USA Member Survey – 1 Week Left To Take Our Survey Posted 17 December 2017 by Tessa KeoughA quick reminder that the USA Member Survey will close in one week. To-date we have received 99 responses (we have 363 USA members). If you are a USA member you should have received an email with a link to the Survey in mid-November (a few days after you received our November 2017 Newsletter). If [Click to continue…]
Family History Handbook 2018 Posted 23 November 2017 by Julie GoucherThe Guild is featured on page 25 of the recently published Family History Handbook 2018 which is published by Family Tree Magazine in association with the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS). Also listed is a number of surname specific family history associations and societies. Here is what the Guild Chairman, Paul Howes said about [Click to continue…]
Accidents Will Happen Seminar Posted 17 November 2017 by Alan MoorhouseAbberley Village Hall, Clows Top Road, Abberley, Worcestershire WR6 6AZ 09:30am for 10:00am on Saturday 24th February 2018 Booking is now open for this seminar Accident records and reports are a good source for discovering names and background material for a person in your one-name study. We have gathered some specialists around this field to talk to us about various useful sources. Full programme
ANSTEY: Our True Surname Origin and Shared Medieval Ancestry by Gary Anstey Posted 8 November 2017 by Departed MemberThe Anstey One-Name study was started in about 1905 by my great granduncle Thomas John Edmund Anstey (known as Tom). He produced copious quantities of high quality ‘Anstey’ surname research and we are very fortunate that much of it has survived and remains in the family today, providing an excellent foundation on which to build. In 2014, [Click to continue…]
Publication of One Family, Six Names by John & Ann Hercus Posted 7 November 2017 by Departed MemberFirst, may we introduce ourselves; John and Ann Hercus, Goons members of Christchurch, New Zealand. We have spent the last 30 years, on and off, researching different aspects of our family history. We have earlier self-published two books. The first, in 2000, was “Isabella Hercus, the Sixth Ship”, the story of the 6th ship which [Click to continue…]