MRP: Searching the wiki
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Searching the wiki
Editorial history
11/12/11, CSG: Created page
Using the wiki search box
Single words
Text strings
Place multiple words within speech marks in wiki search box
- e.g. "Thomas Kendall"
- e.g. "Sir George Smith"
Wild cards
Wild cards are not possible
Using primary source finding tools
Chancery records
Hypertexted index of Chancery records held on wiki and guide to their relevance
- See Chancery Cases
HCA records
Hypertexted index of HCA records held on wiki and guide to their relevance
- See Admiralty court cases
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
