I am trying to find a copy of the original pages of the Bristol Port Book showing sailings in September 1723 to Virginia.  I have found in Peter Coldham's book the transcription, and I know that copies of the books reside at the UK National Archives in Kew.  But they require a specific page or pages before they will make a copy, and I do not know the page number, and they will not accept the September date.

1- Does anybody know of copies of that book are available anywhere?
2- Binary Search of historic records.  Assuming the pages are in date sequence, and assuming the book has 256 pages, I calculate that it would only take me 8 specific requests to get to the correct page.  Has anybody out there ever taken this approach in searching out chronological or even alphabetical records?

Randy Cabell


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