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All the Latest News of Guild Seminars Vol 9 Issue 5 January–March 2007 Also in this issue... Publishing your one-name study – there may never be a better time than now Great Sheffield Flood of 1864 washed away a family’s aitch The world’s leading publication for one-namers All the latest news of Guild seminars GUILD OFFICERS CHAIRMAN Box G, 14 Charterhouse Buildings Peter Walker Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA 24 Bacons Drive Tel: 0800 011 2182 Cuffley E-mail: [email protected] Hertfordshire Website: www.one-name.org EN6 4DU Registered as a charity in England 01707 873778 Guild information and Wales No. 802048 [email protected] Sales VICE-CHAIRMAN Paul Millington AS well as Guild publications, the President 58 Belmont Street Sales Manager has a supply of Jour- Derek A Palgrave MA FRHistS FSG Worcester nal folders, ties, lapel badges and Worcestershire back issues of the Journal. The Vice-Presidents WR3 8NN address is: Ernest Hamley 01905 745217 John Hebden [email protected] Howard Benbrook Alec Tritton 7 Amber Hill SECRETARY Camberley Kirsty Gray Surrey 11 Brendon Close GU15 1EB Tilehurst, Reading England Berkshire RG30 6EA E-mail enquiries to: Guild Committee 0118 941 4833 [email protected] The Committee consists of the four [email protected] Officers, plus the following: Forum TREASURER Howard Benbrook Cliff Kemball THIS online discussion forum is Rod Clayburn 168 Green Lane open to any member with access to Peter Copsey Chislehurst e-mail. You can join the list by Roger Goacher Kent BR7 6AY sending a message with your mem- Barbara Harvey 0208 467 8865 bership number to: [email protected] Roy Rayment [email protected] Roy Stockdill To e-mail a message to the forum, Ken Toll send it to: Sandra Turner * * * * * * * * * * * * [email protected] Steven Whitaker REGISTRAR Regional Representatives Bookstall & Sales Manager Roger Goacher A LIST of Regional Representatives Howard Benbrook Springwood of the Guild in a number of UK Forum Manager Furzefield Road counties and overseas can be found Sharon Symons East Grinstead on the inside back cover of this Regional Reps Co-ordinator W Sussex RH19 2EF Journal. If you are interested in Sandra Turner 01342 326663 becoming a Regional Rep, please [email protected] Website Manager contact the Regional Representa- Paul Millington tives Co-ordinator, Sandra Turner EDITOR (address and phone number on the Roy Stockdill inside back cover). 6 First Avenue SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRMEN Garston, Watford Executive Peter Walker The Journal of One-Name Studies is Herts WD25 9PZ Marketing Kirsty Gray published quarterly by the Guild of 01923 893735 Seminar Dominic Johnson One-Name Studies and printed by [email protected] Flexpress Ltd, 5 Saxby St, Leicester ISSN 0262-4842 © Journal of One-Name Studies Volume 9 Issue 5 January–March 2007 MAIN ARTICLES 6 If we all waited to publish our one-name study until we felt we had found the ultimate answer, we would probably not publish at all – COVER STORY PETER WALKER asks: “What does it all mean?” with an in-depth look at his own ONS and urges members to think about publishing their studies 14 How the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864 washed away a family’s aitch – COVER STORY STEVE TANNER finds an unusual factor in a surname spelling change 16 I’m not convinced DNA tests are the answer to all our genealogical problems ELSE CHURCHILL questions the value of DNA testing for genealogy GUILD REPORTS • NEWS • EVENTS 17 Celebrating 100 issues of the Journal – how to use your free CD 19 Report on the Hounslow Computer Seminar • Guild Conference latest 20 Treasurer’s Notes • Marriage Challenge update 21 Update on forthcoming Guild seminars 25 Family history embarks on a brave new world with new-look SoG Fair • Marjorie Moore Memorial Lecture • Scottish FHSs to meet in Inverness REGULARS 4 From the Chairman’s keyboard PETER WALKER 22 A View From The Bookstall HOWARD BENBROOK 24 Registrar’s Notes ROGER GOACHER 26 Reviews of new genealogy books and CDs 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 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, and the information in the Register Update, is based on the information held in the Guild database on the first of the month preceding the issue date. 3 Guild Forum debates a controversial topic – should some public data be private? O DOUBT you will recall Ken Toll’s review in the April Journal go beyond the mere collection of about the Surname Profiler website, where you can see data to create information on distributions for many surnames in both 1881 and 1998. You people and families, knowledge may also recall that I had hoped to collaborate with the team of how the name has developed that created the site, so that it might link with names being studied by and an understanding of the pro- Guild members and also allow visitors to add alternative views on the cesses that made this happen. origins of the names. Whether we are any wiser for all But this was an academic our respective names, including this, I’ll leave to others! research project and, sad to say, on living people. But the data Two broad attitudes emerge in there is now no further funding does not relate to our relatives, these debates. On the one side to develop the site, so the ideas I but often to people completely are those who are driven by prin- had are now unlikely to happen. unrelated to us. Not everyone ciples, be it the principle of free As many of you know, a similar will be comfortable with the idea What are the Data Protection Prin- fate has overtaken the wonderful that a complete stranger has so ciples? The Data Protection Act Leicestershire University Historical much information on them. states that anyone who processes Directories website. The site is personal information must comply still there for now, but no further Private or public with eight principles. These state additions are being made. We are A range of views were that information must be: used to the idea of archives hold- expressed and members seem to •Fairly and lawfully processed. ing material for centuries, but have a variety of ways in which •Processed for limited pur- these modern creations seem they choose to keep some data poses. likely to be much more transitory. private and the rest public. Many •Adequate, relevant and not As last quarter, I have noticed felt it was important not to pub- excessive. how some topics frequently reap- lish anything which might relate •Accurate and up to date. pear on the Forum discussions to living people, while others, •Not kept for longer than is and each time seem to generate notably championed by our Edi- necessary. a lot of controversy and passion tor, Roy Stockdill, felt that any •Processed in line with on all sides. This time the issue publicly available data should be individuals’ rights. embraces the linked topics of capable of being published with- •Secure. privacy, data protection and out limitation. •Not transferred to other coun- copyright. The common theme One perspective that perhaps tries without adequate protection. connecting these is data: are peo- wasn’t developed in the debate is “Processing” includes data cap- ples’ vital records private or that the information we hold ture, storage, performing opera- public? Is sharing data on living usually goes beyond the pure tions on it (including combining it people acceptable, even when publicly available facts. When we with other data), retrieval, dis- the data is publicly available? Do link a birth to a marriage and closure, dissemination and you have any rights if people thence to offspring we are cre- erasure. publish your research data on the ating a body of data which has web? Can you “own” this data? greater information than the sum speech, the principle of the right Without doubt, this issue of the parts. I am reminded of to know, the principle of peoples’ affects one-namers far more than the hierarchy of information that right of privacy, or the principle traditional family historians. Data goes something like this: of “publish and be damned”. is the bread and butter of a one- Data > Information > Knowledge On the other side are those name study and we are all > Understanding > Wisdom who seek a definitive truth and encouraged to collect all data on When we study our names we look to an analysis of the law to 4 Journal of One-Name Studies, January–March 2007 provide answers. In their separate I was appalled to find that some of defence, the Information Com- ways, both approaches are my own family ancestry had been missioner has now confirmed that doomed to fail, because neither placed on the IGI, presumably by historic electoral rolls are not takes sufficient notice of the someone who had acquired a covered by the recent changes of human, subjective aspects of the GEDCOM file originating from me. I the law concerning current elec- problem. may have trusted the person I sent toral rolls. What I find acceptable may be it to, but information does have a A related issue is the quite different from someone habit of getting passed on.
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