Hi: A colleague, Richard Grylls and I, lead the Devon Wills Project, a co-operation involving the Devon FHS, the Devon RO, GENUKI/Devon, and the Plymouth and West Devon RO to compile an Index of Devon wills, administrations, etc. The aim of the project, which is motivated by the total destruction of the Exeter Probate Office and its contents during WW2, is to provide a finding-aid in the form of a consolidated index of Devon testators covering (and distinguishing between) original documents, probate copies, transcripts and abstracts. The Project, which has involved a considerable number of volunteers, is now in its final stages, having compiled an index containing over 200,000 entries, from some 420 sources. However, there is one important source, a set of eight manuscript volumes at the British Library, containing abstracts of perhaps 8000 Devon wills, whose indexing we are seeking help to complete. Neither Richard nor I can easily spend much time at BL, and none of our available volunteers is London based, so at the moment the indexing of these volumes is only about 25% complete. If any member of this SoG mailing list, and user of BL, would be prepared to contributing to DWP by doing some indexing for us at BL, please contact me directly so that we can discuss what is involved. Full details of the Project can be found at: http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/DevonWillsProject/ Cheers Brian Randell -- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = [email protected] PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell