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From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <>
Subject: Re: Index to Visitations
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:03:00 +0100
References: <1125622084.400006.60440@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1125663907.099973.123430@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>


In message of 2 Sep, "nige" <> wrote:

> It may be worth trying the following link to an index of armigerous
> families.
>
> http://www.achievements.co.uk/services/arm/index.php

Very good ... but 15 ukp seems a bit steep for a report.

I tried it out by entering the name Smith (ie difficult) and
then selected "Smith of Holt from Co.Essex, Alias VEVILL; from the
Leicestershire [visitation???]" (more difficult). I then looked this
up in my copy of the Leics 1619 visitation but could find no mention of
this family at all. There is no other Leics visitation book on the
Harleian Society's site: http://harleian.co.uk/ so I wonder where they
got the information on those Smiths from. (I could have missed them in
the 1619 book though.)

Anyhow I doubt that finding a (ascertainable) record in a visitation
volume and printing out (or scanning and e-mailing) the relevant deails
would take more than a few minutes so this could be a nice little
earner.

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Tim Powys-Lybbe                                          
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