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    1. Re: [SFK-UK] Suffolk persons on London Lives
    2. Joy Dean
    3. Thank you, Giles, I hadn't thought of searching in that way. I shall now spend many a happy time looking :-) Joy > From: "Giles Colchester" <gsc@mydsq.freeserve.co.uk> > Subject: [SFK-UK] Suffolk persons on London Lives > There are several persons who were from Suffolk who are recorded on the > new > London Lives website. http://www.londonlives.org/formPersName.jsp The > prime > search facility is by surname, but I was also able on one of their options > to just search for references to Suffolk, and that showed that there are > many references which should be of interest to researchers on this list. > The data is mostly 18th century but there are references to other periods. > Some of the data is a replication of: the PCC wills (on the TNA website), > Old Bailey data (on the old Bailey website), and the London Guildhall > records for insurance records (on the A2A website), but there are some > records, particularly on the London sessions, which are new and which also > have a link to the underlying original document. Altogether a useful > website, and I very much look forward to seeing how people make use of the > wiki that they are hoping to add to it for researchers to record > biographical details of the persons identified in the records. >

    07/03/2010 02:56:12