SIGGNL 1:   May 1993

Notes on Setting up the Group and Intended Activities

Sets out the reasons for SIGG and its intended membership, scope, method of operating, aims and potential projects

The Society of Indexers Genealogical Group

Similar material to the article above but revised and including mention of Aid in Indexing which has been circulated to affiliated societies

SIGGNL 2:   1993

Indexing programs

Mention of Family History Transcription System for PCs with a request for a review by anyone who knows the program and also a request for more information for SIGGNL on Indexer by DCS Software

SIGGNL 3:   Nov 1993

Indexing Quarter Sessions Records: the Shropshire Experience

An account of a collaboration between the Shropshire County Records Office and the Shropshire Family History Society to abstract, index and publish the county quarter session rolls

SIGGNL 4:   Feb 1994

A Letter from the Director, Society of Genealogists

Editorial comment on quotes from a letter from Anthony Camp on the subject of the difficulty of standardising genealogical indexing processes

SIGGNL 5: May/Jun 1994

Technical Development of some Marriage Indexes

Details of marriage indexes, particularly in Northumberland, Durham and North Yorkshire, on which Paul Joiner has been working since 1977

Counties and Parishes: or Chapman goes West

Editorial description of the first SIGG project (led by Dennis West) to extend the Chapman county code system to the parish level: examples are given

Subject Headings for Indexes and Abstracts in Family History

Editorial description of the second SIGG project to compile a comprehensive list of subject headings for the benefit of those indexing genealogy books and periodicals

SIGGNL 6:   Aug 1994

This newsletter consisted solely of a questionnaire

SIGGNL 7:   Nov 1994

Notes on Census Indexing

The author's experience of a census indexing project

The Indexer on Genealogy and History

A list of articles on genealogical indexing and related topics which have appeared in The Indexer

Aid in Indexing: Response to an Article

Analyses responses to the article setting out the objectives of SIGG which had been published earlier in many FFHS member society journals

What does the User Want? - Comments on a feature of MACREX

Personal experience of the flexibility of MACREX to produce an index in a form most suited to the user

SIGGNL 8:   Feb 1995

Indexing in Ontario

The author's experience of a team project to index Ontario cemetery records

The Indexes in the College of Arms

A description of the College of Arms and the private indexes therein which are used as a working tool

The PRINDEX program for indexing parish registers

A description of this DOS program written by David Booth for parsing and sorting parish register entries in order to produce an index directly from transcribed source material

Barrow Plus

Creating of a bibliography of published British family histories from 1975 to 1995

SIGGNL 9:   May 1995

Indexing Announcements from a Kent Newspaper

This project summary describing the indexing of births marriages and deaths in the Bromley Journal and West Kent Herald is based on a report by Ron Anthony

Buying a Computer for Indexing: a Personal View

A useful guide for the first time buyer wishing to specialise in indexing

SIGGNL 10:  Aug/Nov 1995

Indexing on the Fly

A full description of the indexing work undertaken by the Colne Engaine History Society

Contiguous Parish Indexes

A description of the author's project to produce a researcher's aid for rapidly identifying adjacent parishes

KINDEX shareware

Mention, but not a review, of KINDEX book indexing software

Vicar-General's Marriage Licence Project

Request for volunteer checkers to help with this project being run by the Society of Genealogists

The Cornish Mining Index

Sets out the scope of this index and how it has developed to over 14,000 entries since it started in September 1993

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08 May 2005