http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/ Book Futures Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:13:52 GMT MichelaRialto http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/140 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/140 Hi, everybody First: thanks for helping me. And, yes, it was “A.M.G. 1868-1922”. The name was just guessing since Eliot Bliss used to know a person with Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:30:31 GMT J Flenner http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/139 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/139 Nick, I think it was "A.M.G." whose dates are 1868 to 1922--he wasn't sure it was a "Maud Gawn", just guessing her. So anyone w/ those initials? (a little Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:26:48 GMT Nick Hodson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/138 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/138 I happen to have a subscription to view the various English registers of births deaths and marriages. As this cost me nothing but time I checked the deaths Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:38:28 GMT MichelaRialto http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/137 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/137 Thank you Tom, Unfortunately it is not the same Maud! The dates I’m looking for are: birth 1868, death 1922. In the collection I’m editing there are many Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:38:24 GMT Tom Frenkel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/136 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/136 Michela -- Could this possibly be Maud Gonne (1866-1953), who, as the Wikipedia article puts it, was an "English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:05:04 GMT MichelaRialto http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/135 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/135 Hi, Thank you for the suggestion. I’ll try London cemetery, since Bliss at the time was residing in England. She was a creole writer – I guess I’m the Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:10:57 GMT J Flenner http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/134 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/134 Hi-- I know zip about Eliot Bliss, country/state she resided in, travels, etc. But in searching for A.M.G., you might try likely cemetery records with "b. 1868 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:37:26 GMT MichelaRialto http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/133 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/133 Hi, Everybody, I have not received mail in a long while- I think the last post I received was back in May, is the list still active? I have a question that is Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:34:33 GMT bmikesci http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/132 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/132 I've just put out version 1.04 of Simultaneous Stanza Reader. The web site is: https://sites.google.com/site/mikeybeesoftware/ This new version includes a Thu, 21 May 2009 16:48:40 GMT joseph h http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/131 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/131 While this is about newspapers and a scandal it has many points of interest for all areas of publishing. Some hard figures give an indication of the selling Mon, 18 May 2009 12:57:32 GMT joseph h http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/130 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/130 http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/21265 and Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:55:42 GMT Allen Kleiman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/129 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/129 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:22:44 GMT Allen Kleiman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/128 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/128 Dear Book People: I have a book with the binding cut off. I want to scan one side into a file and then the other side into another file. I then would like to Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:11:43 GMT J Flenner http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/127 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/127 I can't remember if it was in the early days of this list, or the late days of BookPeople, but someone was looking for an old book about Sitting Bull and the Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:22:44 GMT J Flenner http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/126 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bookfutures/message/126 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080814154329.htm Aug. 19, 2008 | ScienceDaily Computer Users Are Digitizing Books Quickly And Accurately With New