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25 January 1999
Keeping Up With New Books in the British Isles
The Internet hasn't killed print media. In fact, there's a case to be
made that even more books and magazines are being published today
than there were 25 or 30 years ago. But a singular difficulty remains
with print publications: keeping up with the ones that are published
in a different part of the world than you live in.
Fortunately, the Internet is a great way to keep tabs on new books,
and the august Society of Genealogists in London sponsors a
newsletter to help genealogists with ancestors from England, Wales,
Scotland and Ireland do just that.
The newsletter has the snappy title of "SOG-NEWS-L: New in the
Bookshop", and it features chatty little reviews from Rob Thompson,
the sales and marketing manager at the SOG. Rob gives the details of
new books, CD-ROMs and software that arrive for sale at the SOG,
including the price of each and the URL of the Web page where more
details may be found.
Many of the books are what anyone might expect, including indexes of
genealogically valuable source material, atlases or gazetteers,
how-to books and the like. But an amazing variety of sociological
gems conmtinue to come to light that can help the dedicated
researcher better understand the world of his or her ancestors. For
example, recent newsletters featured books on Scottish society's
handling of out-of-wedlock pregnancies and births, Quakers in the
British criminal justice system, and British apprenticships.
Most of the books are very reasonably priced, and the timely
publication of the reviews makes it a snap to monitor new and
valuable publications for U.K. and Ireland family history.
Resources:
Subscribe to SOG-NEWS-L by sending an email message to
SOG-NEWS-L-request(a)rootsweb.com with the single-line message
"subscribe"
The Society of Genealogists
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England
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