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| − | ==Welcome to the MarineLives project==
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| − | '''[[Tools: Slavery|Slavery]]''' - Lists 34 English, Dutch & Portuguese slave ships in 1650s HCA records
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| − | '''[[Tools: Probate records|Probate records]]''' - Lists full text transcriptions of merchant wills available on MarineLives wiki
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| − | '''[[Tools: London 1677 Directory probate record lookup|Probate & London directory 1677 lookup]]''' - Matches merchants in 1650s Admiralty Court records to Probate records and listing of merchants in 1677 London merchant directory
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| − | [[File:Litle London Directory 1677 JC Hotten 1863 Piece 190114 copy.PNG|thumbnail|200px|[https://archive.org/stream/littlelondondir00lond#page/2/mode/2up John Camden Hotten (ed.),Little London Directory of 1677 (London, 1863)]]]
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| − | '''The MarineLives collaborative public history project was established in 2012 to digitise, transcribe and annotate the manuscript records of the English High Court of Admiralty from the 1650s and 1660s. The original records are held at the National Archives in Kew.'''
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| − | The project is led and advised by academics and members of the general public.
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| − | In the last four years [[Volunteers|project volunteers]] have transcribed over 4.0 million words and 10,000 pages of Admiralty Court records and have uploaded '''10,289 manuscript images of the records'''
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| − | To learn more or to volunteer please [http://marinelives.org/contact-us.html contact us]
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| | + | ==MarineLives Online Research Seminar: Thursday, April 25th 2022== |
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| − | ==MarineLives Digital Pop Up Lab==
| + | '''We are holding an online research seminar at the end of April to introduce and demonstrate the SOLM-2024 Admiralty Court Database''' |
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| − | [[File:Pop Up Lab Advisors 03072016.PNG|750px|left|Announcing MarineLives Digital Pop Up Lab Technical Advisors]]
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| − | '''The MarineLives Digital Pop Up Lab is starting this week.''' | + | |
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| − | '''Team 1 will work on prototyping semi-automated handwriting recognition'''
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| − | We will explore line and text block recognition of legal documents using software tools developed by the Transkribus project. If we can get a Java coder on the team, we will embed the Transkribus tools in the MarineLives wiki. The team will work with C17th records from the English High Court of Admiralty and from the King's Bench. We will explore whether Transkribus tools can be used by volunteers to create metadata for virgin manuscripts for which there are neither existing metadata, keywords, nor full text transcriptions. We are interested in both the software and workflows required to systematise the creation of metadata and keywords to make previously "invisible" manuscript images discoverable. | + | |
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| − | [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tools:_Team_One Click here for more detail on Team One]
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| − | '''Team 2 will work on tailored algorithmic search, and will prototype semantic search methods on our semantic media wiki'''
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| − | We will explore how historians approach historical search when they are looking for people, places and dates. We will look at search engines employed by archives and libraries such as the National Archives and the British Library, at search tools provided by digital resources such as British History online and at federated search tools such as Connected Histories. We will look at search tools, glossaries, and lookup tables on the MarineLives wiki. Our focus will be on how historians really work, and on how technology can be used to speed up and make more effective the day-to-day task of historical search.
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| − | An explicit goal of team two will be to understand the semantic properties of the MarineLives semantic media wiki. This wiki was implemented in May 2015 by one of our volunteers, Rowan Beentje. With four million words of full text, over 10,000 manuscript images and over 20,000 pages, improved search will have a dramatic impact for all users of the wiki. A number of potential semantic search plug-ins exist, and we would like our volunteers to specify the functionality our users need and to explore the appropriate semantic search solution.
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| − | [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tools:_Team_Two Click here for more detail on Team Two]
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| − | [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tools:_Semantic_Queries Click here for background on semantic search techniques] applied to the MarineLives wiki
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| − | [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Special:Ask Click here for access to the Special:Ask Semantic Query Form] to query our the MarineLives wiki
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| − | '''Team 3 will work on visualisation techniques''' | + | |
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| − | We will explore how visualisation techniques can be used by historians for multiple purposes - to improve the discoverability of data, to highlight and analyse linkages in data, and to aid the comprehension of data. We will undertake an analysis of our own needs as historians and will explore how software designers have approached meeting those needs.
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| − | An explicit goal of team three is to understand the visualisation potential of the MarineLives full text corpus and to explore approaches to mining the data for visualisation applications.
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| − | We would like to explore the use an off-the-shelf Named Entity Recogniser to detect places, ships and dates, and to visualise the results in multiple ways and for multiple analytical purposes. We would like to compare this automated approach to the generation of tagged data to the hand extraction of geographical and other tagged data. We will build off earlier work done in collaboration with the Department of Informatics at the University of Mannheim. Team members will have an opportunity to work with, and improve upon, a MarineLives dataset for C17th ship sailing times between ports and dwell time in ports
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| − | [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tools:_Team_Three Click here for more detail on Team Three]
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| − | '''For further background please use our [http://marinelives.org/wiki/Special:MarineLivesContact contact form].'''
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| − | '''For information on the technical background to the MarineLives semantic media wiki and to the three teams, please look at [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tools:_Tech_Talk 'Tech Talk' by our semantic media wiki designer, Rowan Beentje]
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| | + | ==Who will benefit from attending this seminar?== |
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| − | ==Measuring the impact of digital history==
| + | '''This seminar is intended for doctoral students, post-docs and early career scholars interested in exploring the potential of English High Court of Admiralty material''' |
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| − | [[File:Comparatorstats Ver2 14062016.PNG|600px|left|Measuring impact of digital history projects]]
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| − | '''The MarineLives project team is working with academics at the Universities of Manchester, Oxford, Essex, London, Saint Andrews and Leiden to explore the creation of a C17th legal ecosystem. We are considering making a consortium bid for UKRC funds in response to the current CFP: "Content Creation and consumption in the Digital Economy", to create such an ecosystem, together with a set of digital tools to mine and enrich the data within this ecosystem. Our vision is to build off MarineLives' successful model of facilitated team based collaboration between academics and non-academics.'''
| + | 1. Receive a free copy of the 24,000 deponent, 10,000 ship database (SOLM-2024) to support their personal research, in advance of the seminar |
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| − | We are also thinking how we would measure the impact of such an ecosystem, and have started to explore possible measures. The data we display here rank a number of leading digital history projects and search engines, together with several family history sites.
| + | 2. Guidance at the seminar on how the database is structured, and how it can best be searched and used to address research questions |
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| − | '''We would welcome your comments both on the data, and on what measures are most relevant in thinking about the impact of digital history projects. Please post your comments to Twitter, including our tag [https://twitter.com/Marinelivesorg @marinelivesorg] or send them using our [http://marinelives.org/contact-us.html contact button] here.'''
| + | 3. Hands on experience of using the database, with free online access to 30,000 images which support the database |
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| − | You can also contribute to the discussion of how to measure the impact of digital history projects and help to shape our thinking, by joining a discussion seesion we are holding on Academia.edu. There are many interesting participants, including Richard Price, founder and chief executive of Academia.edu. You can access the session by [https://www.academia.edu/s/ee71ab1fdf clicking here]
| + | 4. Ongoing support for seminar participants after the seminar as they further explore and use the database |
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| | + | ==Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database== |
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| − | ==Two sides of a story of privateering off the coast of Guinea==
| + | [[Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database]] |
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| − | '''The English slaving ship the ''Fortune'' was seized off Cape Vincent on the coast of Guinea in 1657 by two Dutch ships, the ''Mary'' of Amsterdam and the ''Unicorn'' of Middleburg.'''
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| − | '''Read the English side of the story, told by the forty-two year old captain of another English slaving ship, the ''Rappahanack'' [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_13/72_f.27v_Annotate as deposed in the English High Court of Admiralty]'''
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| − | '''Read the Dutch side of the story [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=E5tYAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA354 as recorded in a Dutch book of secret state resolutions]'''
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| − | '''Help the Silver Ships team at MarineLives by translating the Dutch document into English and sending it to us using our [http://marinelives.org/wiki/Special:MarineLivesContact contact form]. We will then put up the English translation beside the Dutch original on this wiki'''
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| − | [[File:Secrete Resolutien 01042016.PNG|400px|thumb|left|Willem vande Water, Secrete Resolutien van de Edele Groot Mog. Heeren Staten van Holland en Westvriesland, 1659-1668 (Utrecht, 1717), title page Try your hand at dutch by [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=E5tYAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP6 browsing here]]]
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| − | [[File:Guinea Privateering 01042018.PNG|1000px|thumb|right|The English slaving ship the ''Fortune'' was seized off Cape Vincent on the coast of Guinea in 1657 by two Dutch ships, the ''Mary'' of Amsterdam and the ''Unicorn'' of Middleburg. Read the English side of the story [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_13/72_f.27v_Annotate as deposed in the English High Court of Admiralty;] Read the Dutch side of the story [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=E5tYAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA354 as recorded in a Dutch book of secret state resolutions]]]
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| − | ==Letter from Daniel Sloyer in Cadiz to Albert Behrens in Hamburg, reporting death of Behren's brother-in-law, Vincente del Campo, January 23rd 1656== | + | ==What we would like in return?== |
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| − | '''Please help us with our latest palaeographical challenge.''' | + | '''In return the MarineLives project would appreciate:''' |
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| − | '''We have a letter from the Staatsarchiv Hamburg, written in German, by a Hamburg merchant living in Cadiz named Daniel Sloyer. He was writing to another Hamburg merchant, back in Hamburg, named Albert Behrens [alt. Berens]. The letter is dated January 26th 1656 and informs Behrens of the death in Cadiz of Vicente del Campo [alt. Vincent von Kampen], who was Albert Behrens' brother-in-law.'''
| + | 1. Your commitment to working collaboratively as you explore your own research questions |
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| − | '''We have got the gist, which we publish here, but we are sure that you can improve on it.'''
| + | 2. Your willingness to offer suggestions on how to improve the database |
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| − | '''Please Tweet your improvements to [https://twitter.com/Marinelivesorg @Marinelivesorg] or use our [http://marinelives.org/wiki/Special:MarineLivesContact contact form] to send us your suggested edits'''
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| − | <u>'''Copia schreiben Daniel Sloyer, aus Cadiz den 23 January, Anno 1656. an H. Albert Berens in Hamburgh: Part A'''</u>
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| − | [[File:Daniel Sloyer Letter 23011656 A.PNG|1000px|thumb|left|Letter, Daniel Sloyer to Albert Behrens, Cadiz, January 23rd 1656 - First Part. Original in [https://www.archivportal-d.de/item/GK5V3ZD7DRW3WFLQTQWJ5HLLJKFZZK3R Staatsarchiv Hamburg, 211-2 K5 pts 1-2]]]
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| − | [?XXX] [?Veter], [?XXXXXXXXX] [?Insonders] groβgünstiger [?herr], undt [?liebwerster] [?XXXüdt], demselben
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| − | [?meine] [?grund] [?XXXX], deβen angrur[?XXX] schreiben Von 24. November habe woll empfangen, eβ
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| − | mögen aller seiner fründs [?XX] des Elendt: und [?XXXXigen] todt des Sr. Vincent Von Campen
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| − | mitt [?fürgh] beklagen, Gott wolle [?seiner] [?Sohlen] gnädig] sein, will eβ der [?fedder] micht [?Vertrauen]
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| − | daVon [?relation?XX] [?thun] Von dem Waβ Vorgangen, undt passirt ist, umb an anders [?XXXX] [?XXX]
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| − | tragen, wir woll [?kpmanet] für seine [?XXXXXXX], wir [?XXX] aller seitt [?gethan], undt [?XXXXX]
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| − | [?mich] für ihm gesetzet in [?Colrus] gefahr, undt mitt [?zuin] aber meiner wollfahrt, undt
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| − | [?gerah?ten], Waβ ihm ge[?XXXXX], aber Er soll [?briven] [?zahtt] Von mir, [?XXX] andere [?gXXXXX] [?XXXX]
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| − | Wollen an[?XXXX], Undt [?Van] mist Viele dingen Von denselben, undt mir [?WXXXX] Vergeben
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| − | so W[?XXX] Er se[?varr] gü[?XXX], Her, undt reputation [?Were] [?üβiyh] Gott weiβ waβ
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| − | bessa[?Xxritt] [?weis] allers wirdt haben, Ich habe bey ihm gre[?X]an, daβ Gott, undt den [?XXX]
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| − | bru[?X]üst ist, [?SrXX] dispositiones auff [?XXXXry] Weiβ, seindt in seinem Erben al[?XXX
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| − | gantz [?XX] mist approbert; so [?]ire wirdt disparat seindt derselbe gru{?XXXX], maβen Er seine [?XX]
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| − | <u>'''Copia schreiben Daniel Sloyer, aus Cadiz den 23 January, Anno 1656. an H. Albert Berens in Hamburgh: Part B'''</u>
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| − | [[File:Daniel Sloyer Letter 23011656 B.PNG|1000px|thumb|left|Letter, Daniel Sloyer to Albert Behrens, Cadiz, January 23rd 1656 - First Part. Original in [https://www.archivportal-d.de/item/GK5V3ZD7DRW3WFLQTQWJ5HLLJKFZZK3R Staatsarchiv Hamburg, 211-2 K5 pts 1-2]]]
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| − | [?XXbrudrfraul], undt drey [?Vor]mundige Kindern, Sie Erben gemacht über seine güetter, Wan [?Er]
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| − | Aber dispa[?XXt] grut[?esen], ist ihm Sie Vergeben, [?Eβ] were besser daβ seine Correspondenten
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| − | [?rXX], waβ Er Verg[?rem], undt übell danken disponirt hatt, [?XXXurs] bedrukens [?XXβ] [?XX]
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| − | [?mieht] in seiner [?maeht] gru[?lesen] sein; wer aber Gott wegen das [?wreXXen] [?XXX] Vergeβen
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| − | dem kan eβ nicht woll gehen, den Gott läβet [?sih] nicht [?shertzen]: worin guetter herr[?XX]
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| − | undt frundt ich habe ein gre[?Xell], wan ich daran [?XXX] [?gedrucken], waβ passiert ist
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| − | Gott weiβ daβ ich [?muht] [?XXXXne] [??le] dingen [?Xxinig] [?XX] [?XXXin] [?XXXXXon] [?u] Vertr[?XX]
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| − | bitte aber Gott daβ ER seine Sohle gnädig sey, undt [?XXβ] nicht straf[?fe] in seinem [?XXX
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| − | dan Wir alle sünder sindt: [?nach] [abgelesnum] diesen brieff, bitte denselben [?zu] [?Verbrennen]
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| − | weil[?e] eβ meine Profession [?XXX] ist, [?librudigXX] [?mousten], [?Vire] [?weiniger] dem der todtist
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| − | [?XXXen] rerudigen sücces [?mag] [?sushriben], weill aber [?XXXX] [?vire] offenbahr ist, so word[?en]
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| − | Auff das herrn schreiben, undt ansui[?hen] dafur [?VXXanlaβet]. mundtlich [?wurde] [?dXX] [?herrn
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| − | Allesmitt [?XXXXrrn] [?XXXXXXX], aber wir oben g[?XXXget], Will eβ der [?XXXX] must Vertraulich
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| − | [?XXX] [?freundts grueβe [?XX] [?XXXX] [?XXXXXXX] [?XXXXXXXX] Daniel Sloyer [SIGNATURE]
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| | + | ==What you will learn from attending the MarineLives online seminar on April 25th 2024== |
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| − | ==Georgius ab Ettenhart - Tesorero General de la Cruzado for Spanish monarchy (1643-1648)==
| + | '''For the next two weeks we will be adding content to this section to illustrate the potential of the SOLM-2024 database. Today we are starting with Historical Geography.''' |
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| − | [[File:AM Schrieus 1645.PNG|800px|thumb|left|Back of book astronomical illustration and dedication to "Per Illustri Domino Georgio ab Ettenhart Equiti SRJ. necnon Catholicae Maiestatis ex in Hispania Cruciatae Thesaurario generalis" Source: [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=xAkHUXEyRRgC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA1-PA308 Antonius Maria Schyrleus (1645)]]]
| + | <u>1. How to explore Early Modern Historical Geography using the SOLM-2024 database</u> |
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| − | '''An astronomical book by Antonius Maria Schyrleus (1645) contains the following dedication: "Per Illustri Domino Georgio ab Ettenhart Equiti SRJ. necnon Catholicae Maiestatis ex in Hispania Cruciatae Thesaurario generalis Fr. Anton: Maria de Rheita Capucinus. Obseruantur et amoris ergo D.D. 1.6.4.5.".'''
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| − | '''Who was the dedicatee, and why was he so honoured? Please help us learn more about the man and his life.'''
| + | * 24,000 deponents with current place of abode at level of parish and town |
| | + | * 2258 deponents with current place of abode identifed and length of time spent at that place |
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| − | What we know so far is that Georgius ab Ettenhart (b.1604, Innsbruck; d.1648, Madrid) was the Latin name of the Innsbruck born German Georg van Ettenhart, who was enobled by the Spanish monarch in 1646. In the 1630s, the same man, using the hispanicised version of his name ("Jorge van Ettenarden") was a leading Paguista on behalf of the Spanish Crown, funding military and other expenditure in the provinces of Flanders and Brabant. Ettenarden appears to have been acting together with Juan Paulo Lavaña, on behalf of the Fugger merchant-banking family.<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PYgdG-PSW70C&pg=PA135&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false Hans Pohl, Zur Bedeutung Antwerpens als Kreditplatz im beginnenden 17. Jahrhundert’ in Hans Pohl, Wirtschaft, Unternehmen, Kreditwesen, soziale Probleme, vol.1 (Stuttgart, 2005), pp.135-138]</ref> Following the death of Julio César Scazuola in 1639, Ettenarden, also known as "Jorge de Hetenard", took over as Tesorería General de la Cruzada" (Treasury of the Crusado).<ref>[https://core.ac.uk/download/files/153/6323089.pdf Álvarez Nogal, Carlos, Los banqueros de Felipe IV y los metales preciosos americanos (1621-1665), Banco de España – Servicio de Estudios, Estudios de Historia Económica, no.36, 1997, p.117]</ref>
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| − | As the deceased "George Etton Heard", he appears in the [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tools:_Three_Silver_Ships#Narrative Silver Ships litigation] in the English Admiralty Court (1652-1654), which is proving a rich historical source and case study linking Spain to the economies and networks of Antwerp, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and London.
| + | * 13,989 ship voyages linked to specific deponents with full or partial nodal descriptions |
| | + | * 8,589 depositions linked to named ships which are affiliated with specific ports of ownership |
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| + | * 3,472 depositions linked to named ships with the voyage nodal patterns fully or partially identified and ship ladings identified for specific ports |
| − | ==Georgius ab Ettenhart, factor of Graf Fugger and Tesorero General de la Cruzado for Spanish monarchy, was a close relative of Zacharias Geizkofler (b.1560, d.1617), Reichspfenningmeister (treasurer) of the Holy Roman Empire==
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| − | [[File:Pohl 2005.PNG|600px|thumb|right|Monthly accounting records of the Pagador general del ejército in the (Spanish) Netherlands from the years 1633-1634. Source: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PYgdG-PSW70C&pg=PA139&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false Hans Pohl (2005)]]]
| + | - '''We are growing this section on the geography and character of ship ladings in response to the geographical interests of database users. Participants in our online seminar on April 25th 2024 will have a chance to influence this according to their research interests''' |
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| − | '''Zacharias Geizkofler von Gailenbach und Haunsheim (b.1560; d.1617) is the subject of a detailed entry in the online Deutsche Biographie by Ferdinand Blendinger (1964)<ref>[http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz20258.html Onlinefassung, based on Blendinger, Friedrich, "Geizkofler von Reiffenegg, von und zu Gailenbach, Zacharias" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 6 (1964), S. 167 f.]</ref> and a useful Wikipedia DE article.<ref>[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Geizkofler Wikipedia DE article: 'Zacharias Geizkofler']</ref> Blendinger describes a talented youth, who studied law at the universities of Padua, Ingolstadt, Basel and Straßburg, following his schooling at the Gymnasium von Sankt Anna in Augsburg. He completed his legal education at Bourges and at the Reichskammergericht in Speyer. In 1584 he entered the service of the Fugger family, as had four of his father's brothers, but left the Fuggers in 1585, with their consent, to join the service of Erzherzog Ferdinand von Tirol. He came into close contact with the leading Habsburgs and his diplomatic skills were recognised by the Kaiser Rudolf II, who appointed him "Reichspfenningmeister des Heiligen Römischen Reichs" in 1589. The Geizkofler family archives in the Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg contain correspondence with various members of the Fugger families from the 1680s through to Zacharias' death in 1617.<ref>[https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?bestand=16974&klassi=009.004&anzeigeKlassi=009.004.003 Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg: 9. Beziehungen der Geizkofler zu anderen auswärtigen Herrschaften und Adligen: 9.4 Beziehungen zu Grafen, anderen adligen Herren und städtischen Patriziern (A-Z): 9.4.3 Füeger von Hirschenberg - von Gemmingen]</ref>'''
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| − | The above-mentioned sources state that Zacharis Geizkofler was an imperial councillor at the Bohemian Court ("königlicher Rat am böhmischen Hof"), Reichsritter and Freiherr. From 1597 until 1603 he was Generalproviantmeister of the Imperial army in Hungary. As Reichspfenningmeister from 1589 it was his responsibility to collect the moneys for the Empire which had been approved by the Reichstag. His banking connections were put to use in terms of organising bridging finance. In his later years, having been forced out of the position of Reichspfenningmeister, he continued to advise successive emperors and chancellors on imperial finances. His son Ferdinand Geizkofler von Gailenbach und Haunsheim (b.1592; d.1653) was a contemporary of Georg von Ettenart.<ref>[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Geizkofler Wikipedia DE article: 'Zacharias Geizkofler']</ref>
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| − | '''Zacharias Geizkofler is likely to have been related to Georg von Ettenhart, probably in multiple ways. We are still working on the exact relationship, but suspect he may have been a much older first cousin through Georg's father's sister. It is of course interesting that Georg van Ettenhart, who served as a factor for Graf Fugger in the 1630s, and then as Treasuer of the Office of Crusado for the Spanish King, was related to a man who performed an important financing function for the Holy Roman Emperor.'''
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| − | A web based genealogical source suggests that Zacharias Geizkofler's mother was "Barbara Ettenharterin" (sic) and that Barbara's parents were "Josef Ettenharter" and "Magdalena Flam".<ref>[http://gedbas.genealogy.net/person/show/1123205324 Verein für Computergenealogie: 'Barbara Ettenharterin']</ref> If true, then Zacharias' mother was the sister of Engelhard ab Ettenhart, the father of Georg von Ettenhart [alt. ab Ettenhart], and Zacharias Geizkofler himself was a much older cousin of Georg von Ettenhart. Zacharias' birth in 1560 would make him forty-four years older than Georg, with his death in 1617 at the age of fifty-seven occuring when Georg was roughtly thirteen years of age.
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| − | '''The above would start to explain how the young George von Ettenhart became a factor for Graf Fugger in his early thirties, as is discussed by Karl Pohl (1972, 2005).<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PYgdG-PSW70C&pg=PA135&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false Hans Pohl, 'Zur Bedeutung Antwerpens als Kreditplatz im beginnenden 17. Jahrhundert' in Hans Pohl, Wirtschaft, Unternehmen, Kreditwesen, soziale Probleme, vol.1 (Stuttgart, 2005), pp.135-138]</ref> Zacharias Geizkofler was located in Augsburg and in his position as Reichspfenningmeister would have had excellent banking relationships with various German banking families, including the Fuggers. It is possible that documents in the Geizkofler family archive relating to Zacharias' son Ferdinand Geizkofler (b.1592, Augsburg; d.1653, Regensburg), a slightly older contemporary of Georg von Ettenhart, may contain references to Georg. These records are particularly rich for the period 1641-1646, when Ferdinand was württembergischer Statthalter and from 1644 württembergischer Hofkanzleidirektor.<ref>[https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/struktur.php?bestand=16974&klassi=008&anzeigeKlassi=008.002 Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. 5. Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg: 8. Beziehungen der Geizkofler zu Württemberg: 8.2 Unter Ferdinand Geizkofler (insbesondere während seiner württembergischen Statthalterschaft), 1641-1646]; [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Geizkofler Wikipedia DE article: 'Ferdinand Geizkofler']</ref>
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| − | ==Juan Esćon - help us solve a mystery==
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| − | [[File:Juan Escon 07032016.PNG|800px|thumb|left|Juan Escon - an English merchant in Cadiz. Source: [https://www.academia.edu/12725559/La_trepidante_carrera_de_Sir_Benjamin_Wright._Comerciante_factor_y_asentista_de_Felipe_IV Ángel Alloza Aparicio, Juan Carlos Zofío Llorente (2013)]]] | + | [[File:Micor History 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]] |
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| − | '''Juan Escon, also known as Juan Escout, was a Cadiz based merchant commercially active in the 1620s and 1630s, and possibly later. He was married to Margarita Enríquez, who was presumably Spanish. His daughter, Susanne Escon, married the Hamburg born merchant Vincent von Kampe, who was known in Spain as Vicento del Campo. Juan Escon and Vicente del Campo appear together in a commercial document dated 1640 for Cadiz related merchandize<ref>[http://www.archivesportaleurope.net/ead-display/-/ead/pl/aicode/ES-41091-AGI10/type/fa/id/ES-AGI-41091-UD-1859526/unitid/ES-AGI-41091-UD-1859526+-+ES-AGI-41091-UD-273566/search/0/escon Archivo General de Indias: ES-AGI-41091-UD-1859526 - ES-AGI-41091-UD-273566]: Scope and content: Real Cédula aprobando la escritura de venta del 1 1/4% cobrado de las mercancías que entraren y salieren de Cádiz, hecha en nombre de S.M. por el presidente de la Contratación a favor del almirante Pedro de Ursua, Juan de Marte, Manuel de Iribarri, Baltasar Fernández Franco, Juan Bravo de Laguna, Juan Escon, Vicente del Campo, Benito Gómez etc, por el precio de 295.383 ducados y medio (fol.202). Acomp. Testimonio de dicha escritura de venta, condiciones y otros documentos sobre el asunto: Date: 30th May 1640</ref>'''
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1. Receive a free copy of the 24,000 deponent, 10,000 ship database (SOLM-2024) to support their personal research, in advance of the seminar
2. Guidance at the seminar on how the database is structured, and how it can best be searched and used to address research questions
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1. Your commitment to working collaboratively as you explore your own research questions
2. Your willingness to offer suggestions on how to improve the database
