Hi all, To refresh some of you guy's memory about the CD-Rom of the slave db that Gwen Midlo Hall has authored, I have included more information about it below. It is ready for prepublication orders from Amazon.com at the price of $45 + S&H. If you search the ISBN # on Amazon.com, it will come right up. Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1699-1860 : Information from Original Manuscript Sources by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (Editor) Software Cd-Rom edition (October 1999) Louisiana State Univ Pr; ISBN: 0807124826 This item will be published in October 1999. Good luck, Cherryl In a message dated 10/8/98 4:11:33 AM Central Daylight Time, GHall1929 writes: << Thanks for the copy of your email re slave data. My database CDROM will appear in early 1999 published by Louisiana State University Press. It will contain detailed information about just about every slave found in documents in Louisiana between 1723 and 1820: 90,330 records each describing an individual slave with about 120 fields (items of information about each slave). About 30,000 of these records give the birthplace. Among these, over 16,000 are born in Africa. Over 10,000 identify the African ethnicity of the slave. A separate emancipations database with information about 3,900 individual manumissions will be included. There will also be a number of census databases by myself and other scholars covering the colonial and ante-bellum period (through 1860). These are almost all Louisiana documents, but there are a few colonial censuses of Mobile and Pensacola as well. For more information, contact Louisiana State University Press. They should have a leaflet announcing the publication. We've managed to keep the price down to $45. Please forward to interested others. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall >>