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<div style="text-align: center;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 09 July 2008 - Volume 01<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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========================================================================<br></div><br>From: <span class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">jonny</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Comprehens" 2008.07.08 (08) [E]<br><br></span><div><span><font face="Courier New">Dear Heather and
Ron,</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">thanks for your
attempts to enforce my engagement for old documents and for estimating an
ability of mine.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Ron, you
wrote:</font> </span></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Arial"><font color="#008080">So, yes, I agree that Heather's
paleography class is a great thing. Jonny, so there isn't such a thing where you
are. How about you starting one? First of all, I know that you have the ability.
Secondly, you could organize it as a paleographic exercise or research circle in
which no one is the instructor, in which people just stick their heads together
and help each other along. Some of my best group study sessions were of this
type. "If you build it they will come." Lots of people are interested in local
and regional history, not to mention family history research. Who knows what
sorts of treasures some people are sitting on not knowing what to do with them?
Also, you could recruit your local librarian(s) to help with research location
and with cataloging your translations and findings. Some local administration
might provide a venue or even some funding.</font> </font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Hmm- I'm not a
retiree yet, so the lack of time might be the limiting factor, at the moment.
But my son is growing fast (today he got his quite good annual school report and
will start into his eighth class after the summer holidays) and getting more and
more independent, so I indeed have to look for additional contacts and
activities.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Heather:</font></span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">> Thanks to the
internet I have been able to search the country / world for original documents
</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">> and have
discovered a cache of mid 13th - 14th century deeds etc among the
Middleton papers </font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">> held by the
University of Nottingham. We have been over 3 times this summer and read most of
</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">> them and have
learnt SUCH a lot.</font></span></div>
</div><div><span><font face="Courier New">You were able per
internet to get knowledge of their existence and place where they are kept, if I
understand you right.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">Spontaneously I
just made an attempt to search the lists of the 'Hannoversches Staatsarchiv' and
'Stader Staatsarchiv' and found out, that here you even can find some details
(titles, short summaries) ONLINE! You can order them (a copy?) by any
certain way I havn't grasped in details yet. That's fine, but: no document
enlisted, concerning our region, before late 17th century. I guess, the older
ones are not so public, but it is them which I'm interested
in.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">But there is
another sad fact in general around </font> <font face="Courier New">the
documentations concerning my home village: as a consequence of the 30 Years War
and WWII (a bomb destroyed that part of the Hannoversches Staatsarchiv in which
'our' documents were kept) there isn't much left to investigate. So a
search has to be done within the extended
region.</font></span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><font face="Courier New"><span>> </span>My aim
is to get back to the Anglo-Saxon charters which have not been re-read in the
original </font></div>
<div><font><font face="Courier New"><span>>
</span>for some time. We are lucky enough to have a whole load of them referring
to this area dating </font></font></div>
<div><font><font><font face="Courier New"><span>>
</span>from 750 onwards! But whether we will ever be allowed to handle the
originals remains to be </font></font></font></div>
<div><font><font><font face="Courier New"><span>>
</span>seen.</font></font></font></div>
<div> </div>
</div><div><span><font face="Courier New">Wow! What an
ambitious aim! I wish you good luck!</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div align="left"><span><font face="Courier New">Kind
regards</font></span></div>
<div align="left"> </div>
<font face="Courier New">Jonny Meibohm</font><br><br>
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