Origins Network Genealogy News: May 2008

Superb new source for West Country Research:
Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset

Now available for the first time online, exclusively on British Origins; Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset - a hugely valuable resource for researchers into West Country family history.

Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset began publication in 1888 and has continued in unbroken sequence ever since. It provides a "repository for the preservation of facts relating to the present and past history of the district, and a medium of intercommunication among those whom are connected with it by ties of birth or interest". This very general objective means that a rich miscellany of information can be found for Somerset and Dorset, including articles on history, archaeology, genealogy, folklore and literature of the two counties.

For many decades Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset was the only dedicated journal for family historians specifically from these two counties. Consequently there is a mass of important material of interest and value to the family historian, including family trees, parish register extracts, wills, inventories, property records, copies of documents in private hands and articles on emigration, militia, shipping, churchwardens, the civil war, the Monmouth Rebellion and much more.

The first thirty volumes of Somerset and Dorset Notes & Queries, published up to 1960, are now available in facsimile form, fully indexed on British Origins. You can search on the names of thousands of people, places and general topics, and access any of the 7,646 articles on nearly 10,000 pages published in this period. The articles themselves cover the entire period of West Country history from pre-Roman times to the 20th century.

For details of how to sign up and subscription rate information, please go to:
    www.origins.net/signup-info.aspx.