Index Information:

Notes from the compiler of the indexes:
“This Beacon Lights index includes all the issues from 1941 through 2000. Some explanation is needed for figuring out parts of it, particularly the volume/issue/page column. Some of the volumes in the set used by the Beacon Lights organization were bound together with other volumes, and a wrong volume number was put on the front cover. For example, some of the issues from Volume 26 of the Beacon Lights are indexed in a book marked “Volume 27.” I indexed them as the correct volume, with the volume number on the book in parentheses behind it.

“In Volume 24 (Book 25), there are two Issue 8s. I indexed them as 8a and 8b

“When I got to the volumes marked only by a year, I put volume numbers on them, following the last volume number I had. However, when they started putting volume numbers on the books again, they were back to a number that had already been used. Therefore, there is a Volume 51a & 51b, and the same with 52 and 53.”

The indexes are in Acrobat PDF format. To view them you need either the Acrobat program, or the FREE reader available for download from www.adobe.com

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Index Sorted by Article Title

Index Sorted by Author

Beginning Index

The unsorted index in an Excel spreadsheet file

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