FTJ:  Articles Index    https://folklife.uk/articles-index

Some articles may be allowed online, but have online copyright restrictions:-
• This applies to some illustrations from ballad collections, that were allowed as print only (so we’re not allowed to copy online), and/or only allowed as low-res image

​ADAM, Helen
Welsh traditional tunes with notes: § Tune, song, & notes

• ‘Gwenynen Gwent’ / ‘The Busy Bee of Gwent’, Welsh traditional tune, p6-7, 2020 May, FT 64​
• ‘Hobed o Hilion’, from Helen Adam, p10—11 2021 May FTJ 67
• ‘Machynlleth’, Welsh traditional. tune, p43-44, 2019 May FT 61
• ‘Meillionen o Feirionnydd’ / ‘The Clover of Meirionnydd’, Welsh traditional tune, p4-5 2019 Sep FT 62
• ‘Mwynen Meirionydd / The Pleasing Melody of Meirionydd’, Welsh traditional tune, Arr. Helen Adam p8-9 2020 Sep FT 65
• ‘Walts Trefforest’ / ‘The Treforest Waltz’, p15 2021 Sep - FTJ 68
• Welsh traditional tune & notes: ‘Morys Morgannwg’ / ‘The Glamorgan Morris’, p6 2022 Jan - FTJ 69
• ‘Y Ferch o Blwy Penderyn’ / ‘The Girl from Penderyn Parish’, ​​§ Welsh traditional tune & song, p6-7 2020 Jan FT 63​
• ‘Y Ferch o’r Scêr’ / ‘The Maid of Sker’’, Welsh traditional tune, and song, Arr. Helen Adam, p6-7 2021 Jan FT 66​

ADAM, Helen
Klezmer Korner, tunes with notes:

• Tune & notes: Klezmer Korner, ‘Mekhutonim Tsum Tisch”, Klezmer, arranged Helen Adam, p6-7 2022 May - FTJ 70

ADKINS, Roy & Lesley - articles with songs

• ‘A Propaganda Lullaby’ p46-47 2015 Jul FT 46
• ‘Abroad for Pleasure’, A Footnote [to article Gwilym Davies, p49 Apr FT 57] p46 2018 Jul FT 58
• ‘Beating the Bounds’ p41 2014 Jan FT 40
• 'Block Ornaments’ p39 2013 Apr FT 37
• 'Cockades' p41 2013 Apr FT 37
• ‘Drive the Cold Winter Away’ … p43-44 2015 Jan FT 44
• ‘I trudge the morning dew...’ p31-32 2016 Oct FT 51
• 'Johnny Cope', p12-14, 2023 Jan FTJ 72
• ‘Joseph Ritson, Song Collector p42 2016 Jan FT 48
• 'Poor Portraits and Broken Tokens' p30-31 2017 Jul FT 54
• 'Roll, Alabama, Roll', ​p2,4 2020 Jan FT 63
• Rushes, p14-156 2024 Mar FTJ 75
• ‘Selling Wives’, p44-45 2019 Jan FT 60
• ‘Stand To Your Guns’ p47-48 2018 Apr FT 57
• 'The Banks of the Nile', p10-11 2023 May FTJ 73
• The Boar’s Head Carol – and Blood Month' p40-41 2018 Jan FT 56
• 'The British Salamanders’ p27-29 2017 Oct FT 55
• 'The Death of Saint Monday' p43 2013 Oct FT 39
• 'The Female Cabin Boy' p29 2016 Apr FT 49
• ‘The Handloom Weaver & the Factory Maid’ p44-45 2014 Oct FT 43
• ‘The Leaving of Liverpool’, by Roy & Lesley Adkins, p4-5 2021 Jan FT 66​
• The Poor Ballad Sellers and Singers, by Roy & Lesley Adkins, pp4-5 2022 Jan - FTJ 69
• ‘The Sailor’s Dream’ [Franklin] ........... p41-42, 2019 May FT 61
• ‘The Saucy Sailor’ .............. p2, p4, 2020 May, FT 64​
• The Song and the Place: ‘Here’s the Tender Coming’ p41 2013 Jul FT 38
• ‘The Standing Stones Ballad’ p42-43 2014 Apr FT 41
• The Twa Corbies, by Roy & Lesley Adkins, p8-9 2022 May - FTJ 70​
• Who was Kishmul?, by Roy & Lesley Adkins, p12-13, 2022 Sep FTJ 71
• ‘Women Who Went To War’ p40 2015 Oct FT 47​

ANDREWS, Colin (with ROWLEY, Stephen(:

• Obit: Gwilym Davies, 1946 - 2022, by Colin Andrews & Stephen Rowley, p14-15, 2022 Sep FTJ 71​
• 'Two Black Crows', p2, 2023 Jan FTJ 72

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BAXTER, John & Jane

• Centenary celebrations of 'The Folk-lore of Herefordshire’ p35 2013 Jan FT 36

BULL, Brian articles about songs

• ‘Here we come a-wassailing’ p43-44 2016 Jan FT 48
• ‘Lost in the Arctic’: The Story of the Franklin Expedition p42-43 2015 Oct FT 47
• To Welcome in the May’ p27-2 2016 Apr FT 49
• ‘The Greenland Whale’ p26-27 2016 Jul FT-50
• ‘The Holly and the Ivy’ p30-31 2016 Oct FT 51

DANIEL, Nia Mai, Rheolwr Rhaglen, Yr Archif Gerddorol Gymreig, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / Programme Manager, The Welsh Music Archive, National Library of Wales

• “O’r Archif” at Tŷ Gwerin, presentation on the archive of J Lloyd Williams with Arfon Gwilym and Sioned Webb, p12 2020 Jan FT 63
• Songs’ notes: ‘The singing birds’. Three songs sung by Merêd and Phyllis Kinney, by Nia Mai Daniel, p16 2021 Sep - FTJ 68​

DAVIES, Geoff

• What is Folk ? p16 2008 Dec FWJ 02

† DAVIES, Gwilym:

• Gwilym Davies, 1946 - 2022, by Colin Andrews & Stephen Rowley, p14-15, 2022 Sep FTJ 71

1) songs + notes from the Gloucestershire Traditions website

• 'A New Year Song: Buff Blow’ p27 2017 Jan FT 52
• ‘Abroad for Pleasure’, sung by Harry Buckland, Glos, collected by Michael Price. Tune collected from Mr Price by Gwilym Davies, p49 Apr 2018 FT 57
• ‘All Through the Drunk’ p45 2015 Jan FT 44
• ''Banks of the Sweet Dundee’, sung by Basil Partridge p29 2017 Jul FT 54
• 'Beautiful Nancy (Jimmy and Nancy)’, sung by Mrs P Wiggett, p30 2017 Oct FT 55
• ‘Billy Johnson’s Ball, sung by Ray Hartland, Tirley p32 2016 Apr FT 49
• ‘Claudy Banks (Cloddy Banks)’, sung by George Daddy’ Lane, Winchcombe, Glos p31 2016 Jul FT-50
• ‘Early, early in the Spring’, sung by Norman Perks, by Gwilym Davies p10 2020 Sep FT 65
• ‘I'll Take My Dog’, sung by Wiggy Smith. By Gwilym Davies, p7 2022 Jan - FTJ 69
• ‘Jan’s Courtship’, sung by Archer Goode, Cheltenham p41 2015 Oct FT 47
• ‘Long A-Growing’, sung by Harry Brazil. By Gwilym Davies, p14 2021 Sep - FTJ 68
• ‘Stow Fair’ p43 2015 Jul FT 46
• 'Tetbury Wassail', sung by Reg Wilkins p42 2018 Jan FT 56
• ‘The Barley Mow’ p42 2015 Apr FT 45
• ‘The Bold Keeper’, sung by Harry Brazil, Sandhurst, Gloucester p38 2016 Jan FT 48
• 'The Fox and the Hare (They’ve all got a mate but me)’, sung by Fred Archer, Ashton-under-Hill. p44-45 2018 Oct FT59
• The Golden Glove’, sung by Danny Brazil. By Gwilym Davies, p8 2021 May FTJ 67
• ‘The Gown so Green’, sung by Harry Brazil,Sandhurst, Gloucester p27 2016 Oct FT 51
• ‘The Lakes of Cold Finn’, sung by Arthur Nightingale, p28 2017 Apr FT 53
• 'A New Year Song: Buff Blow’ p27 2017 Jan FT 52

2) tunes + notes from the Gloucestershire Traditions website

• Astley’s Hornpipe’, from Chris Beaumont’s manuscript & GlosFolk website, p2 2019 Sep FT 62 ​

​3) other songs + notes​

• ‘A New York State Folk Tale’, from Catherine LaBier by Gwilym Davies, p8 2021 Jan FT 66​
• 'Bold Lamkin’, sung by Tony Lloyd, Malvern, Worcs p42-43 2019 Jan FT 60​
• 'The Evesham Morris Dances' researched by Gwilym Davies, p5, 7 2020 Jan FT 63​
• ‘The Worcestershire Three-handed Reel’, researched by Gwilym Davies, p5, 2020 May, FT 64
• ‘Wild, Wild Berry”, sung by Ray Driscoll. p46, 2019 May FT 61​

DOWDING, Mark

• Using Zoom for a Folk Club, by Mark Dowding, p8 2022 Jan - FTJ 69​

GRAEBE, Martin

• 'Polly Oliver’s Rambles' ……………………………………………. p30-31 2016 Apr FT 49

GREGSON, Keith

• Bard of the Boats, p12-13 2023 Nov FTJ 74​
• Folk clubs and local radio in the late 20th century p9 2024 Nov FTJ 76
• ‘North East Folk Clubs, Folk Song & Entertainment in the early 1970s’, p9—10 2021 May FTJ 67
• 'Some song sources for a semi-professional folk singer in the 1970s'. Includes song & notes: ‘I Trudged Up To London’ (by Ewan Clark, 1785)., pp12-13 2021 Sep - FTJ 68
• 'The Meeting of the First to take charge of a ship' in 'Sunderland Songs' by Eileen Richardson and KG, p4-5 2023 May FTJ 73
• The ship is all laden (with additional tune by Johnny Handle), p12-13 2024 Mar FTJ 75
• 'The Stockton Sailor', p7, 2023 Jan FTJ 72

HARLEY, DAVID

• A Song My Grandmother Taught Me: The Knocker Up, p5-6 2024 Mar FTJ 75

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​HICKS, Richard

• ‘Spanish Ladies’ ……………………….….………………………… p40-41 2016 Jan FT 48

JONES, Annie

• ​The Old Wonder Not For Joes -- p11 2024 Nov FTJ 76

† JONES, Dave: The Roots of Welsh Border Morris, 

‘Introduction’ and ‘The Evesham Morris Dances’ p5-7 2006 Sep FWJ 01
‘The Village Teams’, incl. a map, and illustrations p4-7 2008 Dec FWJ 02
‘The Brimfield Morris Dance’ incl. 2 tunes, + illus p4-6 2009 Jun FWJ 03
‘Bromsberrow Heath’: Stick Dance, Step Dance
incl. 2 tunes, + illus p4-6 2009 Dec FWJ 04
‘The Cradley Morris Dance’, play, photo + illus p.8-11 2010 Aug FWJ 05
‘The Dilwyn Stick Dance’: dance, tune, p12-13 2011 Apr FWJ 06
‘Much Wenlock Stick Dance’, dance, illus. p12-13 2012 Jan FWJ 07
‘The Much Wenlock Stick Dance', music only p18 2012 Jul FWJ 08
‘The Pershore Morris' (includes sung verses) p18-19 2012 Jul FWJ 08
‘The Pershore Not For Joes’ [1] (incl. sung verses) p40-41 2013 Jan FT 36
‘The Pershore Not For Joes’ [2] (incl. sung verses) p42-43 2013 Jul FT 38

We hope to copy these print-only articles online, but this will take some time.
​Song, tune, & notes, in all cases

• ‘Bill The Weaver’ & ‘Now on that hill …’ ………….. p8-9 2006 Sep FWJ 01
• Brighton Camp or The Girl I Left behind Me, Song and Tune, p4-6 2022 May - FTJ 70
• Down At The Suicide Arms’ ………………………………….. p3 2009 Jun FWJ 03
• Gallant Hussar: Song, Tune and Dance -- p6-8 2024 Nov FTJ 76
  
• I'll be up Your Way Next Week' ...................... p2 2012 Oct FT 09
• 'Jockey to the Fair', Tune & Song, p8-10, 2023 Jan FTJ 72
• 'Lilian’ (from Fred Pargeter) ………………................... p10 2011 Apr FWJ 06
• ​'Married to a Mermaid', p8-9 2023 May FTJ 73
• 'The Back-to-front Song’ see under Two Songs to the Same Tune, below
• The Berkshire Tragedy’ (from Frank Jeal) p2 2012 Jan FWJ 07
• The Bitter Withy, p6-8 2023 Nov FTJ 74
• The Butcher and The Parson’ p12 2012 Apr FWJ 07
• ‘The Cherry Tree Carol - Part 1’, p6—7 2021 May FTJ 67​
• 'The Cherry Tree Carol - Part 2’ and ‘Part 3’, (Part 2, p8-9; Part 3, p10-11) pp8-11 2021 Sep - FTJ 68
• The Chivalrous Shark' ……………………………………………… p25 2017 Jul FT 54​
• The Holy Well, p4-5 2024 Mar FTJ 75
• The Foggy Dew’ ………………………………………………………... p28-30 2016 Jul FT-50
• ‘The Life of a Man’ ............................................. p44 2014 Jan FT 40
• ‘The Nutting Girl’ ............................................. p42 2013 Apr FT 37
• 'The Oyster Girl’ ............................................. p43 2014 Oct FT 43
• 'The ‘Princess Royal’ tune [article] ............. p46-47 2018 Oct FT59
• ‘The Ratcatcher's Daughter' ............................... p38-39 2013 Jan FT 36
• ‘The Scarlet and the Blue’ …………………………………… p3 2010 Aug FWJ 05
• 'The Tree on the Hill, Swiss version' . p10-11 2020 Jan FT 63 ‘​
• The Three (or Two) Crows, p10-11, 2022 Sep FTJ 71
• The Withy Tree Carol’, a version from Evesham p3 2008 Dec FWJ 02
• To Mow my Meadow’ ......................................... p41 2014 Apr FT 41
• Two Songs to the Same Tune: ‘Willikins and his Dinah’ ‘The Back-to-front Song’ p3 2009 Dec FWJ 04​

MENTEITH, Charles: [3] songs – additional comments from others -- re songs to ‘Willikins and his Dinah’ tune

• PULLEN, Bill ‘The Molecatcher’ p10 2011 Apr FWJ 06
• SHERINGHAM, Grenville ‘Go Limp’ & ‘Threshing Machine’ ​p11 2010 Aug FWJ 05

MILLER, Stephen

• Jane Teare and Catherine Ann Lawson: two singers from Jurby, Isle of Man (with 8 tunes), p7-9 2024 Mar FTJ 75

• 'John Callister (1833–1912) And His Songs', p6-7 2023 May FTJ 73'
• 'Manx Dance Tunes from the Mona Douglas Folk Dance Collection', p4-6, 2023 Jan FTJ 72
• Manx tunes: Music Learnt From The Fairies; and “The Girls of Balladoole”, p18 2023 Nov FTJ 74
• Four Manx tunes from Isabella Kennaugh -- p8 2024 Nov FTJ 76

​NOEL, Lynn

• #FutureOfFolk: Lynn Noel of Digital Heritage Consulting Looks Ahead, p7-8 2020 Sep FT 65

​† NURSE, Ron, article originally publ. in FT’s predecessor “Welsh Border Broadsheet”

• 'The Village Mumming Play' ………………………………..…. p28-29 2016 Oct FT 51

• Roy Palmer RIP: tributes by Steve Roud; Martin Graebe; Editors .… p41-42 2015 Apr FT 45

† PALMER, Roy

• ‘The “Arlingham Murder” ballads' ………………………… p40 2013 Apr FT 37
  
• ‘Ballad Singers of the Border’: J. Kyrle Fletcher p42-43 2014 Jan FT 40
  
• ‘Cecil Sharp at Evesham’, incl songs, music, photo p14-15 2006 Sep FWJ 01
  
• 'F-F-D (sh-sh-sh) [The Foggy-foggy Dew]’ p40-42 2014 Oct FT 43
  
• ‘The Frolicksome Keeper’ p40-42 2014 Jul FT 42
  
• ‘The Loss of the Centaur’ p44-45 2013 Oct FT 39
  
• ‘ “Not the Good Old Times”, George Swinford’s narrative of rural life a century and more ago’ p8-9 2008 Dec FWJ 02
  
• ‘Shipmates’ (includes songs & a tune) ………………… p36-38 2013 Jan FT 36
  

‘The Ballad Printers of Worcester’, a series revised & extended from articles originally published in FT’s predecessors, “The Welsh Border Broadsheet” and “The Somers Journal”

1. John Butler (incl. songs & ballad lists) p12-13 2006 Sep FWJ 01
2. Samuel Gamidge (incl. songs, ballad lists, illustrations) [+illus. p24] p10-14 2008 Dec FWJ 02
3. James & John Grundy, George & Thomas Lewis, Thomas Hayes (incl. songs, ballad lists, illustrations) p7-11 2009 Jun FWJ 03
4. Richard Houghton (incl. songs, map, ballad lists, illustrations) p7-9 2009 Dec FWJ 04
5. H.F. Sefton (incl. songs, map, ballad lists, illustrations/song sheets) p12-18 2010 Aug FWJ 05

The Ballad Printers of Herefordshire’, a series (revised as Worcester above)

1. Hereford. Includes songs, ballad lists, illustrations/song sheets p6-9 2011 Apr FWJ 06
2. Ledbury. Includes songs, ballad lists (+illustration p1, map p3) p4-7 2012 Jan FWJ 07
3. Leominster & Ross (incl. songs) p14-17 2012 Jul FWJ 08

PAYNE, Eric, et al

• “Mud, Dust and Noise”: Whitman’s Hill Quarry, plus photos …………… p11 2006 Sep FWJ 01
• ‘A Worcestershire Folk Club: Somers Traditional Folk Club’, by its Members …………………………………… p3-4 2006 Sep FWJ 01

PHIPPS, Linn (with HUGGINS, Doug)

• The Fair Flower of Northumberland, p14-15 2023 Nov FTJ 74

PITTAWAY, Ian: articles and songs

• Angelus ad virginem: why early music and traditional music share the same gene pool' p26-28 2017 Jul FT 54
• Edi beo þu heuene quene: a love song by any name p4-6 2020 Sep FT 65
• Kalenda maya, the troubadours, and the lessons of traditional music, p4-7, 2022 Sep FTJ 71
• Songs that grow like trees: an appreciation of Sydney Carter p12-14 2024 Nov FTJ 76
• The modern myth of Bosch’s butt music, pp4-7 2021 Sep - FTJ 68
• The Lyke-Wake Dirge: the revival of an Elizabethan song of the afterlife, p6-8 2019 Sep FT 62
• 'The Trees They Do Grow High', p25-27 2017 Apr FT 53
• The guitar: a brief history from the renaissance to the modern day, p2-5 2023 Nov FTJ 74
• Westron wynde: a beautiful fragment of longing, p43-45 2018 Jul FT 58

† PULLEN, Bill

• Winchcombe Mummers Play and Winchcombe Morris (‘Winchcombe Cavalcade’, Eleanor Adlard, 1939) p12-13 2009 Jun FWJ 03
• † Farewell to Bill Pullen, incl. ref. to his songs 'Seven Nights Drunk & 'The Crabfish', as recorded by Gwilym Davies, back cover, 2020 May, FT 64

RICHARDSON, Eileen

• 'William Mowatt’s Subscription Sale of Confectionary' in ''Sunderland Songs' by Eileen Richardson and Keith Gregson, p4-5 2023 May FTJ 73

• Bodmin Folk Club: A Short History p17 2008 Dec FWJ 02​

ROWLEY, Stephen (with ANDREWS, Colin):

• ​​† Obit: Gwilym Davies, 1946 - 2022, by Colin Andrews & Stephen Rowley, p14-15, 2022 Sep FTJ 71​
• ​'Pitchcombe Carol Barking', p15, 2023 Jan FTJ 72

SMITH, Hywel Parry

• The Joy Of The Plygain Service -- p10 2024 Nov FTJ 76

SPRY, Lamorna

• Cornish Fairs, Carnivals and Tea Treats (incl. Snail Creep dance tune) p2-4 2024 Nov FTJ 76

STEWART, Chris

• 'The Eriskay Love Lilt: A Detective Story', p8-9 2020 Jan FT 63​

TEMS, Mick

• ‘Merêd: let’s celebrate the legacy that he left’: Meredydd Evans, 1919 – 2015 p44-45 2015 Jul FT 46
• Book review: Teyrnged I Llewelyn Alaw/A Tribute To Llewelyn Alaw p19 2024 Nov FTJ 76
  
  

TUCKER, Marilyn

• ‘Shore To Shore’: 400 years of folk connections, SW England & Newfoundland (photos; song & story extracts) p4-7 2010 Aug FWJ 05​​

UNDERWOOD, Hazel

• ​'Singing for 40 Years! The Pennymoor Singaround', p11 2020 Jan FT 63

UPTON, Rosie (RM: as Rosie MacGregor)

• Golden Gloves & the Squire of Tamworth, by Rosie Upton, p10-11 2024 Mar FTJ 75
• 'Here we go a-wassailing in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire', p12 2023 May FTJ 73
• New songs for old, or how the tradition informs songs today, by Rosie Upton, including song The Desert Rat, by Pete MacGregor and Traditional, p9  2025 Mar FTJ 77
• Remnants and Yarns – Poverty and protest in the woollen industry in Bradford on Avon (RM), p9 2023 May FTJ 73
• Shoes, cats, bogeymen, and the origins or not of Long Lankin p5 2024 Nov FTJ 76
• “Unite and unite and let us all unite for summer is a-come unto day...” A personal reminiscence of May Days past and present, p9 2023 Nov FTJ 74
• Virtual Ballad Walk, review, p2 2022 May - FTJ 70​
• Women in Traditional Folk Song,, p8-9, 2022 Sep FTJ 71

WALTHAM, John

• Travels in Donegal; article including song ‘Pat O’Donnell’, p44-45, 2019 May FT 61

WEBSITES: material taken from websites and adapted by the Editors, Sam & Eleanor Simmons

• The Welsh Music Archive, & Welsh Traditional Music, at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwth, p9, 2019 Sep FT 62

​WILLIAMS, Meurig

• Clera - Welsh Traditional Instrumental Music p41 2019 Jan FT 60
• Welsh Traditional Instruments: The Pibgorn, p48 (the back cover), 2019 May FT 61

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WIMBURY, Robert

• ‘Worcestershire Memories: A Worcestershire Coronation Pageant’ p17 2006 Sep FWJ 01

1. classifying / indexing above (we'll give you free print Journals).
​2. website editor!!

Please contact sam@folklife.uk

FTJ is not viable as a solo stand-alone publication!
FTJ, and this website, are paid for by subscribers to FW: Folklife West print magazine [folk club etc news].
Therefore our priority must be constantly updating our website for FW; so for this site, we need help from others.
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Volunteers wanted - Summary
1) Firstly, as soon as possible, quite simple, pasting info under heading "Articles, songs & tunes" into an Excel spreadsheet.
​ (we also list other info eg "Publications' News" but I regard "Articles, songs & tunes" as the priority).
2) Later, requiring someone more knowledgeable than me, a searchable database for "Articles, songs & tunes", perhaps on a new website.

Volunteers wanted - Details

1) This webpage has lists of articles, each list being one author.
We welcome volunteers who can assist by simply pasting those individual lists into a combined list in Excel format - something like this???
Author            Title                                                                                         Title notes                                                     Issue: PDF A4; PDF US Date Page Emag
Adam, Helen ‘Gwenynen Gwent’ / ‘The Busy Bee of Gwent’ ...................  Welsh traditional tune with notes    .............. FT 64v2; FT 64-US 2020 May p6-7 n/a
Adam, Helen ‘Machynlleth’ .......................................................................... Welsh traditional tune with notes ................. FT 61v2 2019 May p43-44 n/a
Adam, Helen ‘Meillionen o Feirionnydd’ / ‘The Clover of Meirionnydd’ ..... Welsh traditional tune with notes .................. FT 62v2 2019 Sep p4-5 n/a
Davies, Gwilym: 'A New Year Song: Buff Blow’ ......................................... Song + notes from GlosTrad website............. FT 52v4 2017 Jan p27 ft-52

• Issue: PDF A4: A4 PDF downloads for all issues. Some articles (originally-print only) added, they may be revised, hence v for pdf version number.
• PDF US: US-letter size pdfs for more recent issues. Emag: earlier issues also as "Issuu" e-magazines; may omit some articles originally-print only.
• I have Excel 2011 for Mac (works fine, not the latest). A volunteer could use a later version which I could use, or I could upgrade (tables from Weebly, our website provider, are not suitable - very basic).

​2) ​Ideally, a completed Excel list as above would be converted to a searchable database with options of choosing by author, title, etc.
I have FileMaker 18, used for a simple member-records database (I started with an earlier version, kept upgrading to maintain that simple database).
In theory can be used for a complex database, accessible from web, but I don't know how.