I have read a lot of comments about 2-3 CD's but am unclear which one people are speaking on and exactly what information is included. Is it material not available on line? Is it historical narrative? Land records; what years? Residents; what years? If one does not have a lot of money to spend on buying several CD's it is helpful to know some details about each one. Skip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynne L Bliss" <myfamroots@comcast.net> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> >I have the CD. I bought from eBay a while back and haven't been through > everything yet ... but so far, it is a gem! > >

Thank You, Skip, all these questions were 'skipping' through my mind, but you put it succinctly. I, and I'm sure many others await the answers. Thank You Kindly, JMM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Skip Mills" <skip4m@earthlink.net> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 9:24 AM Subject: [NYWESTCH] CD discussions >I have read a lot of comments about 2-3 CD's but am unclear which one >people > are speaking on and exactly what information is included. > Is it material not available on line? Is it historical narrative? Land > records; what years? Residents; what years? > If one does not have a lot of money to spend on buying several CD's it is > helpful to know some details about each one. > Skip > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lynne L Bliss" <myfamroots@comcast.net> > To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> > > > >>I have the CD. I bought from eBay a while back and haven't been through >> everything yet ... but so far, it is a gem! >> >> > > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/697 - Release Date: 2/22/2007 > 11:55 AM > >

The CDs we have been discussing (and lots more!) have very DETAILED descriptions on the eBay site. The CDs are composed of collections of multiple texts and documents concentrating on a specific REGION, HISTORICAL EVENT, or SUBJECT area. Many contain 5, 10, even 20 separate publications - each individually worth many times the cost of the CD. Each CD is truly a reference BONANZA to the family historian, some with thousands of pages of research information - all complete copies of the originals. The age of most of these text make them inaccessible to the average researcher. Naturally their scarcity and fragility makes them very expensive to acquire, for historical societies, libraries and individuals. When they are acquired they are often kept under lock and key in an effort to preserve them. Unfortunately this also makes them unavailable for research. The CDs contain exact electronic copies of each text as described. They are produced by scanning the actual pages of the original text making them not only excellent resources but archival copies available for future generations. If you could find a hard copy of any of these books it would cost hundreds of dollars. On the otherhand, the average cost of a single CD, has been made very affordable in an effort to make this information obtainable to as many home researchers as possible. Lots of instructions, have been given on how to find these resources, including item numbers taking you directly to a particular item where you will find very extensive descriptions of the CDs, their contents, time frame, how many pages (sometimes over 1000) and some even have links to the ACTUAL contents and index pages of a specific book in PDF format. (Note: I said SOME) I think copyright infringments may occur if the eBay descriptions are fully transcribed here, and some of these descriptions. especially those with PDF contents and index links, contain PAGES of descriptive information. Why should this be repeated here if it is already very clearly outlined on th CD item's page on eBay? Cheers Marg Smith Mardi, NSW Australia Subject: [NYWESTCH] CD discussions >I have read a lot of comments about 2-3 CD's but am unclear which one >people > are speaking on and exactly what information is included. > Is it material not available on line? Is it historical narrative? Land > records; what years? Residents; what years? > If one does not have a lot of money to spend on buying several CD's it is > helpful to know some details about each one. > Skip > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lynne L Bliss" <myfamroots@comcast.net> > To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> > > > >>I have the CD. I bought from eBay a while back and haven't been through >> everything yet ... but so far, it is a gem! >> >> > > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >