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Guild of One-Name Studies

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Announcing the Pennyfather Members’ Website

Posted 6 May 2020 by W Paul Featherstone

“The liberal doth spend his pelfe,
The pennyfather wastes himself.”

Visit the https://pennyfather.one-name.net/ to find out what Dennis Pennyfather has discovered about his surname.

300 sites and what an interesting surname it is!

Posted 30 April 2020 by W Paul Featherstone

After starting out as a pilot project in 2015 the Members’ Websites team is proud to announce the 300th site to go live, https://nickens.one-name.net/.

Follow the fascinating research of Janice Nickens Valdez who discovered that the Nickens families of today are comprised of a mixture of black and white people who share a common origin.

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Webinar: The Future is Still in the Past: An Introduction to Online Parish Clerks in the United Kingdom

Posted 29 April 2020 by Julie Goucher

Guild member, Wayne Shepheard is delivering a webinar on 1st May to Legacy Family Tree Webinars. This is likely to be of interest to those who are researching in England and Wales, and provides an insight into the processes of the Online Parish Clerks and why this voluntary effort is an asset to the genealogical [Click to continue…]

Introducing the Jopling MWP site

Posted 29 April 2020 by W Paul Featherstone

We are very fortunate that the late Ruth Jopling made arrangements to have her extensive research on the Jopling surname preserved at http://jopling.one-name.net/. Ruth researched this name across many countries, capturing her research in a book and providing access to a variety of record indexes on her website.

Interested in the Dowling Surname

Posted 9 March 2020 by W Paul Featherstone

Dowling coat of arms

Site number 290 is now live within the Members’ websites project https://dowling.one-name.net, using Gedsite to give a insight into the surname and variants. There are over 9,000 Dowlings.

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