ACCESSIBLE ARCHIVES CD ROM EDITION OF THE NILES' REGISTER: CUMULATIVE
INDEX, 1811-1849

INCLUDES 350,000 REFERENCES TO THE PEOPLE, PLACES, AND EVENTS OF FIRST HALF
OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

From its first issue in 1811 until it ceased publication in 1849, the
Niles' Register was widely circulated in the United States and abroad This
weekly offered concise, comprehensive coverage of events in the nation,
and many foreign countries. From the beginning Hezekiah Niles reported the
news in an unbiased equitable style, which included all facets of most
controversial issues.

The Register's freedom from partisan bias together with its comprehensive
collection of official documents and statistical tables, led Hezekiah
Niles' political and journalistic opponents to concede that this weekly
serial was recognized as an impartial arbiter on matters of fact in any
given debate. As a result, the Register was routinely cited in courtrooms,
in legislatures, and in Congress, and its admirers included John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson.

After it ceased publication, the Register assumed the role it plays today,
as a rich resource of inestimable value to historians, students and
genealogists. Widely held in libraries either in bound volumes or
microform, the Register's more than 30,000 densely printed pages are
routinely consulted by those seeking reliable information about the first
half of the nineteenth century.

The lack of a comprehensive index has always limited the accessibility of
the Register. Each of the seventy five volumes included six months of
weekly issues and contained an incomplete, poorly prepared and
noncumulative index Subsequent efforts at indexing the material in the
Register have been half-hearted at best. William Frederick Poole's attempt
to incorporate Niles' Register into An Index to Periodical Literature,
contained only an insignificant fraction of the contents of this world. No
subsequent indexing effort has ever fully uncovered the richness of the
material of the Register.

ACCESSIBLE ARCHIVES CD-ROM edition of Niles' Register. Cumulative Index,
1811-1849, permits instant accessibility to the vast storehouse of
historical and genealogical material contained in this important work.
This database contains approximately 350,000 references including all the
material from the original volume-by-volume indices, together with tens of
thousands of additional entries in a highly analytical and structured
format. Ambiguous and idiosyncratic entries in the original six-month
indices have been edited into meaningful entries under standardized,
library-style headings and subheadings. References to personal names have
been standardized--that is, references to "Mr. Smith" have been converted
to references to Samuel Smith or John Stanhope Smith or whatever--so that
both historians and students can easily find references to precisely the
individuals in whom they are interested Extensive cross-references have
been added to steer searchers toward appropriate search strings. Examples
of topical references include Railroad entries - 3485, War of 1812 entries
- 2145, Napoleonic Wars entries - 2700, Andrew Jackson entries - 1500. The
result is an immensely powerful resource that unlocks an entire era of the
history of the world

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