MRP: Searching the wiki

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Searching the wiki


Editorial history

11/12/11, CSG: Created page



Using the wiki search box


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Single words

Text strings

Wild cards



Using primary source finding tools


Chancery records

HCA records

Sir George Oxenden correspondence

Visual images

Looking for existing pictures
- Click on Existing pictures: persons

Looking for missing pictures
- Click on Missing pictures and go to name of place, port or town
- Click on Missing pictures: persons and go to name of person

Digital images of primary documents

Digital images have been made of all primary documents contained in this wiki sources from the National Archives.

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)

Current policy at the British Library does not permit extensive imaging of documents and consequently no images have been made of the private correspondence of Sir George Oxenden.

The above mentioned digital images are currently held offline and are not accessible on this wiki.



Tips


First and second names

Place names

Lateral vs. vertical searching

Time periods

Building interim search tools