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The Howes One-Name Study – Don’t be put off by the size! – Recording available

Posted 16 September 2022 by Julie Goucher

Paul Howes

In this webinar, we welcomed Paul Howes, MCG, founder of the Howes One-Name Study, which includes all plural-sounding homophones, such as Howse, House, Hows, Howis, Houze, Howze, and so on,

Paul and his cousin, Ian Howes, started this study 14 years ago. They went live on the
internet in October 2008 with only 5,000 people in their database. Now they are closing in on
200,000 people, almost all in reconstructed families!

Lesson 1: don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good!
Why did they go online so early? Has it paid off?
What else have they learned?
Why do they have such a simple approach to sourcing?
How do they promote collaboration among Guild members?
To learn the answers to these and other questions, please watch the recording below!

About the Speaker

Paul is a former Chairman of the Guild and has spoken at several annual conferences, at RootsTech in Salt Lake City and London, and at many other venues on either side of the Atlantic. He is currently President of the St Augustine Genealogical Society in America’s oldest city.

The webinar took place on 14 September 2022 at 7.30pm British Summer Time (BST). It was open to both the public and Guild of One-Name Studies members. With the permission of Paul Howes it remains freely available to the public as part of the Guild’s educational charitable remit.

Here are some of the relevant links for the Howes One-Name Study:

  • Howes One-Name Study Profile Page
  • Howes One-Name Study website 
  • Howes One-Name Study mirror website hosted by the Guild of One-Name Studies Members’ Website Project 
  • Paul mentioned the use of Family Historian software and his One-Name study. You can see the presentation that Paul gave to the Guild of One-Name Studies software series – https://one-name.org/family-history-software-for-your-one-name-study-seminar/

 

Comments

  1. Sally Mellick says

    26 September 2022 at 6:04 am

    Helpful to hear someone else’s experience and pitfalls. This is very useful for those in early stages who have not yet set the methodology and other standards fully. The impact of some of these decisions were useful. it was also useful to go and have a look at the website that had additional useful comments like methodology! many thanks.

  2. Richard ChristmasRichard Christmas says

    26 September 2022 at 9:52 am

    Extremely helpful to newcomers or people who have perhaps got stuck or need some inspiration especially relating to standardization, brilliantly put. Well-presented and understandable. Thank you

  3. Paul HowesPaul Howes says

    28 September 2022 at 2:12 pm

    Thank you for the kind words, folks.

  4. Diana AitchisonDiana Aitchison says

    11 October 2022 at 9:46 pm

    Great presentation and very clearly presented with some great ideas to implement.

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