Introduction to Newsletter Indexes

These newsletter indexes were compiled by Caroline Haddon in 2006 to assist people in finding information within the newsletters since they had not been digitized at that time. The information was divided into 3 parts. The first part is an index of the articles, queries, reports, and general information contained in the newsletter. The second part is an index of Seeley (any spelling) surnames indexed by first name only. The third part is the index of Surnames other than Seeley which is indexed by last name.

You will find that each index is grouped by years or issue numbers, but you don’t have to know which year you are looking for. Each of the indexes is completely searchable by using the search/find all function on your computer. The search will take you to the relevant section of the index and the index will tell you which newsletter, page, and type of information is included (the source code follows this).

As with anything that is accomplished by hand, mistakes, I’m sure, have been made. We have made every attempt to be accurate. The Society hopes that this might aid you in your research.

Source Codes Reference

The newsletter was started in March 1965. This index is done by year, containing all issues for that year. The issues are numbered starting with 1 and continue from year to year. Therefore, the first index will contain issues 1-4 and the next index will have issues 5-8. Some years may be grouped together due to not always having 4 issues per year.

The location of an item or name will be coded as issue #, page # ‘s. Multiple references for the same item or name will follow, separated by semi-colons.

The other letter codes in the name lists are used to indicate where the name was annotated from. If two codes are listed (A-B), that indicates two sources for the same name.

• A Articles – such as stories, editor’s info, news items, or comments, etc.
• B Books
• BI Biographical Information
• C Correspondence
• CR Correction
• D Deaths
• GC Genealogy Charts
• GI Genealogy Information
• LM Life Member
• M Member list
• OF Officers
• P Personals
• PM President’s Message