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==Searching the wiki==
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===Using the wiki search box===
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'''Overview'''
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This page provides a guide to searching this wiki
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==Suggested links==
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See [[MRP: Contributing to the wiki|Contributing to the wiki]]
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See [[MRP: Expertise needed|Expertise needed]]
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See [[MRP: Testing the wiki|Testing the wiki]]
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==Using the wiki search box==
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[[File:IMAGE_Wiki_Search_Box_CSG_DL_261211.PNG]]
  
 
'''Single words'''
 
'''Single words'''
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Place single word in wiki search box
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- e.g. "Calicoe"
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- e.g. "Goa"
  
 
'''Text strings'''
 
'''Text strings'''
  
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'''Wild cards'''
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Place multiple words within speech marks in wiki search box
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- e.g. "Thomas Kendall"
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- e.g. "Sir George Smith"
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- e.g. "C10/155/38 f. 1"
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===Example: search term "Thomas Kendall"===
  
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[[File:IMAGE_Wiki_Search_Result_Thomas_Kendall_DL_CSG_261211.PNG|thumbnail|550px|none]]
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===Example: search term "C10/155/38 f. 1"===
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[[File:IMAGE_Wiki_Search_Box_Chancery1_CSG_DL_261211.PNG|thumbnail|520px|none]]
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===Wild cards===
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Wild cards are not possible
  
 
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===Using primary source finding tools===
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==Using primary source finding tools==
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===Chancery records===
  
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'''Chancery records'''
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Accessing Chancery records on the wiki is possible in multiple ways:
  
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'''HCA records'''
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* Use [[MRP: Chancery Cases|Chancery Cases]] to access annotated full text transcriptions of cases related to the Oxenden family, together with contextual notes and supplementary resources
  
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'''Sir George Oxenden correspondence'''
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* Use [[MRP: Possible new primary sources|Possible new primary sources]] to identify possible, probable and definite Chancery cases involving the ca. forty merchant subscribers to the [[MRP: Smirna Venture Joint Stock subscriber list | Smirna Venture Joint Stock]] and to the [[MRP: King Fernandez subscriber list| King Fernandez Joint Stock]]
  
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'''Visual images'''
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* Use the Wiki's top right hand search box together with a specified National Archives Chancery Case catalogue code to find specific transcriptions and/or other primary and secondary documents which have been cross-referenced to this catalogue code
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===HCA records===
  
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'''Digital images of primary documents'''
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Hypertexted index of HCA records held on wiki provides access to HCA records
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See [[MRP: Admiralty court cases|Admiralty court cases]]
 
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===Inventories===
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Index page provides access to inventories
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See [[MRP: Inventories|Inventories]]
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===Letters: Sir George Oxenden correspondence===
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Index page provides access to correspondence.  Letters are arranged chronologically.
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See [[MRP: Correspondence of Sir George Oxenden, 1663-1669 (British Library, Add. MSS. 40708-40713)|Correspondence of Sir George Oxenden, 1663-1669 (British Library, Add. MSS. 40708-40713)]]
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See also [[MRP: Letters|Letters]]
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===Visual images===
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Index page provides access to over one hundred visual images contained in this wiki.  Images include maps, engravings of places and people, and reproductions of images from a range of media
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See [[MRP: Visual images|Visual images]]
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==Digital images of primary documents==
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'''The National Archives'''
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Digital images have been made of documents held at the National Archives in Kew.  These images are for private academic study to support the process of transcription.  They are held offline, and are not accessible on this wiki.
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They include images of documents from:
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- Chancery Court (court cases, charter parties, exhibits, business papers, bills of lading, invoices)
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- High Court of Admiralty (court cases, depositions, exhibits)
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- Prerogative Court of Canterbury (wills, probate papers, inventories)
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- State Papers (Levant company minute books, some letters)
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'''British Library'''
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Current British Library policy does not permit cost free imaging of documents for private academic study.  Consequently no images have been made of the private correspondence of Sir George Oxenden.  Transcriptions of the correspondence have been made directly from the physical manuscripts
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==Tips==
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'''First and second names'''
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'''Place names'''
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'''Lateral vs. vertical searching'''
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'''Time periods'''
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'''Building interim search tools'''

Latest revision as of 07:05, May 10, 2012

Searching the wiki

Editorial history

11/12/11, CSG: Created page


Overview

This page provides a guide to searching this wiki




Suggested links


See Contributing to the wiki
See Expertise needed
See Testing the wiki


Using the wiki search box


IMAGE Wiki Search Box CSG DL 261211.PNG

Single words

Place single word in wiki search box
- e.g. "Calicoe"
- e.g. "Goa"

Text strings

Place multiple words within speech marks in wiki search box
- e.g. "Thomas Kendall"
- e.g. "Sir George Smith"
- e.g. "C10/155/38 f. 1"


Example: search term "Thomas Kendall"


IMAGE Wiki Search Result Thomas Kendall DL CSG 261211.PNG

Example: search term "C10/155/38 f. 1"


IMAGE Wiki Search Box Chancery1 CSG DL 261211.PNG

Wild cards


Wild cards are not possible


Using primary source finding tools


Chancery records


Accessing Chancery records on the wiki is possible in multiple ways:

  • Use Chancery Cases to access annotated full text transcriptions of cases related to the Oxenden family, together with contextual notes and supplementary resources



  • Use the Wiki's top right hand search box together with a specified National Archives Chancery Case catalogue code to find specific transcriptions and/or other primary and secondary documents which have been cross-referenced to this catalogue code

HCA records


Hypertexted index of HCA records held on wiki provides access to HCA records

See Admiralty court cases


Inventories


Index page provides access to inventories

See Inventories


Letters: Sir George Oxenden correspondence


Index page provides access to correspondence. Letters are arranged chronologically.

See Correspondence of Sir George Oxenden, 1663-1669 (British Library, Add. MSS. 40708-40713)

See also Letters


Visual images


Index page provides access to over one hundred visual images contained in this wiki. Images include maps, engravings of places and people, and reproductions of images from a range of media

See Visual images


Digital images of primary documents


The National Archives

Digital images have been made of documents held at the National Archives in Kew. These images are for private academic study to support the process of transcription. They are held offline, and are not accessible on this wiki.

They include images of documents from:

- Chancery Court (court cases, charter parties, exhibits, business papers, bills of lading, invoices)

- High Court of Admiralty (court cases, depositions, exhibits)

- Prerogative Court of Canterbury (wills, probate papers, inventories)

- State Papers (Levant company minute books, some letters)

British Library

Current British Library policy does not permit cost free imaging of documents for private academic study. Consequently no images have been made of the private correspondence of Sir George Oxenden. Transcriptions of the correspondence have been made directly from the physical manuscripts


Tips


First and second names

Place names

Lateral vs. vertical searching

Time periods

Building interim search tools

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