Alan I have just caught up with your E-Mail,first chance I have had to check them out for days. Would be glad to participate ?please allocate any section to me if required. Also 1891 details interesting . Wiil trawl through when I have time. Regards Bob K >-- Original Message -- >From: Jackari2@aol.com >Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:16:30 EDT >To: KNIBB-L@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: KNIBB-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [K/NIBB/S] Volunteers required! > > >www.1837on-line now have the overseas bmd indexes available for searching. > >A quick look reveals a large number of K/NIBB/S and time, if nothing else, > >makes me wonder if we could share the task of downloading amongst listers. > >There's a cost element also ie £5 for 50 units. Only if one pays the charge >can >the full record be seen. However, from what I can gauge on a search for >births >1761-2003, only one page per entry seems to be the norm, so every unit used > >should reveal a K/NIBB/S, unlike the normal indexes where two pages can >sometimes be needed to locate the correct individual - many more for common >surnames. > > >I suspect that my search for KNIBB brought up KNIBBS as well but experience > >would tell us if that is indeed the case. If it is then perhaps we can divide > >the task by one lister taking on £5 worth of the KNIBB births and another >£5 >worth of the NIBBS births and similarly split the marriages and deaths. >This >way, we might only need 6 volunteers in total but if £5 doesn't cover all >of a >particular batch, perhaps on a second trawl for volunteers someone else can > >complete that batch. > >Any takers? If so, please can you state which batch you would like to tackle > >ie KNIBB or NIBBS and births, marriages or deaths. Then just wait a while > >for me as co-ordinator to give the go-ahead - otherwise we could find ourselves > >duplicating efforts. > >bfn > >Alan > >Alan Jackson >Host at The K/NIBB/S One Name Study & Mailing List >Website address http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~knibbetc > >Did you know? Earlier postings to the list are archived at >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/KNIBB-L/ >Please follow log-on instructions when you first visit! > > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > __________________________________________________________________ Get Tiscali Broadband From £15:99 http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadbandhome/