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| The list which follows is a selection of the contents of SIGGNL issues 11 to 20. Generally editorial material, short items and reports of officers are omitted unless it is judged that they might be of interest in the medium to long term. | ||
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| SIGGNL
11 February 1996 |
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| Essex Local History Recorders Scheme | Jean Aberdour | Describes the steps taken to co-ordinate a group of active local history recorders in Essex |
| Hardware / Software survey 1995 | Colin Mills | Summary of computer hardware and software in use by members in 1995 |
| Reports on SIGG projects | Tony Rydings | Current progress report on SIGG projects |
| Vicar-General and Faculty Office Calendar Indexes | David Squire | Report on the progress made during the first year of the Society of Genealogists' project to index these important collections of marriage licences |
| Wiltshire Nimrod Indexes | Barbara and Jenny Carter | Brief description of this finding aid for Wiltshire ancestry |
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| SIGGNL 12 May 1996 |
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| FFHS Computer Working Party | Tony Rydings | Report on the 9 March 1996 meeting |
| A Very Big Index? | Stephen Moore | Description of plans for a millennium project to capture historical materials and a database of people, places and events connected with Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwickshire |
| National Death and Burial Index | (news item) | Mention of the ADMIN and SHROUD programs available for this national project |
| Coventry 1891 Census Index | Peter Cobbett | Description of this current project by the Coventry FHS |
| Queensland Cemetery Indexes | Christine Smith | Report on progress being made on this current project in Australia |
| Surname Variants | A A Bethell | A study of how surname variants have evolved which was first published by the Family Origin Name Survey |
| Some Complicated Indexes | Tony Rydings | Experience in using the indexes to Studies in church dedications; or, England's patron saints |
| Index of Indexes | Judy Webster | Notes on some Australian indexes of value to genealogists |
| Reviews of Indexes of Indexes | Dawn Montgomery and Tony Rydings | Two reviews of (1) Specialist Indexes in Australia: A Genealogist's Guide and (2) Index of Indexers |
| The Victorian Census Project Relational Database | (news item) | How to obtain a relational database for coding birthplaces in the 1861 census |
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| SIGGNL
13 August 1996 |
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| A decimal numbering of a one-name study card-index | David Doidge | Description of a system for allocating unique identifiers in a one-name study |
| Indexes of Indexes II | Judy Webster | Follow up to a review in SIGGNL 12 |
| Automatic Indexing | from Trial Trench | Warnings about a program called Indexicon |
| NetSumm Abstracting Software | (news item) | Brief description of software produced by British Telecom for the creation of automatic abstracts |
| Sources for Mediaeval Surnames 1:Ordination Registers | A A Bethell | A description of the most comprehensive record surviving from the mediaeval church in Britain |
| Indexers and Their Indexes | Tony Rydings | A index of articles which appeared in Family Tree Magazine between 1992 and 1995 |
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| SIGGNL
14 February 1997 |
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| A Family History Filing System | W E Townsend | Ideas on how to index a collection family history records and artefacts |
| Indexing a Large Scale Family History Project | Jim Fitzpatrick and Stuart Reid | Description of the indexing challenges involved in an Australian project titled The Cultural Context of Unemployment - An Oral Record |
| Report from the FFHS Computer Advisory Group | Colin Mills | Latest news from this national forum |
| Indexing of Scottish Records | Margaret Shand | Personal account of the author's work which has concentrated on cenus records of Banffshire |
| Further Thoughts on "Indexers and Their Indexes" | Tony Rydings | An analysis of the first 26 articles in a series published in Family Tree Magazine |
| USGenWeb Seeks to Organise Online Sources | John Rigdon | Information about the USGenWeb project |
| Report from BSI Committee IDT/2/11 | Colin Mills | Dealing in particular with place name standards |
| The Best of the USGenWeb Project | Mark Howells | A description of this US project to make genelogical information available on the web for every county in the USA |
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| SIGGNL
15 June 1997 |
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| My personal interests, and what I would like covered in future newsletters | Sheila Scowcroft | This article, sets out the needs of a self-confessed beginner in genealogical indexing, and includes responses from a number of more experienced members of the Group. Clearly computer technology has advanced since this was first published, but the principles mentioned in the answers to these "FAQs" may still be of value. |
| AACR2 headings for local churches and parishes in Great Britain | Colin Mills | This is an abstract of an article by John Gilbert published in Catalogue and Index, Spring 1997 in which the author analyses the discrepancies in interpretation of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules by the Library of Congress and the British Library |
| Postcard Collecting and Family History: a Review | Tony Rydings | This article concentrates on discussing suitable methods for recording postcard collections as a family history source and it compares Postcard Collector's Database with a comparable database of the author's own design |
| Why the Internet Needs Input from Librarians | Bentley Burrows | The author sets out his views on the unsatisfactory nature of the current web search engines and proposes improved guides and virtual libraries as a solution |
| Metadata: a Summary | Colin Mills | This article summarises current developments in the use of metadata (ie data about data) including mention of the Dublin Core metadata element set and the Warwick Framework |
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| SIGGNL
16 November 1997 |
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| Microsoft Access and Family History | Michael Cayley | How the author has used this general purpose database program |
| Databases for Family History and Their Indexes | Tony Rydings | A survey of the indexing cababilities of some popular family history database programs |
| A Sample of the Dedications File | Tony Rydings | Provides examples and explanations of the output from the SIGG project on church dedications |
| File Express | Kath Williams | A review of this database program |
| Using a General Purpose Database for Genealogical Indexing - Part 1 | David Squire | General discussion of this topic with examples drawn from using FoxPro as the database of choice for the Vicar-General marriage licence indexing project |
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| SIGGNL
17 February/March 1998 |
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| Using a General Purpose Database for Genealogical Indexing - Part 2 | David Squire | Continuation and conclusion of the article started in SIGGNL 16 |
| How Accurate is Soundex Matching? | Alan Stanier | An analysis of the problems which occur when using the various Soundex algorithms for genealogy |
| An Assessment of Name Matching Algorithms | A J Tait and Brian Randell | An abstract of a 38 page paper dealing with the challenges of developing a satisfactory way of handling variations in surname spellings |
| The British 1881 Census Project - Part 1 | Stephen C Young | The first part of a paper explaining the huge amount of organisation and effort that is being put into the creation of the British 1881 census database |
| Name Variants and Sorting | Derek Milledge | Discussion of the choices facing indexers when sorting surnames names and given names |
| Indexing of Periodicals - Introduction | Tony Rydings | The first part of a four part series of articles exploring the particular issues relating to the indexing of genealogical and related periodicals |
| Reviews on Newspaper Indexing | Colin Mills and Tony Rydings | Reviews of two books on newspaper indexing |
| Friends of the Public Record Office - Indexing Project | David T Hawkings | Description of a proposed project to index covering the administrations from 1812 to 1857 for all country courts for England and Wales |
| Buckinghamshire Monumental Inscription Collection | Diane Gulland | How to purchase micofiche copies of this collection |
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| SIGGNL
18 June 1998 |
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| The British 1881 Census Project - Part 2 | Stephen C Young | The second part of a series which started in SIGGNL 17 |
| Indexing of Periodicals - Kinds of Entry | Tony Rydings | The second part of a four part series which started in SIGGNL 17 |
| Patronymic Problems | Linda Sutherland | The problems of indexing during a period when patronynics were gradually being replaced by fixed surnames |
| Indexing Burial Records and Newspapers | Vivienne Dunstan | Covers Coldingham parish burial records and death notices in the Scotsman from 1817 to 1855 |
| Who are the Specialists? | Tony Rydings | A look at the skills of those professional indexers who specialise in genealogy |
| The Multiple and Still-birth Index | Teresa Williams | Background and scope of two indexes maintained by the author |
| The Isle of Man FHS Projects | Noreen S Cottier | Describes the scope of different indexing projects tackled by this FHS |
| The Currer-Briggs Genealogical Index | Noel Currer-Briggs | The origin and uses of this index of a professional genealogist |
| The Thompson Late Baptism Index | J N Thompson | Issues related to this index of late baptisms |
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| SIGGNL
19 November 1998 |
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| The British 1881 Census Project - Part 3 | Stephen C Young | The third part of a series started in SIGGNL 17 |
| Indexing of Periodicals - Format of Entries - Part 1 | Tony Rydings | The third part of a four part series which started in SIGGNL 17 |
| National Index of Mills, Millers and Millwrights | Eve Logan | A description of the development of several local / regional indexes into the present national index |
| Copying Wirksworth Parish Registers to Computer | John Palmer | Describes the author's three and a half year project to transcribe, index and publish the 70,000 parish records of Wirksworth in Derbyshire |
| A Newspaper Index Project 1760 to 1839 | A G Charlesworth | Describing the author's personal newspaper indexing project |
| Local Newspaper Indexing | D S Hopper | Sets out how a local family history sciety tackled the indexing of a local newspaper |
| An On-line Gazetteer for Devon Genealogy | Brian Randall | Describing a successful project to prepare a gazetteer to be part of the Devon GENUKI web pages |
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| SIGGNL
20 February 1999 |
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| Indexing of Periodicals - Format of Entries - Part 2 | Tony Rydings | The fourth and final part of a series which started in SIGGNL 17 |
| Naming Names from Da Vinci to Du Maurier | Graeme Muirhead | A review of Rules for the Construction of Personal, Pace and Corporate Names |
| Census Indexing in North-West Kent FHS | Stephen Archer | A description of the project to index the 1851 census of parishes in North-West Kent |
| The Entertainers Index | Marjorie Dunn | A specialist index covering a group of people who have always been itinerant and therefore difficult to trace |
| Romany and Traveller Index | Robert Duncan | How this unique index of over 40,000 entries has been compiled and some of the challenges faced |
| The Complete Peerage: Indexes versus CD-ROMs | Peter Hammond | Considerations behind whether to index all of the volumes in The complete Peerage or adopt a different approach |
| Family Bible Inscriptions Surname Index | Rena King | The author describes how she built up this collection of inscriptions from submissions from all over the world |
| The Brickmakers' Index: Its Origins and Inclusions | David Cuffey | This article provides the background to this index which is a useful finding aid for the location of families involved in this seasonal and to some extent itinerant trade |
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