new goodies online -- including CP
- From: Nathaniel Taylor <nltaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:51:09 -0400
Recently Paul Reed let me know that the 'medieval families unit' of the
FHL (the LDS library) has launched a major expansion of medieval English
sources online via the BYU Digital Collections website, featuring both
primary sources and important secondary ones. The BYU digital
collections have already been on the radar for a big digitized set of
family histories (among other things). But now there's a distinct
medieval component which Paul expects will be growing.
The biggest new crowd-pleaser, not available online elsewhere yet AFAIK,
is Cokayne's _Complete Peerage_, the 2d edition (13 vols. & 14
parts--everything but the recent supplement volume). Like all volumes
here it can be every-word searched within the whole medieval collection,
or it can be browsed page by page, or it can be downloaded as big
bundled pdfs (actually three or four pdf chunks per volume). I
immediately went and downloaded the whole of CP (though it took a whole
day of periodic visits, downloading only two chunks at a time). _Scots
Peerage_ is there too, but this was already available at the Internet
Archive (I've had SP on my laptop for about a year).
Depending on what sort of research you're doing the primary sources will
be even more significant: most or all of the _Calendar of Fine Rolls_
are there; _Feudal Aids_ 1284-1431; _Rotuli parliamentorum_, etc. Paul
expects other rolls series (Patent Rolls, Close Rolls) and the Calendar
of IPMs to be there soon too.
Other things include the big run of Howard & Crisp's _Visitations of
England & Wales_; & a few other *real* Visitations (e.g. Salop 1623, not
previously online I think); etc.
To see & browse books by title (and navigate to download whole volumes
in chunks), go to
http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/
and select 'Family Histories - Medieval' from the menu under 'Browse'
To use the every-word search engine, go to the advanced search page that
covers the whole of 'BYU Digital Collections':
http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/search.php
and select 'Family Histories - Medieval' from the menu under 'Select
specific collections,' then use the search boxes at top.
Nat Taylor
a genealogist's sketchbook:
http://www.nltaylor.net/sketchbook/
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