MRP: Searching the wiki

Searching the wiki

Editorial history

11/12/11, CSG: Created page

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

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

Inventories

Letters: Sir George Oxenden correspondence

Visual images in this Wiki

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 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