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Contents

Main Articles

• Cover Story - Cracking the County Record Office: A guide for first-time users by Julie Mansfield, a Somerset Record Office archivist
• Land Tax, a worthwhile source for family historians: Janet Heskins on a lesser-known research resource
• Navigating around FamilySearch on the Internet: David Hawgood's guide to the LDS website
• Marching into battle at the Family Records Centre: Peter Amsden's first visit to the FRC is traumatic
• Many curious oddities of spelling on the 1881 discs: Peter Langford plays with the census CDs

Guild Reports - News - Events

• One-name newsletters available for loan: listing of publications in the Guild library
• Country house weekend for Guild conference and AGM 2000
• Enter your journal for Guild award
• Researchers who fail to deliver
• Excellent turnout for Liverpool Regional Seminar
• Forthcoming seminars
• Letter from New Zealand
• Some future events
• Internet genealogy indexes

Regulars

• From the Editor's desk
• Chairman's Secretary's and Treasurer's Notes
• The Mary Rumsey Column
• Reviews: Round-up of new genealogical publications
• Letters: Your views on issues in the one-name world
• It's a Funny Old Genealogical World