For anyone interested in looking up names using the search engine for B & N Salem Witchcraft Papers <http://[email protected]/selam/witchcraft/texts> click on the link titled Search the Verbatim Transcripts. This will open the search engine page. Enter the last name in the "search for word or phrase" window, and enter one space (using the space bar) after the last letter of the name. This will separate the name as a descrete word for the search engine to find. At the bottom of this search engine page, you'll find a link to "compound search" where you can enter the fist name in the first window and the second sname in the second window. Right now, the search engine cannot find all the varient spellings, but will search only for the precise spellings that you enter. The searching for varient spellings using a sigle standard spelling is function that will be developed a little later one. We're also going to activate the search of documents by date function in the next few weeks. Another way of searching for names in the Boyer and Nissembaum SWP is to go to the like titled "Name index for the print edition." We'll be making this into a functional name/document finding device in a few weeks. Right now it just lists the standardized spellings of names that B & N used for their index and gives you the page number. The fact is that there are more names in the body of the documents than listed in this index, as I recently discovered. Best to all, Benjamin Ray >My husband has an old family tree that lists Rachel (Varney) (Cook) (Langton) >Vinson(c1633-1707) daughter of William Varney(1608-1654) and Bridget Knight >(1611-1672) as a Salem Witch. Does anyone have any information on this? > Susan > >-- >Susan C. Johanson >Springfield, VA >[email protected] >Rootsweb sponsor >NEHGS member >http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/j/o/h/Susan-C-Johanson/ >....I prefer digging in the past to digging in the yard.... . . . . . . . . . . Benjamin Caleb Ray Tel: 804-924-6720 The Daniels Family FAX: 804-924-1467 NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor Department of Religious Studies Cocke Hall, University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22903