The University of Florida and the George A. Smathers Libraries express their gratitude to all those people and institutions who assisted in converting this index into a modern digital format. Not only has this project broadened access to the index, but it has also increased the utility of the index, which can now be searched much more quickly and thoroughly than was possible in card form.

Our thanks go out to Flagler College and the Historic St. Augustine Research Institute for sponsoring this project with funding from the St. Augustine Foundation. We are also grateful to Erich Kesse and Gus Clifton and the Digital Library Center for their many hours of work in converting the text to electronic form, and to Winston Harris, Chris Nicolich, and their colleagues in the Library Systems Department for programming the search interface. Special thanks also go to library administration and the Department of Special & Area Studies Collections for allocating library resources towards the project, and to Susan Lupi, Charlotte Barnes, Bruce Chappell, and Cameron Barratt for proof-reading and correcting the database.

We also wish to acknowledge the Library of Congress for its careful curation of the original papers. We hope that this new electronic index will augment the significance of the nation's best preserved local archive from the Spanish colonial period.

Index to the East Florida Papers is a cooperative project of University of Florida and Flagler College, funded by the St. Augustine Foundation.