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From: Garth Swanson <>
Subject: Re: The Huguenot Library
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:56:54 +0100
In-Reply-To: <200407222300.i6MN0jcf024710@lists2.rootsweb.com>

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Mike and Tony

Firstly, thanks to both of you for your advice about searching for aliens
and HESSELs in particular.

Tony, can you give me, and others perhaps, some practical advice about
using the Huguenot Library and in searching the records that you mentioned.

Can anyone use the library, what are the opening hours, where is it to be
found within UCL, is an appointment necessary, what would it cost, is there
a reciprocal arrangement with the SofG, could academics from the U of L or
other universities use it free of charge?

Are the CD ROMs that you mentioned available for use within the library.
Are staff on hand within the library, not for searches but to give direction.

What you described is obviously of great interest.

Regards

Garth

>You might also want to consider a day visit to the Huguenot Library where
>all the denization and naturalisation records for 'Aliens' including,
>believe it or not, people from Scotland, are available in transcription
>form for the period 1509-1800.
>
>The Hug Soc has published these records in hard copy and more recently on
>CDRom, together with the returns of Strangers in the Metropolis for 4
>different years between 1593 and 1639.
>
>I've searched through the 29 volumes of the Hug Soc Proceedings plus
>Smiles, Durrant Cooper and Agnew using the new Adobe Acrobat 6, which
>allows multiple .pdf document searches and have come up with 58 hits in 10
>different volumes of Proceedings for the name HESSEL, which would also
>include HESSELL.



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