A FAMILY PAPER DEVOTED TO THE NEWS OF THE DAY IN SOUTH DANVERS (PEABODY), MASSACHUSETTS
January 6 – June 29, 1864 - Part VI
  The Index is presented in dictionary catalog style.  Title and author listings are in upper and lower case.  Subject lists are capitalized and are based on “an amplification of the contents of the paper”: - A Family Paper devoted to the News of the day, Religion, Politics, Morality; Literature, Science, Military Information, Firemen’s Interests and General Information.
     Other headings are based on Sears List of Subject Headings, 14th Edition, including: Proper names of persons; places; corporate bodies; associations; societies; clubs; institutions, colleges, libraries, hospitals, government bodies; and regiments.
     Subdivisions used in the WIZARD INDEX are: Abolitionist; Accidents, African-Americans; Agriculture; Almshouse; Army Correspondence; Army, United States; Banks; Churches; Conscription; Copperheads; Courts; Crime; Economic Conditions; Education; Entertainments; Etiquette; Firemen; Fires; Food; Freemasons; Gambling; Health; Holidays; Hospitals; Inventions; Labor; Leather; Literature-Poetry; Literature-Stories; Music;  Navy, United States; Parties, Political; Slavery; Temperance; Transportation; United States – History – 1775 – Revolutionary War; United States – History – 1861-1865, War of the Rebellion; Weather; and Women.
     Index entries appear in chronological order beneath subject headings.  The entries indicate the date of issue, page and column number, i.e. 1/6/1864, p. 1/3. 
     The following items are not generally included in the Index: Advertisements, Marriage and Death announcements; Port of Danvers transactions; Real Estate notices; Train and Omnibus schedules; Announcement of Available Publications; Anecdotes or articles reprinted from other sources. 
     Literature appearing in the paper that is marked “Original” has been included; in general, “Selected” literature does not appear in the Index.
About the South Danvers Wizard Index

The Index to the South Danvers Wizard newspaper is published to date in six parts:

Part 1 : December 1859 to December 1860
Published in 1994 with partial funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as administered locally by the Peabody Cultural Council.

Part II: December 5, 1860 to December 18, 1861
Published in 1995 with partial funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as administered locally by the Peabody Cultural Council and the Danvers Cultural Council

Part III: January 8, 1862 to December 31, 1862
Published in 1996 with partial funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as administered locally by the Peabody Cultural Council and the Danvers Cultural Council

Part IV: January 7, 1863 to June 24, 1863
Published in 1997 with partial funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as administered locally by the Peabody Cultural Council and the Danvers Cultural Council

Part V: July 1, 1863 to December 30, 1863
Published in 1998 with partial funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as administered locally by the Peabody Cultural Council and the Danvers Cultural Council

Part VI: January 6, 1864 to June 29, 1864
Published in 2001 to complete requuirements for an independent study at Salem State College towards a Masters of Education in Library Media Studies and with funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as administered locally by the 
Peabody Cultural Council.