Maybe I can get my military brother to make a trip there. He came to Virginia for me and got some valuable records I couldn't get elsewhere. I'm trying to get him to catch the bug, and I heard him "coughing" this last weekend. He was excited about finding this & that in the state library at Norfolk. I'm surprised the LDS hasn't accessed, and at least indexed, the PRO records at Kew. Maybe some day.... thanks Nancy, Mark Nancy wrote: > > This is in response to Mark's questions. Poor Mark is just going to have to > make a nice trip and make us envious! > > Nancy > The Public Record Office (PRO - website > http://www.pro.gov.uk/ ) is what it says - the holder > of the public records (there are, according to their > website some 8 million of those records held > there!!!). Kew is in SW London. > > To show more details about your queries - go to > http://catalogue.pro.gov.uk/ and type in the headings > you give: Licences to travel . etc; and Kings > Remembrancer. The first one will show that there are > 33 volumes; the second that there are four different > headings. It is impossible to see if they are indexed: > many such things are not, meaning that exact details > and dates must be given before research can begin. > > It needs a personal visit there to see exactly what is > entailed in doing research on the documents - the PRO > do not undertake research on such a vast holding. Do > you have a particular reason - a person, say? It would > be a mammoth task to just browse through 33 volumes!!! > It is highly unlikely that the records would have been > filmed by the LDS (Mormons). > > Peter Shearan > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237