In message <3.0.1.32.20050305122041.00924ae0@POP3.demon.co.uk>, Geoffrey <lists@sog.org.uk> writes > >As part of a co-operative project between The Archive CD Books Project >and The Society of Genealogists we have recently completed the first >phase of digitising all of the Phillimore's Marriages books in the SoG >Library. > >One of the first county sets to be produced is for Gloucestershire. Geoffrey, and fellow members, Several more have now been completed, and are now available on CD, and we are giving them really high priority to get the remainder scanned and completed very quickly indeed. The full list of them, now 11 counties available, can be seen on the project page at: http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/books/registers/index.htm where there are also some examples of what you can expect to find in the books. Rob Dewsall returned the first batch of 75 books to the SoG Library today, and collected the second batch, which will be scanned immediately, and made available within the next week or so. This next batch includes Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent. (That will leave Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire to complete the third and final batch, later this month or early April). Needless to say, we are all very excited about the co-operation between Archive CD Books and the Society of Genealogists to make these extremely useful (and incredibly rare) sets of volumes available on CD. Best regards Rod -- Rod Neep Archive CD Books