Archive CD Books USA Releases a Major CD for New England Researchers

If you have early New England ancestry, you will be interested in a new release from Archive CD Books USA. This new disk combines several gazetteers into one moderately-priced CD-ROM disk with a search mechanism that makes it very powerful. I know I expect to spend quite a bit of time with this disk.

The following announcement was written by Archive CD Books USA:

Columbia, Maryland -- Archive CD Books USA is proud to announce the release of a major new tool for researchers of early New England families.

The Compendium of New England Gazetteers makes all of the classic New England gazetteers available on a single CD-ROM.  This comprehensive collection includes 10 rare books, more than 4600 pages, and the names and descriptions of thousands of places, many of which are no longer known by the same name.

Historical gazetteers hold a prominent place on any experienced researcher’s bookshelf, but not just because they help to decipher many of the earliest place names that would otherwise be lost to history. “They are a valuable source of a different kind of information that is often missed by novice researchers,” said Bob Velke, President of Archive CD Books USA. “Gazetteers frequently also offer the names, biographies, and anecdotes about the earliest settlers, ministers, and prominent citizens of those areas.”

For the first time, this collection combines very early regional and state gazetteers with “FastFind” indexing, making it easy to search for people or place names across all of early New England at the same time, using AND, OR, phrase, and word-proximity searches.  The CD includes high-resolution images of every page and six early maps that were included in the original publications.

The new CD was first introduced to the public at the recent National Genealogical Society conference in Richmond, Virginia.  It is the perfect companion to the popular Compendium of New England Pioneers, a collection of 14 classic reference works detailing thousands of families of early New England settlers through several generations.  That CD was released last year by Archive CD Books USA to rave reviews.

”Many of the individual gazetteers have been very popular on our web store,” said Velke, “and we haven't forgotten those loyal customers.”  The Compendium is priced at just $59.95, which is 66% off the combined regular prices of those individual books ($177.50).  Those who have bought one or more of the individual titles have been extended full credit for those purchases when upgrading to the Compendium of New England Gazetteers.

For details about the Compendium of New England Gazetteers, please visit http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com/negazetteers.htm.

About the company: Archive CD Books USA was founded in 2005 in order to make digital reproductions of old books available to family historians, to donate original publications to libraries and other institutions, and to cooperate with these repositories to preserve their existing collections for future generations.  It is a member of the international Archive CD Books Project, whose other affiliated companies digitize books from Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, and Australia.

Comments

[brian mccarthy]

I tried to contact the Arhive CD company (Compendium NE gazeteers etc.) using their contact as shown on the computer. But, after several attemps I was told their listing was not good. I used:
webmaster@archivecdbooksusa.com
Am I doing something wrong?

[Bob Velke]

I just ran a test and a message to webmaster@archivecdbooksusa.com was successfully delivered - so I don't know what the problem might be. You are welcome to write to me personally as well: bvelke@ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com .

Thanks.

Bob Velke
President
Archive CD Books USA

[Happy Dae]

With Google Books doing a similar thing w/o charge for downloading, are the CD Books' sales adversely affected? Or is there no overlap yet? BTW, there are several other groups transcribing out-of-print books, most notably the Gutenberg Project of several years.

I love the Archive CD Books, not only because of their content, but because how SEARCHABLE they are. Good job, Bob!

Happy Dae
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