NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB IMMIGRANT SHIPS TRANSCRIBERS GUILD <http://istg.rootsweb.com/>. Please note that this is a new URL. Since the birth of ISTG in August 1998, more than a hundred volunteers have transcribed and made available for search at the ISTG Web site the passenger lists of 285 ships. The work is ongoing, the ports of arrival are being broadened, and a new Resource Center is planned. * * * PUBS, INNS AND TAVERNS AND THEIR KEEPERS IN ENGLAND, 1801-1900. The construction of The Pubs, Inns and Taverns Index is intended to provide a searchable database for the whole of England for the period 1801-1900. It has now reached a total of 61,000+ entries in its core area -- London, the Home Counties, Essex and Kent -- and submissions are being invited to expand the areas covered. If you have information on a pub, inn, tavern, hotel or coffee house please submit it, preferably by e-mail, in the following form: Year -- that the information relates to; Premises -- name by which the premises were known; Location -- city (essential) and street address (wherever possible); Keeper -- name of the keeper, as fully as possible; Source -- source of the information provided. We hope to be able to announce a date for searches to commence early in 1999. Thanks in anticipation of your help. Stan Gooch, East of London FHS, and Rob Sones, Berkshire FHS <pubsindex@drones.ndirect.co.uk> * * * HELPDESK TIPS. For answers to most of your questions about using the resources hosted by RootsWeb, please read the FAQs at the RootsWeb HelpDesk: <http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~help/index.htm>. * * * DONATIONS TO HELP SUPPORT ROOTSWEB ARE GREATLY APPRECIATED. For details about support levels/benefits and payment options, please visit: <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html> or send e-mail to: <RW-info@rootsweb.com>. RootsWeb's address is: RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative, P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798. (Please include your e-mail address on all correspondence and checks.)