Forgot to mention that 1. a name may be substituted in the search mode: I entered Salazar and received 284 references. Previous sender placed Sinaloa in search window.. 2. If placing the curser on the small window on the lower right hand side of screen.. that is the area where the scroll bar is located.. Right click --brings up menu.. click on Open in new window will open that area in full screen. for easier viewing and reading.. glory bee xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DRSW Master Index on web Documentary Relations of the Southwest (DRSW) in the Arizona State Museum at the University of Arizona has now placed its Master Bibliography and Index online. The Master Index is a finding aid for researchers using Spanish colonial documents concerning northern New Spain from the 1500s until the 1820s. It contains more than 17,000 records about what is now the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. In all, the Master Index summarizes an estimated 500,000 pages of colonial documents. Each record contains detailed information about a document or a group of related documents in archives around the world. The documents summarized come from a total of thirty-one archives in Europe and the Americas. Copies of most of these documents are available on microfilm in DRSW or elsewhere in Tucson. A link to the new, online searching is available from DRSW's webpage: http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/drsw Just enter a search term, such as, "Sinaloa", and you will see a list of all the records that contain that term (in this case, there will be 762 matches). Click on a title, and your screen will display the full record. You can select records to save, print, or email. We would appreciate your feedback about this new service - especially since we are still writing the "help" page. Also, please do not hesitate to ask for help. In the future we plan to make at least four more databases searchable simultaneously with the Master Index: 1) the Biofile, a collection of 19,000 biographical descriptions; Biodex and Biodex2, compilations of index entries from secondary sources; and the SMRC Books & Articles, an annotated bibliography with about 14,000 items. We would like to thank the University of Arizona Libraries for donating staff time and expertise in putting these databases online. In particular, Metadata Librarian Jeremy Frumkin has overseen this process. Happy hunting! Tracy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Tracy Duvall, Ph.D. Documentary Relations of the Southwest Arizona State Museum University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 duvallt@u.arizona.edu tel: (520)621-6280 fax: (520)621-2976