So much work has been done since and I don't think many realise how >easy we have it now. <snip> I went through the same situation. It made me a determined volunteer indexer. >>INQUESTS: >> >> the lass who did the original combined departmental inquest index >> which has been available on microfiche. >> >>Last year she was doing for the inquest files what I had been doing >>for ten years with the 12,000 Equity case files. >> >>I sat next to her on many occasions, and she was working through >>the mis-transcribed names, the files ommitted from the original >>departmental indexes, the "cause of death" ommitted from the >>original indexes, etc. >> >>I believe, when she has finished (a BIG job) the index will be >>re-issued and brought up to date. An enquiry to MacBeth's >>Genealogical publishers might be able to suggest a date for this, >>though Marge had been working on it once a week for a full day in >>2004, I have not been at my usual place at the VPRO in 2005, and my >>own work has been "on hold". Hence I have lost touch with progress. regards, Ada Ackerly, Melbourne, Australia formerly Ackerly DocuSearch -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.7/180 - Release Date: 23-11-05