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    1. [HEF] FREE CD BOOK - 1791 UNIVERSAL DIRECTORY OF BRITAIN
    2. Rod Neep
    3. FREE CD BOOK - 1791 UNIVERSAL DIRECTORY OF BRITAIN This important and incredibly useful 5 volume directory on CD (normal price GBP 29.74) will be included totally free with any CD order from every new buyer. This offer is *only* open to those *new* to the Archive CD Books Project who have never yet bought one of our CDs. We want to make the Archive CD Books Project grow, and this is one of the ways that we can do it. This offer is available for a very limited period! The Archive CD Books Project is a not for profit organisation which exists to make reproductions of old books, documents and maps available on CD to genealogists and historians, and to co-operate with libraries, museums and record offices in providing money to renovate old books in their collection, and to donate books to their collections, where they will be preserved for future generations. CDs of these old and rare books are from just GBP 8.50, and we now have over 800 different ones to choose from. Most are English county directories from the 1800s, but also include parish register transcripts, marriage licences, wills, history & topography, pedigrees and peerages, and general genealogy books. There is something for everybody researching their ancestors. The CDs contain very high quality scans of the original books, reproduced in PDF format for viewing using Adobe Acrobat Reader. (PC and Apple Mac compatible). 1791 UNIVERSAL DIRECTORY OF BRITAIN - FREE Five huge volumes comprising the earliest directory for Great Britain, and one which is probably the most important directory for genealogists and historians that we have released on CD. For towns and villages the descriptions of the places are excellent, with details of their facilities, etc., and includes those residents with trades such as farmers, hay-binders, labourers, bakers, shop keepers, etc. and their addresses. Although titled "Great Britain", this directory covers places in England and Wales. Volume 1 of the five is devoted to London, volumes 2 to 4 cover the places in the England and Wales in alphabetical order, and vol. 5 contains a number of the subsequent amendments/additions published in the next few years. For more details, and photos of the books, see http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/books/ref/se0018/ If you are a first-time buyer from the Archive CD Books Project, you do not need to click to buy this CD. It will come to you FREE when your order is packed. All you have to do is buy one (or more) CDs from the on-line catalogue at: http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/acatalog/sitemap.html where you will find the site map to all of the old and rare books on CD listed by category and county. THIS OFFER IS ONLY OPEN TO FIRST TIME BUYERS FROM THE ARCHIVE CD BOOKS PROJECT. There have been *lots* of offers of a free CDs to existing customers, and lots (even several current) special offers to existing customers. This very same CD book was also offered free to existing customers in a previous promotion. This new promotion is aimed solely at *new* customers, in order to make the Archive CD Books Project grow. Herefordshire books currently on CD include: Visitation of Herefordshire 1569 Memorials of Old Herefordshire The Beauties of Herefordshire (1805) The Gentleman's Magazine Library 1731-1868, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire & Huntingdonshire A Rent Roll - Presteigne 1705 Herefordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire 1822 Pigot's Directories Herefordshire 1830 Pigot's Directory Herefordshire 1835 Pigot's Directory Herefordshire 1842/4 Pigot's Directory Herefordshire 1858 Cassey's Directory Herefordshire 1873 Returns of Owners of Land Herefordshire 1895 Kelly's Directory Herefordshire 1909 Kelly's Directory Herefordshire 1934 Kelly's Directory (with map) Regards Rod Neep -- ARCHIVE CD BOOKS - A project to reproduce old books on CD for genealogists and pay for the restoration of books in Record Offices, Libraries, etc. Mailing list : CDBOOKS-L@rootsweb.com (for discussions) Weekly News : CDBOOKS-NEWS-L@rootsweb.com (weekly announcements & news) E-mail : enquiries@archivecdbooks.org Web : http://www.archivecdbooks.org

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