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!
COUNT ME IN...... ----- Original Message ----- From: Jackari2@aol.com To: KNIBB-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 6:16 PM 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