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=== Indexes === | === Indexes === | ||
In addition to an index for each year of Gentleman's Magazine which was usually published with the December issue of the magazine, a full index was compiled by the College of Arms. This index lists full name and an abbreviated reference to the date, event, and any other person(s) in each entry. This index covers the years 1731-1850.<br> | In addition to an index for each year of Gentleman's Magazine which was usually published with the December issue of the magazine, a full index was compiled by the College of Arms and typed by the Genealogical Society of Utah<ref>College of Arms, Gentleman's Magazine Index, 75 vols. (Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of | ||
Utah, 1958-60; typescript)</ref>. This index lists full name and an abbreviated reference to the date, event, and any other person(s) in each entry. This index covers the years 1731-1850. The index is available at the Family History Library as FHL book 942 B2g Index, but is also available on microfilm (films #599738-761, 24 films) or microfiche (#6026701, 126 fiche).<br>An abstract of the "chief contents of the Gentleman’s Magazine from 1731 to 1868” was published by George L. Gomme<ref>George Laurence Gomme, ed. The Gentleman's Magazine Library 1731-1868. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1891</ref> in 1891. He describes it as "excerpts from the original publications containing local history and information, topographical details, and family history are presented here, organized into volumes by county." Gomme's work has been digitized and indexed by Ancestry.com and is available online to [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=31424 Ancestry subscribers] or at [http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=31424 subscribing Libraries].<br>Also, a four volume set of indexes were compiled by Samuel Ayscough (Assistant Librarian of the British Museum) with some assistance or later editing by John Nichols and by Gabriel Richard. The contents of these indexes are given as:<br> | |||
*Volume 1 - 1731 - 1786 (published by Samuel Ayscough) | |||
**Index to the essays, dissertations and historical passages (pp 494) | |||
**Index to poetry (pp. 62) | |||
**Index to names (pp 239)· Index to plates (pp 10) | |||
*Volume 1 - 1731 - 1786 (published by Samuel Ayscough) | **Index to books (pp 118) | ||
**Index to the essays, dissertations and historical passages (pp 494) | *Volume 2 - 1787 - 1818 (published by John Nichols) | ||
**Index to poetry (pp. 62) | **Index to the essays, dissertations and historical passages (pp 486) | ||
**Index to names (pp 239)· Index to plates (pp 10) | **Index to poetry (pp. 57) | ||
**Index to books (pp 118) | **Index to names (pp 519)· Index to plates (pp 17) | ||
*Volume 2 - 1787 - 1818 (published by John Nichols) | **Index to books (pp 103) and books announced (pp 13) | ||
**Index to the essays, dissertations and historical passages (pp 486) | |||
**Index to poetry (pp. 57) | |||
**Index to names (pp 519)· Index to plates (pp 17) | |||
**Index to books (pp 103) and books announced (pp 13) | |||
**Index to musical publications (pp 3) | **Index to musical publications (pp 3) | ||
*Volume 3 - 1731 - 1818 (published by John Nichols) · | *Volume 3 - 1731 - 1818 (published by John Nichols) · | ||
**Index to plates (pp 239) | **Index to plates (pp 239) | ||
*Volume 4 - 1731 - 1780 (published by the British Record Society) · | *Volume 4 - 1731 - 1780 (published by the British Record Society) · | ||
**Index to names and surnames (pp 687) | **Index to names and surnames (pp 687) | ||
Volume 2 includes an "Index of Names to the Marriages, Births, Deaths, Promotions, &c. " covering 1731-1786 and volume | Volume 2 includes an "Index of Names to the Marriages, Births, Deaths, Promotions, &c. " covering 1731-1786 and volume 4 contains an "Index of Names of Persons" covering 1731-1818. The indexes are by surname only and are available online for free through Google Books: | ||
*Ayscough, Samuel and John Nichols. "General Index to the Gentleman's Magazine" Nichols, 1789. Vol. 2. Free digital version at [http://books.google.com/books?id=96RJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] (follow link to page 64, which is followed by the index, which is numbered as page 1). Indexes names from Vol. 1 "To the End of the LVIth Volume of the Gentleman’s Magazine" and covers 1731-1786. | *Ayscough, Samuel and John Nichols. "General Index to the Gentleman's Magazine" Nichols, 1789. Vol. 2. Free digital version at [http://books.google.com/books?id=96RJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books] (follow link to page 64, which is followed by the index, which is numbered as page 1). Indexes names from Vol. 1 "To the End of the LVIth Volume of the Gentleman’s Magazine" and covers 1731-1786. | ||
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*Dobson, David. ''American Vital Records from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1868''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987. {{FHL|973 V22d}}. | *Dobson, David. ''American Vital Records from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1868''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987. {{FHL|973 V22d}}. | ||
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