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Hypertexted index of HCA records held on wiki provides access to HCA records | Hypertexted index of HCA records held on wiki provides access to HCA records | ||
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| − | Digital images have been made of | + | Digital images have been made of documents held at the National Archives in Kew. These images are for private academic study to support the process of transcription. They are held offline, and are not accessible on this wiki. |
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Latest revision as of 07:05, May 10, 2012
Searching the wiki
Editorial history
11/12/11, CSG: Created page
Overview
This page provides a guide to searching this wiki
Contents
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 provides access to HCA records
Inventories
Index page provides access to inventories
See Inventories
Letters: Sir George Oxenden correspondence
Index page provides access to correspondence. Letters are arranged chronologically.
See Correspondence of Sir George Oxenden, 1663-1669 (British Library, Add. MSS. 40708-40713)
See also Letters
Visual images
Index page provides access to over one hundred visual images contained in this wiki. Images include maps, engravings of places and people, and reproductions of images from a range of media
See Visual images
Digital images of primary documents
The National Archives
Digital images have been made of documents held at the National Archives in Kew. These images are for private academic study to support the process of transcription. They are held offline, and are not accessible on this wiki.
They include images of 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)
British Library
Current British Library policy does not permit cost free imaging of documents for private academic study. 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
