Booking is now open for our Computer Seminar to be held at Rosebery School in Epsom, Surrey, on Saturday 7th August 2010. Preliminary publicity for this seminar indicates that it will be very popular and almost certainly oversubscribed, since there is a maximum of 120 places. Like all Guild seminars, the seminar is open to the public as well as to Guild members. Further details of forthcoming events are given in the Events section of this website. (30th May 2010)
Following the very successful Maps and Mapping Seminar held at Helsby Community Centre, Helsby, Cheshire, on Saturday 15th May 2010, five of the PPT presentations given, together with handouts, have been added to the "Seminars" section of the Members Room. Further material will be added as it comes available. (4th June 2010)
Further to the announcement last October of the new Guild Fellowship Scheme, the first twelve Master Craftsmen of the Guild were announced at the AGM held in Thame, Oxfordshire, on 10th April 2010. (10th May 2010)
The 2010 Guild Conference was held
9th - 11th April 2010, in Thame, near Oxford.
Its theme was "Around the World - an international perspective".
Conferences and Seminars are open not only to Guild members but to interested members of the public.
Further details of forthcoming events, and booking information, are given in the
Events section of this website.
(12th April 2010)
Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd
has developed an Advanced Course in One-Name Studies.
Take your one-name study to new levels!
Whatever drew you into the investigation of your surname,
you are now deeply immersed in gathering and analysing data.
You have mastered the practical aspects of managing your project
and are eager for more discoveries.
The course starts on 26th April 2010.
More information about this new course from Pharos
is available in the Members Room.
(28th February 2010)
DNA Developments Seminar: Our DNA Seminar took place on Saturday 20th February 2010, at Cheltenham, National Star College, and nearly 100 delegates attended to hear about DNA Projects. (23rd February 2010)
Seminar: One-Name Sources at The National Archives: This seminar took place on Saturday, 21st November 2009. It took as its topic some of the valuable but under-used records at the National Archives, Kew, and included a "behind-the-scenes" tour. Like all Guild seminars, the seminar was open to the public as well as to Guild members.
Remember that you can always see the programme of seminars for the next year or so on the "Events" page on this website. (22nd November 2009)
A new facility for buying FindMyPast vouchers online has been added to the website. Pay-as-you-go vouchers are a useful way of getting started with collecting data, giving access to the impressive collections of genealogical data provided by FindMyPast (including the 1911 Census), without entering into any commitment - although we sell vouchers for subscriptions too! (16th November 2009)
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"There's more than one way to do it!" -
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New Fellowship Scheme to honour members of our Guild
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Members are reminded that the subscription year of the Guild ends on 31st October, and so your renewal subscriptions are due on 1st November. The standard renewal subscription is now £.15.00 (or £14.00 if you have opted not to receive a printed copy of the Register). Full details of how, when, and what to pay (including the form for paying online through PayPal) are in the Members Room. (1st October 2009)
Full results of the Guild Publication Award 2009 are now available in the Members Room, together with details of a new Library Loan scheme for the Award entries. (1st July 2009)
The Guild's PayPal facilities for booking on seminars or conferences, or for members paying their renewal subscriptions, have proved very popular, allowing payments to be made online through this website easily, quickly, and safely, from either credit card or PayPal account. These facilities have now been extended in two significant areas:
- You can now join the Guild online and pay your Membership Subscription via PayPal
- You can now make a donation online via PayPal
(18th May 2009)
Our "New Members" seminar, held at Amersham on Saturday 8th August, was a great success with nearly 80 participants, including a good proportion of new members and non-members. (updated 10th August 2009)
The Guild Seminar on Non-UK Sources for One-Namers was held on Saturday 16th May 2009 in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and some of the material is now available in the Members Room. (16th May 2009)
The special introductory offer on the Pharos Introduction to One-Name Studies course has now ended, although places can still be booked at full price. The course has proved very popular, and the April and June 2009 offerings are fully booked, but a further course offering is scheduled to start on 17th September 2009.
More information about Pharos is available in the Members Room. (20th April 2009)
New facilities available on this website
(as featured in the April-June 2009 Journal):
NEW! The Guild Register Search widget (for Mac users)
NEW! JournalSearch - search facility for items in online journals
The first two are for members only, but the JournalSearch facility is available to all users of this website.
Incidentally, the link to the page on Membership Benefits has moved since the Journal was put together; you will now find this page within the "Guild" section. (6th April 2009)
"New look" applied to the website, together with substantially extended information on both The Guild and on One-Name Studies. (29th March 2009)
The Guild of One-Name Studies
Box G, 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA
E-mail:
: Telephone: 0800 011 2182
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Registered Charity in England & Wales No. 802048
President: Derek Palgrave
Chairman:
© Guild of One Name Studies
2010
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