Jacquelyn Ladd Ricker, R.I.P.

Tom Kemp has sent the sad news about Jacquelyn Ladd Ricker's passing. Tom writes:

Long time office manager of the Connecticut Society of Genealogists has passed away.

A prolific genealogist and writer - she was a long time presence in Connecticut genealogical circles. She is best known for her multi-volume re-publication of the Barbour Index to Connecticut Vital Records which was also issued as a CD-ROM under the title: The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut Based on the Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records and Other Statistical Sources (Genealogical Publishing, Co.)

See her obituary on my blog post: http://blog.genealogybank.com/

Comments

[Helen Ullmann]

While Ricker's CD of the Barbour Collection and more is very useful, she was not the author/editor of the multi-volume "re-publication" also published by GPC. That was Lorraine Cooke White. I'm quite sure that the two collections are completely independent transcriptions. That makes it useful to compare them. White's books, many of them anyway, are online at Ancestry.com.