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 # billsofmortality
 Database construction and other files associated with my early modern Bills of Mortality project (temporary codename: "Death By Numbers").
 
+## current files
+
+- Plagueslideshow.pptx - parish-by-parish plague mortality in the first 14 weekly bills of 1666, made in the 2017 DHSI GIS class
+
+## files TBA
+
+- list of known-to-be-extant Bills of Mortality
+- transcriptions of Bills of Mortality accessed by PI
+- parishes over time (and associated GIS shapefiles, when possible)
+- database structure, files, and code for constructing the Bills of Mortality database
+
+## project personnel
+
 PI: Jessica Otis
 Advisors: Dan J. Evans