Featherstone One-Name Study – Recording Available Now Posted 23 August 2022 by Julie GoucherAs part of our Spotlight on Series, we heard from W. Paul Featherstone, who spoke about the Featherstone One-Name Study. During the presentation Paul shared how and why he started the study, what he did first, how the study progressed. where the study is now and the status of the study now. About the Speaker Paul Featherstone, Paul has been a Guild member since 1996 when he joined and registered the surnames of Featherstone and Featherstonehaugh and the variants of both surnames. Since then he has developed quite a significant database for his studies. He serves as a Regional Rep for the North Yorkshire region and took over as the Team Leader for the Members’ Website Program in the early part of 2016. Working with the other Yorkshire regions, Paul regularly takes part in the twice yearly, full day regional meetings that take place in the County. At the AGM in 2016 he became a Trustee and Committee member and since then, he has worked and volunteered tirelessly for the Guild. Firstly, he became the Events Manager and was pivotal in the relocation of the Guild store from the south east to the north east of England. He has subsequently sat on the Marketing team and was one of a trio who organised the 2018 Yorkshire conference. As if that was not enough, he organised the digitisation of the archive material in the Guild store and then in the Summer of 2018, became Chairman, a post Paul held until June 2022. Paul was awarded the Master Craftsman Award during the Guild’s first Virtual AGM in 2020. The webinar took place on: 17 August 2022 at 7.30pm British Summer Time (BST).
Una Smith says 23 August 2022 at 7:11 pm Very nice, Paul. While listening I idly looked up Fetherston (exact spelling) in FamilySearch. So, as of August 2022: 21,225 historical records in about 500 collections and 3561 profiles in Family Tree.