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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


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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"


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


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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 all primary documents held at the National Archives which have been made available as transcriptions on this wiki. However, these digital images are held offline and are not accessible on this wiki

These 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 extensive imaging of documents. 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