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From: "John Townsend" <>
Subject: [SoG] Boyd's Index: Yorkshire
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:14:29 -0000

This is good news. Some of us who have been using Boyd's for years won't
have found its going online too exciting, but the prospect of searching the
Yorkshire marriages by bride's name offers something new, and I can easily
see me blowing my quarterly benefit on this (and my wife's too?)

The G.W.R. project is also something new, and I am glad to see the SoG
finding things to interest the "older" members as well as the new, as
increased membership is as much about retention of the old as recruitment of
the new.

Best wishes,

John Townsend

>The Society Librarian says:-
>"The publication of Boyd's marriage index for Yorkshire on the English
>Origins website releases for the first time many thousands of names which
>have not been accessible to users of the book version. Norman Hindsley, the
>Canadian who indexed Yorkshire marriages for the Society of Genealogists,
>only typed up the entries in alphabetical order of the men's names. No
>parallel series of volumes rearranged by the names of the brides was ever
>produced. Now that these entries have been digitised, this information is
>unlocked for the first time. Yorkshire is particularly rich in surnames
>which are peculiar to that county and since marriages generally took place
>in the bride's parish, this index may now help to pinpoint the place of
>origin of rare surnames."

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