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A Sample of the
Dedications file |
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In the SIGG annual reports mention has been made of the Dedications File, which originated as an offshoot of the West Project. When Dennis West started his project (see SIGG Newsletter no.5, p.3), he included an extension beyond the codification of British place names, by which the dedications of parishes and churches could be identified in addition to the places. |
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An example given in the Newsletter was
Dennis recognised that his file of dedications was incomplete, and when I handed over the main project (place names) to the FFHS Computer Advisory Group (as it now is), I offered to expand the dedications file, not realising that it would turn out to be a major exercise in itself. |
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| More recently added features |
Most recently I have been concentrating on the parishes and churches of Wales, which though relatively few present special difficulties, mainly of language. In the course of development I have added features which I believe may be useful, though I should appreciate comments on whether I have over-complicated the file. The additions are:
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| Example of full entry |
A full entry can therefore read:
To explain the above, the Diocese is St Asaph, place name is in Welsh with English version followed by county (Flintshire), the annotation is an alternative form of the saint's name, and the sources are: |
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Sources used |
Arnold-Forster, F. Studies in
church dedications ... 1899 The codes for dedications include those for all parts of Britain, and the final list will be in a single alphabetical sequence of dedications, with indexes of places and of codes. The sample table below does not include codes, as these will include the rest of Britain, and I have yet to coordinate the tables for all the British Isles.
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| Sample table |
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Abbreviations used |
In the annotations column above, the following abbreviations are used:
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Just as it is useful, and in some cases necessary, to add the Chapman code to place names, it is also helpful to append the diocese to dedications, when the use of that saint or other name is identified with a particular place in the table. Some such names are of course used in many different places, and this is indicated above by +++ in the column for places. The above table was derived from a database compiled in Alpha Four v6, and it took me something like two hours to transfer the data to the WordPerfect version above. I am sure that there is a better way to deal with this material, and as the total number of entries for dedications in the British Isles is over 1,000 (including see and see also references) it will take an inordinate time to complete this task. Compiling the tables for the Subject Headings will also be a major operation, with an even larger number of entries, and I should much appreciate suggestions from computer experts on how these projects can be better tackled. Previous requests for help with our projects have met with little response; I hope that this time things will be different. Surely some of our members are much more skilled with computers than I am? |
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