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Searching the wiki

Editorial history

11/12/11, CSG: Created page

Suggested links

See Contributing to the wiki
See Expertise needed
See Testing the wiki

Using the wiki search box

Single words

Place single word in wiki search box
- e.g. "Calicoe"
- e.g. "Goa"

Text strings

Place multiple words within speech marks in wiki search box
- e.g. "Thomas Kendall"
- e.g. "Sir George Smith"
- e.g. "C10/155/38 f. 1"

Example: search term "Thomas Kendall"

Example: search term "C10/155/38 f. 1"

Wild cards

Wild cards are not possible

Using primary source finding tools

Chancery records

Accessing Chancery records on the wiki is possible in multiple ways:

• Use Chancery Cases to access annotated full text transcriptions of cases related to the Oxenden family, together with contextual notes and supplementary resources

• Use Possible new primary sources to identify possible, probable and definite Chancery cases involving the ca. forty merchant subscribers to the Smirna Venture Joint Stock and to the King Fernandez Joint Stock

• Use the Wiki's top right hand search box together with a specified National Archives Chancery Case catalogue code to find specific transcriptions and/or other primary and secondary documents which have been cross-referenced to this catalogue code

HCA records

Hypertexted index of HCA records held on wiki and guide to their relevance
- See Admiralty court cases

Inventories

See Inventories

Letters: Sir George Oxenden correspondence

See Correspondence of Sir George Oxenden, 1663-1669 (British Library, Add. MSS. 40708-40713)

See also Letters

Visual images in this Wiki

See Missing pictures

This index page will display available digital images as well as indicating the need for more images. It provides access to maps, town plans, panoramas, and townscapes

The index page does not currently address missing digital images for people

A limited number of digital images of people are available in wiki articles about specific individuals

See People

Digital images of primary documents

Digital images have been made of all primary documents sourced from the National Archives and made available as transcriptions in this Wiki

These include documents from:

- Chancery Court (court cases, charter parties, exhibits, business papers, bills of lading, invoices)
- High Court of Admiralty (court cases, depositions, exhibits)
- Prerogative Court of Canterbury (wills, probate papers, inventories)
- State Papers (Levant company minute books, some letters)

These digital images are currently held offline and are not accessible on this wiki

Current British Library policy does not permit extensive imaging of documents. Consequently no images have been made of the private correspondence of Sir George Oxenden. Transcriptions of the correspondence have been made directly from the physical manuscripts

Tips

First and second names

Place names

Lateral vs. vertical searching

Time periods

Building interim search tools