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        Archive CD Books USA Newsletter
                     22 March 2006
                Issue 2006, Number 3
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In this issue:

o  New menu system
o  Event Calendar
o  Searching CDs
o  New U.S. releases
o  New International Releases
o  Free shipping
o  How to reach us


=== New menu system ===========================

In response to user suggestion, we have redesigned the
navigation system at ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com.  We think that
you will find the menu on the left side of the screen to be
easier and faster to navigate the many pages on the site.  If
you had difficulting finding a particular product category in
the past, please stop in to test-drive our new menu system.


=== Event Calendar ==============================

Representatives of Archive CD Books USA will be present at
the following genealogy conferences:

25 March 2006 - Fairfax Genealogical Society conference
Falls Church, Virginia.
For more information, please visit:
   http://www.fxgs.org

8 April 2006 - Frederick Genealogical Society
Frederick, Maryland.
For more information, please visit:
   http://www.
frecogs.com/meetings.htm

22 April 2006 - Massachusetts Genealogical Council Annual
Meeting and Seminar
Marlborough, Massachusetts.
For more information, please visit:
   http://
home.comcast.net/~massgencouncil/

7-10 June 2006 - National Genealogical Society Conference in
the States and GENTECH 2006
Chicago, Illinois.
For more information, please visit:
   http://www.
ngsgenealogy.org

30 August - 2 September 2006 - The Federation of Genealogical
Societies
and New England Historic Genealogical Society Conference
Boston, Massachusetts
For more information, please visit:
   http://
www.fgs.org/2006conf/FGS-2006.htm

11-18 November 2006 - Genealogy Conference and Cruise
Learn genealogy research techniques from the experts while
cruising the Mexican Riviera!  Prices start at just $826 for
an 8-night cruise, all genealogy lectures, food, and
entertainment.
For more information, please visit:
   http://
www.WhollyGenes.com/cruise.htm


=== Searching CDs =============================

With few exceptions, the CDs produced by Archive CD Books USA
are fully-searchable using Acrobat Reader.  They have been
processed with professional Optical Character Recognition
(OCR) software, making it possible to search for any word or
phrase in the entire book, including table of contents, body,
index, appendices, and original advertisements where they
exist.  OCR technology isn't perfect but we painstakingly
review the OCR process to achieve more than 95% accuracy.

The result is that you get the best of both worlds: clean and
readable images of the original pages as well as the ability
to do an every-word search.

In rare cases (notably including US0100, US0101, and US0107),
the original material was not suitable for the OCR process.
Unusual fonts or text that is in very poor condition make OCR
impractical or unreliable.  Some of the oldern products that
are produced by our international partners (and included on
our web site) likewise do not support a full-text search.  In
most cases, the product description will indicate when the
product is searchable.

Here are some tips for maximizing your search results:

o  Update to Adobe Reader 6 for more versatile searching
options, including the ability to bring up a list of all
instances of the word you are searching for — across multiple
files on a single CD in a single search request.

o  Enter the MINIMUM number of characters needed to bring up
the search results required.

o  Use Adobe Reader 6 to do some trial searches to try to
identify the characters that may be misread. These can show
up in the extra text in the search results list (Adobe 6
only). A few minutes trial will help you to avoid using
characters that are more prone to being misread, e.g. try
entering “rederi” if you want “Frederick”, but find that the
letters “F” “c” and “k” are sometimes misread.

o  Words that are broken between two lines with a hyphen will
not be found

o  Use the “Match whole word” option to eliminate unnecessary
items in your results list, e.g. to eliminate all the
blacksmiths and tinsmiths etc when you only want the name
Smith.

o  Use the “Match case” option to eliminate all the
occupations “smith” if you only want the name “Smith”.

o  Don’t just search for names. Search the book for other
names, places and subjects of interest.

o  Many CDs have only one file, but some have the book
content spread over several files. Adobe Reader normally
searches in the file that is open at the time. If you wish to
search ALL files at once choose the "All PDF documents in"
option and select the CD drive or directory the files are
in—Adobe Reader 6 only.

Using Acrobat's searching feature is a wondering first
finding aid - but do not rely on it to pick up every instance
of the words that are of interest to you.


=== New U.S. Releases =========================

The following new titles are now available on our web store:

Nathaniel Goodwin, GENEALOGICAL NOTES, OR CONTRIBUTIONS TO
THE FAMILY HISTORY OF SOME OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF
CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHUSETTS (Hartford, 1856).
Nathaniel Goodwin’s career as probate clerk and judge
prepared him well for the compilation of the earliest
published, well-documented accounts of thousands of
descendants (representing hundreds of surnames) of thirty-
seven early New England families, most from Wethersfield,
Hartford and Windsor in Connecticut, but some from
Massachuetts Bay as well.

As a result of his extensive experience with Connecticut
probate records, Goodwin was able to provide extensive
documentation for the immigrant generation in most of these
thirty-seven families. He often provided complete transcripts
of the wills of the immigrants, as well as material from the
deed registers, in both Connecticut and Massachusetts. Unlike
so many other authors of the same and even later periods,
Goodwin provided volume and page citations for these records.

The author was clearly skilled in using these early records.
On many occasions, in presenting the early generations of
these families, he stated explicitly how he arrived at the
list of children in a given family, in the absence of vital
records.

Goodwin was born in 1782, in the sixth generation of descent
from an early Connecticut family. With his early interest in
genealogy, he had ample opportunity to collect information
from many living members of the fourth and fifth generations
of New Englanders, and so the data from the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries, although not documented, may
be considered reliable.

After a century and a half the work of Nathaniel Goodwin
remains valuable for the study of the families which he
covered.

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John Farmer, A GENEALOGICAL REGISTER OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF
NEW ENGLAND … (Lancaster, Mass., 1829).  US0261.
In this volume John Farmer produced the first attempt to
survey systematically the earliest immigrants to New England.
Working at a time when published sources were vanishingly
few, Farmer compiled a nearly complete catalog of the
immigrant generation and laid the basis for similar future
compendia.

Farmer’s goal was to include in his work all those who had
come to New England by 1643, as well as ministers and
magistrates before 1692 and graduates of Harvard College,
members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company and
Massachusetts Bay freemen before 1662.

To carry out this plan, Farmer himself inspected such records
as he could, mostly in New Hampshire and eastern
Massachusetts, and for the records and families in other
parts of New England relied on correspondents. He presented
the information in alphabetical order, with many
abbreviations in the text.

Farmer’s work was remarkable for its time and continues to
deserve our admiration.

Product descriptions are by Robert Charles Anderson, FASG,
for Archive CD Books USA.

For information about any of these new titles, please visit
http://www.
ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com.


=== New International Releases =====================

The following products have been recently released or were
otherwise previously omitted from our web store:

NOVA SCOTIA IN ITS HISTORICAL, MERCANTILE AND INDUSTRIAL
RELATIONS.  CA0173.
An excellent and comprehensive history of Nova Scotia with a
rather misleading title. In his preface the author explains
that when preparing the manuscript for this book he was
anticipating the publication of the results of the 1871
census. By the time he had the draft manuscript completed,
however, only one of the five anticipated volumes of the
census had been released so his final book lacked much of the
numeric and statistical data he had anticipated gleaning from
the census. In some ways this may be regarded as fortunate
since this book as published, and copied here, contains a far
fuller account of Nova Scotia's history than it would if
Duncan Campbell had had to edit it to make room for a lot of
data which, after all, is still available to us in
the said census report.

While Duncan's writing is a little unusual in comparison with
today's idiom it is still clear enough, and his attention to
detail is admirable. His facts are well supported by
footnotes and references and he has even included a series of
appendices to carry quoted documents and reports. Duncan
states that his intention was to make the book readable and
one of the ways he has achieved this is by including many
varied "slices" of Nova Scotia's rich history in close
juxtaposition. In the space of a few pages we noticed the
discussion moved from the account of a naval battle off the
US shore to the report of a speech given to the Legislature
and then on to a series of published letters on the subject
of scientific agriculture. Each topic was given it's due but
the account didn't labor it's point so that what could be
heavy and dull is made easy to read and informative.

Of course this could not be a representative history of Nova
Scotia if it didn't pay attention to the many and varied
ethnic groups who have crossed the shores and have interacted
with greater and lesser degrees of friction. These groups
include at least the native peoples, the French, the British,
the Acadians, the Celts, the Maroons and the Loyalists. In
dealing with the Celts Cape Breton, of course, comes under
scrutiny giving some interesting insight's into the area's
development.

Approximately 10 % of the book is actually given over to the
discussion of the "Mercantile and Industrial Relations" and
anyone seeking detailed information on the trading and
particularly mining activities will find this a valuable
source of information. The author considered that an index
would be a necessity for a book such as this and so he has
included a very comprehensive 18 page one.
===

William Stevenson and Alfred Stapleton, THE RELIGIOUS
INSTITUTIONS OF OLD NOTTINGHAM.  GB0673.
Three volumes, published between 1895 and 1899. A history of
the religious institutions in this ancient city.

Not only relating to the three main parish churches of
Nottingham, but other ancient churches and religious
institutions too, including the chapels in the castle, a
chapel actually on Trent Bridge, a chapel in the caves of
Nottingham, a mediaeval synagogue for the town's jews, and
lots more.

This is not just a simple descriptive work, but an extremely
in-depth scholarly study in great detail.
===

GLOUCESTERSHIRE: LITTLE GUIDE.  GB0688.
A super little book, first published in by J. Charles Cox in
1914. It contains information about towns and villages in the
county, 28 illustrations and photograph plus 6 maps and plans
including a fabulously detailed county map.

General information included in this publication covers
population and divisions, general physical features, scenery
and woodland, communications, flora and fauna, history,
worthies, industries and antiquities.
===

T. Sharper Knowlson, ORIGINS OF POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS,
CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES, (1910) 2006.  GB1354.
A wonderfully fascinating book, just applicable today as it
was when it was written, or in the times relating to our
ancestors.

Superstitions and customs relating to days and seasons;
Marriage superstitions and customs; Divination and Omens, and
lots more.
===

THE NATIONAL ROLL OF THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 LONDON,
SECTION 2.  GB1372.
An excellent book with details of the people from London who
served in the Great War. Not just soldiers, but also those
with other occupations. Nurses, key factory workers etc.

The National Roll for London was produced in five volumes,
four of which we have now scanned and produced on CD. Family
names are very easy to find as the books were arranged
alphabetically, but unfortunately there is no index of places
and there seems to be no pattern to the areas of coverage.

For information about any of these titles, please visit http://www.
ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com.


=== Free Shipping ===============================

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=== How to reach us =============================

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