Index The
Index
to
Foreign
Office
for
the period correspondence is invaluable PRO, FO 371 finding the to an at aid In by departmental the addition, subject. relevant arranged papers So for a given year are listed at the front of each volume. designations it is from back to the to example, possible our earlier establish turning in heading Document No. 29 the that the of reference square-bracketed Representative Permanent UK's UN, Sir from the to the telegram Nations (Political) Jebb, to Ernest Bevin was filed under United Gladwyn listed (213/92) departmental The Department. the numbers after Foreign Office file (UP) provide designation to the relevant the reference PRO be To do have the to to corresponding converted reference. and now Shelf Lists PRO, both is it the to the at consult necessary which give this marvellous 1920-513 available
sets of references.
Shelf Lists UP is follows: 213/92, Turn the conversion to the as example our Shelf for List 1950 PRO FO 371 files headed from `United the extract first The half 40. Nations - Political' on page tells of the reference number for is file looking 213. The half the that on you are piece second gives you looking for, i. 92. the paper the of you are specific number e. number you Having located these numbers in the right hand column move across to the left hand column for the PRO reference under which you can then order up it in In Sir Gladwyn Jebb's transpires that case our question. the piece found file FO 371/88505. be on telegram can For
dust to complicate matters, I should point out that prior to 1950 a slightly in different system of numbering the FO in that file and paper operated in inverted. This 1950 changed was with the exception of numbers were Refugees German Department from Department, and papers which continued to operate under the old system of numbering. to the shelf lists which, may prefer to go straight researchers as you departments' for file files. list But do titles back all see, to the refer can Since this is an index to individual index at some stage in your research. looking for often exactly pin-point can what you you are papers without in having to know in advance which Foreign Office department lead the was issue. Whereas for the in our reference the telegram on a particular find it in the Index, i. e. shows where you up would above to expect example Security UN Council, heading file Attlee's the the on to under visit in 1950 was not filed with the papers Washington American Department of Some
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