Useful Resources
Hi all:
Prosopography is a study that identifies and relates a group of persons or characters within a particular historical or literary context,
The is a a potentially invaluable (to we who are researching ancient lines and family connections) site that we found last week. It is dedicated to prosopograhy and is:
http://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/research/prosophttp://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/research/prosop
If you can reach it with the above, key in the URL up to uk and search from there.
The site is associated with Oxford University in the U.K.
Here, you will find a 1998 reference to "The prosopography of Domesday Book which is part of the COEL research project (that) will be published later this year by Boydell and Brewer as Domesday People: A Prosopography of persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Volume I. Domesday Book."
I have not attempted to look up the availability of this book, or its cost, but I would consider it to be invaluable.
While this may pr3esent some difficulties for we US residents, also mentioned at thre site are several other reference volumes available at the Bodleian Library at Oxford and the Cambridge University Library.
You msay want also to check
http:www. asnc.cam.ac.uk
for a so-called handlist by Sawyer that was to have been published in 2000. This provides details of important charters, including those which "came to light" after 1968.
Good hunting.
Rick