Seconded! Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heather Grimwood" <heather.grimwood@xtra.co.nz> To: <oxfordshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [OXF] Heritage Search (people search) thank you Wendy!...Heather --- On Sun, 19/6/11, Wendy Archer <wharcher@cvd.co.uk> wrote: From: Wendy Archer <wharcher@cvd.co.uk> Subject: [OXF] Heritage Search (people search) To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Date: Sunday, 19, June, 2011, 9:16 PM Researchers of people in Oxfordshire may find pointers to undiscovered treasures within Heritage Search. It's at www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/heritagesearch If I search for a name of interest, I get a results list showing what resources hold entries for the name in: Oxfordshire Historic Environment Record Oxfordshire Museums Service Oxfordshire Oral History Archive Oxfordshire Photographic Archive Oxfordshire Poor Law - Name Index Oxfordshire Record Office Oxfordshire Regiments - Collections Oxfordshire Regiments - Documents Oxfordshire Regiments - Service Record Index Oxfordshire Studies Business Index Oxfordshire Studies Catalogue Oxfordshire Studies People Index Pendon Museum Vale & Downland Museum There is then more detail from each resource. For instance, in the Oxfordshire Studies People Index a search for PULKER gave: 1 Robert Pulker Aged 46. Died - Mar 1855 - 56. Oxford Board of Guardians Reports, 1856. Reference OPI-54328 2 Samuel Pulker Apprentice to Thomas Johnson, wheelwright. Oxford Freemen Index 1663-1997, 25.2.1820. Reference OPI-60247 3 John William Pulker Apprentice to Henry Hall, printer. Oxford Freemen Index 1663-1997, 16.6.1865. Reference OPI-60246 4 John Pulker Aged 55?; labourer. Parish - Saint Thomas. In-door poor. Oxford Board of Guardians Reports, 1906. Reference OPI-52490 5 Bill Pulker Head, Oxonian Press, died aged 80. Obituary. Oxford Times, 5.5.1972. p.2. Reference OPI-32198 There are also entries in some of the other resources - for instance the Record Office has: Recognizance of George Thomas Pulker of Thame, baker, 20/Nov/1830 Defendants: George Robinson, Henry Bates, john Robinson, John Lewis & John Rush There is also an Advanced Search enabling words to be combined, or excluded from the search, etc. Wendy _____________________________________________ Oxfordshire Surname Interest list - www.oxsil.org.uk Have you entered your names of interest? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _____________________________________________ Oxfordshire Surname Interest list - www.oxsil.org.uk Have you entered your names of interest? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message