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The objective of the Census of Overland Emigrant Documents (COED) is to provide historians with a tool to guide them in their research of the trails and the emigration. To meet that objective, OCTA's volunteers survey documents - the diaries, journals, letters, reminiscences, and autobiographies - the emigrants wrote to describe their journeys across the plains. The results of the surveys are entered into a computer database. Access to that database will be provided to researchers through the Emigrant Trails Researcher's Tool, at some time in the near future.
The COED database is organized to provide information on the document itself, the wagon train and the journey taken, the people named in the documents, the locations mentioned, and incidents involving Native Americans.
Most reports generated by queries implemented through the Emigrant Trails Researcher's Tool will refer researchers to documents in which they can find information applicable to their research projects. In some instances, reports will consist of tabulations of numeric data recorded by the emigrant authors. In all cases, the Emigrant Trails Researcher's Tool will serve as a guide to source data that allows researchers to more easily find information for his or her research. In this broadest sense, the Emigrant Trails Researcher's Tool is a bibliographic aide, but one that has a number of tricks up its sleeve.
Genealogists can search for names in the COED database with the Emigrant Names program.
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The Census of Overland Emigrant Documents (COED) CD records essential information from all currently known documents written by emigrants during their overland journey west. Buy a disc set copy for your personal research today! |
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