On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Dave Postles wrote:
> I don't know what the contents are, but it may well be that this sort of
> material has a very broad market because it is in demand by genealogists.
In the case of my colleague, the contents were the documentary history of
New York - pretty much complete, ie everything that had been edited in
the nineteenth century edition, of sources stretching back to the
seventeenth century. My friend had previously been using the nineteenth
century 'original' back in NY for his own research, and was thus
delighted to find that he can now access this primary material from his
own office (although of course this does make it more difficult to get
the department here in the UK to pay for trips back to the States!).
Two final notes: - apparently the same CDs were available from another
supplier, at three times the cost
- the supplier he bought them from was a museum in
America. When he rang to make the order, he was put through to the gift
shop, who made the sale...
cheers
john
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