brilliant -----Original Message----- From: south-africa-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:south-africa-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of south-africa-request@rootsweb.com Sent: 26 February 2015 10:01 AM To: south-africa@rootsweb.com Subject: SOUTH-AFRICA Digest, Vol 10, Issue 73 Today's Topics: 1. Books of Lawrence G. Green and Indexing (Steve Hayes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 06:11:55 +0200 From: "Steve Hayes" <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Books of Lawrence G. Green and Indexing To: south-africa@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <54EEB92B.31489.E0778F@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I've written a review of "To the River's End" by Lawrence G. Green on my blog here: https://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/to-the-rivers-end/ which also deals with some of the genealogical uses of his books, and links to some other articles with cautions. I also posted links to this article on Facebook, which led to a discussion of indexing Green's books, which several people seem to have attempted, with varying results. Perhaps this is a discussion that needs to be moved to the ZA Indexers list, but I thought I'd begin here, and in the African genealogy list, as many of Green's books cover a wider area than South Africa. The first index I saw was of 23 of Green's books, and appeared to be based largely on the indexes printed in the books themselves. It nid not give page numbers, just the index entry and the book title. I found several problems with this index: 1. The personal names were not listed by surname first. 2. Not all of Green's books were included 3. The printed indexes in the books are themselves only partial I've seen another index that seems to deal with some of these problems, but it has a different one, in that it seems to be only an index of personal names. I've been experimenting with an index of a book that was not included in the first list -- "Full many a glorious morning", and would like to suggest this format that could be used as a template for a more complete and useful index. I think page numbers can be included, since, since though many of Green's books have been reprinted, they have not generally been reset, and so the page numbers are generally consistent in various editions. Is anyone interested in such a project? -- Steve Hayes E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 ------------------------------ To contact the SOUTH-AFRICA list administrator, send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the SOUTH-AFRICA mailing list, send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of SOUTH-AFRICA Digest, Vol 10, Issue 73 ********************************************