Re: Harlien Manuscripts Help please British Libary

In a message dated 1/26/07 10:12:38 AM Pacific Standard Time,

<< Anything from one to a hundred pages
(presumably of the same volume or logically sequential items) costs a
flat Ł25 or 27. Pricey, but can be very handy. >>

Actually a hundred pages (of the same volume) for only 27 bucks is quite a
steal.

Nathaniel Taylor...

Quid. The times I've got photocopies from the BL it has usually been
for two or three pages at a time, which yields a rather higher cost per
page. But still worth it for, say, (from the Harley MSS) the original
of a Visitation pedigree with the herald's sketch of arms & the
informant's signature.

Tim Powys-Lybbe...

Agreed that there are a few originals of the visitations amongst the
Harleian papers but mostly they are copies, sometimes significantly
edited copies, and the originals reside in the College of Arms. It is
only in the last thirty or so years that the College has allowed these
originals to be used as the sources for the published visitation
volumes.

Nathaniel Taylor...

True. But there are exceptions--e.g. the original of much of the 1620
Visitation of Cornwall, now MS Harley 1162.

Nat Taylor
http://www.nltaylor.net

Nat Taylor
http://www.nltaylor.net

I paid 25 bucks to that scottish ancestry site whatever it is or was called,
where they have all the baptisms, marriages, etc going way back to ... some
time.

At any rate, I found my ancestors marriage and three other sons born to them
other than my immigrant, so it was worth it even at that price. This also
extends Drouin's note on the family (McCutcheon) married Marie Thecle /Charon/
dit Laferriere dit Terriers (1763) by another generation.

Sadly he came to Quebec *after* Jette's cutoff date of 1730 so didnt make
that work which is otherwise so useful as its so comprehensive. My very first
introduction to a work that attempts to collect *every* document into family
groups.

Will we see Quebecois in Douglas' next work?

I'm rambling. Don't hijack threads *beats self*.