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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: lil growler on Wednesday 13 June 07 07:37 BST (UK)
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hi there
I have a LDS film reference number relating to the Royal Irish Constabulary. Where can I view this. I'm thinking the library but would access only be available in the main cities. I should mention I'm looking for locations in New Zealand.
Thanx
lil growler
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lil growler
Go to your local LDS family history centre - locations should be on the familysearch.org website if you don't know where it is - and see if you can order the film in. Here in Australia it only costs $5 and usually comes in a few days - copies of all the films are held in Sydney. There was only one, out of the many I've ordered, that had to come from Salt Lake City (for some strange reason!) and that took ages!
MarieC
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Go here:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp
and seach for New Zealand
Colin
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Thank you both.
I found it. I didn't realise it was so close to where I lived. Still one doesn't always know these things until the need arises. Thanks for the help.
This embarrassing and I didn't want to start a thread but where is the rootschats dictionary. I've spent a half hour looking for it. I'm sure it's taken a break, because I cannot find it.
Many thanx
lil growler
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Well, lil growler, I have to admit it's a new one on me :-[
But a search for:
rootschat + dictionary
in 'search rootschat' (button at top of page) finds:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,234766.0.html
The topic is headed 'LEXICON of Genealogical Terms and Abbreviations'.
Never be embarrassed to ask! The only stupid question is the one you don't ask! I've learned something very useful indeed from your query i.e. that RootsChat has such a lexicon/dictionary. What a useful resource when someone asks a question that one is sure has been asked previously. Instead of searching, one would only have to check out the lexicon and then refer to it. Great.
JAP
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Or for those who prefer "street directions", it's in the Common Room,
and stickied, i.e. at the top of the page.
Topic: RootsChat Topics: LEXICON of Genealogical Terms and Abbreviations
Bob
ps.
I changed the name a while ago from DICTIONARY to LEXICON ........Less letters to type ;D
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Dear JAP and Berlin Bob
Thank you both
Street directions are good. I was about to ask what a LEXICON was but thought better of it and looked it up in the dictionary. It's even an english word. I'm happy now. LEXICON awaits me.
Thanks again
PS LEXICON would make a great user name. It has a ring to it
Cheers
lil
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Bob, Lexicon, eh ::) Well, a bit posh but a good word and I guess it has a flavour of a dictionary of words relating to a specific subject - in this case genealogy.
Given the current thread, perhaps LDS and FHC and RIC might be good additions? Or does that mean I need to propose some definitions :(
lil growler, how about Lexiphanes as a user name?
From http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/wftwarch.pl?082406 :
'... our favorite descriptive word dates back more than 18 centuries, and is now archaic. Back in the 2nd century, Greek satirist Lucian featured, in a dialogue, a particularly bombastic speaker named Lexiphanes. No longer in common use, lexiphanic means "using ostentatiously recondite words." ' ;D ;D
JAP
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Or does that mean I need to propose some definitions :(
No, you don't need to define them, but if you find some topics, where these terms have been explained, then add them to
Topic: "RootsChat LEXICON" - your help is requested
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,234767.0.html
and they will be added to the lexicon :) :) :)
thanks,
Bob
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Hi JAP
Lexiphanes it is. Now if only I could add it as an alias to lil growler and of course live up to the name. he!
he! ( haven't worked out how yo place the smiley face )
Now JAP you do realise if you add LDS, FHC and RIC and you will then become a lexicography assistant.
I might just start a thread for Word of the Day.
Nighty night
lil growler
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Hi Berlin-Bob
As a newby I come across many names and abbreviations I don't understand. Although I wont inundate
with them I may just drop a few in from time to time. I guess the LEXICON is more useful to begginners as the more experienced G'S are pretty well onto it. ( secretly I wish to be a lexicography assistant too!)
:)
Thanx
lil growler