The world’s leading publication for one-namers ournal Jof One-Name Studies Results of Ideas & Images 2013 Competition Guild Membership Survey 2013 Vol 11 Issue 9 January—March 2014 Vol James Vayro — The Australian Guild WWI Centenary Website Emigrant Marriage Indexes Populous Single-Origin Families The Guild Mentors Scheme A One-Name Study in a Week? The Guild Wants You! Estall: An Obvious Surname? The Society Research Booklet Colonial Records Seminar at The National Archives Reports & Pictures And Much More All the latest Guild news and updates CHAIRMAN Kirsty Gray 3 Wintergreen Box G, 14 Charterhouse Buildings Chilvester Park Guild information Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA Calne, Wiltshire Tel: 0800 011 2182 (UK) SN11 0RS Tel: 1-800 647 4100 (North America) 01249 821999 Tel: 1800 305 184 (Australia) [email protected] Regional Representatives The Guild has Regional Reps in Email: [email protected] VICE CHAIRMAN many areas. 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Plant & Professor Richard E. Plant 17 A One-Name Study in a Week? by Paul Ryley 18 Estall: An Obvious Surname? by Kim Baldacchino 21 The Society Research Booklet by Michael Stonehewer 25 Inter Member Matching Exercise for Marriages 1837-1911 by Robert Fowler GUILD REPORTS - NEWS - EVENTS Guild Membership Survey 2013 7 Highlights of Results by Bob Cumberbatch and Karen Bailey 10 Our Ideas & Images 2013 Competition by Tessa Keough 16 John Richard Moore FSG, MCG (1929-2013) by Derek Palgrave and Pauline Litton 23 Rockstar Genealogists: Who Do You Think They Are? 23 SAFHS 25th Anniversary Conference and Family History Fair 24 WW1 Centenary Website by Colin Spencer 26 The BMD Vault Project to go live by Cliff Kemball 26 Marriage Indexes by Anne Shankland 28 The Guild Mentors Scheme — Here to Help by Stephen Daglish 28 Volunteers Required — Who Do You Think You Are Live by Stuart Pask 29 Review of the Guild’s Lookups Facility by Cliff Kemball and Kim Baldacchino 29 Paypal Costs for 2014 Conference by Cliff Kemball 30 The Guild Wants You by Cliff Kemball 32 Members, Studies ... and a Few Complaints by Stephen Daglish 33 Colonial Records Seminar by John Pask 35 Forthcoming Seminars REGULARS 4 From The Chairman’s Keyboard by Kirsty Gray 5 Marriage Challenge Update — Are You Missing Out? by Peter Copsey 6 Surnames and DNA by Susan C. Meates ARTICLES, letters and other contributions are welcomed from members, especially accompanied by illustrations, and should be sent to the Editor. Publication dates will normally be the first day of January, April, July and October. Copyright of the material is to the Editor and Publishers of the Journal of One-Name Studies and the author. No material may be reproduced in part or in whole without the prior permission of the publishers. The views expressed in the Journal are those of individual contributors and are not necessarily those of the committee of the Guild of One-Name Studies. The distribution list for this Journal is based on the information held in the Guild database on the first of the month preceding the issue date. From the Chairman’s Keyboard... By Kirsty Gray h, how the years fly by! It is amazing to consider Further information about both awards can be located in the that this time ten years ago, I turned up at my first Information section of the Members’ Room www.one-name. OCommittee meeting in November 2003 and the org/members/Information.html. The closing date for both only person who is still on the team from back then is Roy Master Craftsman of the Guild, and Guild Award of Excellence Rayment, Front Office Manager and Librarian. The world of is no later than Wednesday 12th February 2014. family history has progressed enormously since 2003 — gone are the days when the Society of Genealogists held an annual Whilst writing this column, it was with great sadness that we event at the Royal Horticultural Halls and who would have received notification of the passing ofRichard Moore, a Vice thought that there would be a series on television (in many President of the Guild. A stalwart supporter of family history countries across the world) about tracing your ancestry? events in general, Richard rarely missed a Guild seminar or AGM/Conference weekends, and in recent months attended Despite many changes over the last decade, one thing has not both the Exodus Conference and the Oxfordshire Family changed: to run the Guild effectively requires volunteers. History Society Open Day, departing with the words, “See Not just the ‘day-to-day’ tasks but the projects, liaison you in Kent at the Guild AGM”. Richard will be affectionately roles, representatives and so on. The bigger the ideas, the remembered by all who knew him. more people we need to carry them out. You cannot have made it through the last quarter of the year Several Committee members will be hanging up their boots without noticing the Guild Ideas and Images Competition. this year and when Roy stands down after fifteen years on A simply outstanding effort from Guild members saw 187 the Committee, Cliff Kemball and I will be (a) the longest entries in the four categories. Not only that, the thirty two standing Committee members and (b) the only two people shortlisted entries received almost 800 votes. The winners in who have been voted in by the membership. The posts which each category were: are known to be coming vacant in April, or are currently vacant, are listed on the ‘Situations Vacant’ page in the Category 1 – Tagline Self Service area of the Members’ Room. Many are not posts Marie Byatt – “Bringing the world together, which require Committee membership so please consider if one surname at a time” you are in a position to give something back to the Guild. Category 2 – Images The Guild Committee has recently approved individual Jennie Fairs – Moreton Fig Tree budgets for Guild promotion in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Willing volunteers are needed to take on Category 3 – Ideas the role of National Guild Representative in these areas, to Marie Byatt - LAFS develop strategies for improving awareness in their country of the Guild as an organisation and of our members’ studies. Category 4 – Concept Penny Denby – Guild Logo At this time of year, we also take the opportunity to reflect .. and consider those Guild members who are worthy of greater Added Category - Recognition of Achievement recognition for their work. This can be in many guises with Rhys Judges, whose entries were shortlisted two annual awards: in several of the categories (a) Master Craftsman of the Guild (MCG) — to recognise More information is available on page 10. If you would like those Guild members considered especially worthy to see the winning entries, visit the Guild Website (www. of honour, either because of their level of expertise one-name.org/competition2013/) and/or watch the video in genealogy and one-name studies, or for their which has been posted in the Guild’s YouTube Channel. We contribution to the running of the Guild (or both) will be using these winning entries and many of the runners- (b) the Guild Award of Excellence (GAoE), acknowledging up in future to promote the Guild.