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<DIV>You're right, Les...these books are extremely helpful, especially for
people just starting to look at their family history. The entries not only
provide straight data, but there are also clues in terms of relationships
(sometimes) in the names of those individuals who were listed as
witnesses. I bought the set quite a few years ago from the Portland
Genealogical Forum...back in the day before "online". Publications such as
these were crucial to research prior to the Internet...and bless the people who
painstakingly extracted this data by hand...and typed it all out for us.
The books were not hugely expensive at the time I bought them, and considering
all the effort that went into them, I feel strongly that royalties should accrue
to people who produced them. I haven't looked recently, but the
Genealogical Forum used to hae quite a number of equally helpful publications,
inlcuding cemetery, marriage, birth, and death records from selected
areas. Might still be worth checking that out!</DIV>
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<DIV>Carla</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>