LookYourself Up, 1690 - 1800

 



Aanyone with a vaquely Anglo-Saxon name -- and no date many other sorts, though they will be rarer -- can look themselves up in the London Lives archive, which is , as the site proclaims, "A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names."  

www.londonlives.org/index.jsp 

Of course that would be a trivial use of a magnificent archive (there were only 7 John Crowleys in the records anyway) and you will want to look at all the stuff, and think up cool research projects, and ponder how the past rather than shrinking with distance seems to grow larger the farther away we get.