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Sales VICE-CHAIRMAN Paul Millington AS well as Guild publications, the 58 Belmont St Sales Manager has a supply of Jour- Worcester nal folders, ties, lapel badges and President Worcestershire back issues of the Journal. The Derek A Palgrave MA FRHistS FSG WR3 8NN address is: 01905 745217 Vice-Presidents [email protected] Howard Benbrook Peter Goodall 7 Amber Hill Ernest Hamley SECRETARY Camberley John Hebden Kirsty Maunder Surrey Peter Towey 35 Bexley Court GU15 1EB Reading England Berkshire RG30 2DY E-mail enquiries to: Guild Committee 0118 956 0659 [email protected] The Committee consists of the [email protected] Officers, plus the following: Forum Rob Alexander REGISTRAR THIS online discussion forum is Howard Benbrook Roger Goacher open to any member with access to Jeanne Bunting FSG Springwood e-mail. You can join the list by Rod Clayburn Furzefield Road sending a message with your mem- John Hanson East Grinstead bership number to: Barbara Harvey W Sussex RH19 2EF [email protected] Roy Rayment 01342 326663 To e-mail a message to the forum, Peter Walker [email protected] send it to: [email protected] Librarian TREASURER Sandra Turner Vacant Regional Representatives Regional Reps Co-ordinator 2 St Annes Close Barbara Harvey Winchester A LIST of Regional Representatives Bookstall & Sales Manager Hants SO22 4LQ of the Guild in a number of UK counties and overseas can be found Howard Benbrook 01962 840388 [email protected] on the inside back cover of this Forum Manager Journal. If you are interested in Peter Walker EDITOR becoming a Regional Rep, please Website Manager Roy Stockdill contact the Regional Representa- Paul Millington 6 First Avenue tives Coordinator, Barbara Harvey Publicity Manager Garston, Watford (address and phone number on the Roy Rayment Herts WD25 9PZ inside back cover). Data Processing Manager 01923 893735/6 John Hanson [email protected] The Journal of One-Name Studies is published quarterly by the Guild of SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRMEN One-Name Studies. Executive Ken Toll ISSN 0262-4842 Publications Roy Stockdill © Journal of One-Name Studies Seminars Jeanne Bunting FSG MAIN ARTICLES 6 One-Name Studies Without A Computer – COVER STORY Four Guild members tell why they prefer the old-fashioned, pen and paper methods By MARGARET SPELLER • HENRY CHRISTMAS • SYDNEY SMITH • KAREN TAYLER 10 Intelligent searching of 1837online – COVER STORY Getting the best out of the BMD website by PETER WALKER 12 Why the Guild has changed its e-mail system to defeat spam and viruses JOHN HANSON on our new ISP and e-mail arrangements GUILD REPORTS • NEWS • EVENTS 14 Pool, red wine and some fine lectures make 25th birthday Conference a success – COVER STORY ROGER BRUTON reviews the anniversary celebrations at Wyboston Lakes • Plus a two-page centre spread of colour pictures from the Conference 19 Guild DNA Seminar at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum proves one of most popular ever 20 Computer Seminar to be run again in Nottingham 21 Other seminar news • Results of Guild Awards for One-Name Periodicals 22 The Guild Forum – a valuable resource on your desktop Forum Manager PETER WALKER on why you should join the Guild’s own e-mail list 26 WARP – the Guild’s new service to members to help beat computer security threats REGULARS 4 Chairman’s Notes KEN TOLL 5 Just My Opinion ROY STOCKDILL 24 A View From The Bookstall HOWARD BENBROOK 25 Registrar’s Notes ROGER GOACHER 27 Reviews of new genealogy books 29 Letters – Your views on issues in the one-name world

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3 Everybody enjoyed our 25th birthday conference at Wyboston Lakes, so we’re going again next year! veryone appeared to Howard Benbrook – Bookstall quickly and many of you will enjoy our 25th birthday and Sales Manager probably have missed it. This Conference and the let- We have also co-opted Rod leads to two actions: ters and e-mails I sub- Clayburn onto the Committee. The first is to set up a Guild sequently received tend to He has agreed to take on the Newsflash facility, so we can confirm this. A report on the role of Renewals Secretary. communicate important infor- event at Wyboston Lakes in Our thanks go to Geoff Riggs, mation to members quickly. The Bedfordshire appears elsewhere who stands down after almost Committee have given approval in this Journal. seven years service on the Com- to set this up and I hope to be I’d like to take credit for it, mittee. Geoff is now Director able to announce something but unfortunately I can’t! Con- and Chairman of the Federation soon. Are there any volunteers gratulations and thanks are of Family History Societies Publi- out there able to assist in setting entirely due to Roger Goacher cations Company and we wish up and running such a facility? and his team of organisers. The him well in his new role. The second is to arrange per- venue, in particular, was excel- Paul Millington used the iodic access to online data for lent and reasonably well placed AGM to launch his Guild Archive members. I am currently check- for access. Consequently, we are Project (see page 16 and subse- ing with the Charity Commission planning to hold next year’s quent pages in the previous to ensure that it is an allowable Conference, there too – so Journal). Initial take-up of the use of Guild funds. please put Friday April 1 to facility has been slower than Sunday April 3 2005 in your expected, but more studies are Genes Reunited diaries now. being added as members get I have recently revisited the their data ready to upload. Genes Reunited website at New Committee Mary Rix’s Guild Marriage www.genesreunited.com (part Again, there were insufficient Index is now online in the Mem- of the Friends Reunited group). I nominations of members to join ber’s Room on our website. I was amazed to see how many the Committee to require an was surprised and delighted to people were now researching election. The new Committee, find an entry for my name. It my registered name. therefore, comprises: added a spouse whose details I About 15 individuals Ken Toll – Chairman had not yet found. accounted for the 130 or so Paul Millington – Vice-Chair- I will be adding my marriages, entries for my name and I have man and Webmaster once I can get a few days clear been able to help most of them. Sandra Turner – Treasurer and to check the details and add the Many have also contributed 2005 Conference Organiser GRO references for the females data that I was not previously Kirsty Maunder – Secretary prior to 1890, which I foolishly aware of. Roger Goacher – Registrar neglected to record when I I was, however, rather sur- Roy Stockdill – Editor started my one-name study. prised they had not already Barbara Harvey – Regional discovered there was a one- Representatives Co-ordinator Newsflash name study for Toll in existence. Jeanne Bunting – Seminar Committee member Rob Hopefully, this lack of Sub-Committee Chairman Alexander negotiated Guild knowledge about the Guild in John Hanson – Data Process- members a month’s free access some quarters is something we ing Manager to the Thompson Gale index and can address in the coming Rob Alexander images of the Times Newspaper. months. Our Publicity Manager, Peter Walker – Forum It was announced on the Roy Rayment, is already Manager Guild Forum, but, unfortunately, targeting county libraries with Roy Rayment – Publicity we do not yet have a mechan- details of the Guild, our Register Manager ism to contact all members and our website. ❍

4 Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 Can SKS (that’s Some Kind Sucker) please do my family tree for me? MONG the various how ridiculous his question was – regularly, prompting me to “hats” I wear in the and how it would take a team of wonder whether the perpetrators genealogical world, I genealogists the size of the have ever read a book on have for the last few theoretical infinite number of genealogy or have the remotest months had a close involvement monkeys, who might in an idea of how to go about with the Second Edition of the infinite amount of time repro- researching their family history. National Burial Index, which is duce the works of Shakespeare, Silly me! Of course they due to be released in late August to research the origins of more haven’t. at the Federation of Family than 13 million people (the num- Indeed, they almost certainly History Societies’ 30th Anniver- ber that will be on the new NBI) think: why should they? For sary Conference at Loughbor- and link their birth dates and aren’t all the answers out there in ough, Leicestershire, and then go women’s maiden names to the cyberspace, just waiting to be on general sale on September 1. burial entries! tapped into and downloaded? As part of my duties on the NBI However, it did set me wonder- And if not, there is always SKS Committee, I am responsible for ing as to what sort of genealogist (Some Kind Sucker, in my book) handling publicity – a duty I he could possibly be to ask such a who will provide instant answers. acquired as something to do with question and what thought pro- Am I alone in despairing at this my previous incarnation in the cesses were going on in his head. new breed of Internet wannabe newspaper world, I expect – and I The answer, presumably, is that family historians who think it’s all issued a press release back in he was a rank beginner, a total so easy? Every time I post a mes- April. This went not only to the novice with not a clue about how sage suggesting they might like general and family history media, to research or about the nature to do a bit of homework for but also to many Internet Roots- of records and indexes. themselves, or at least read a web mailing lists. book or two before they start As a result, I received some Expectations doing their family tree, I am inun- interesting e-mail enquiries about It also set me pondering on the dated with rude responses telling the NBI, some eminently sensible bizarre expectations and fan- me I am arrogant and patronising and straight-forward, others not tasies that newcomers to to newbies. quite so. However, none were genealogy and family history Well, maybe I am but with more extraordinary than the one seem to have these days. good reason, I think. Is it really so from a gentleman in America, I expect you’ve all heard the unreasonable to expect new- who asked me, quite seriously, if apocryphal story – at least, I think comers to genealogy at least to the Second Edition would include it must be apocryphal – of the make an effort to learn the as well as entries for burials... woman who supposedly arrives at basics? Would they sit an exam in • The birth dates of all those the Society of Genealogists advanced mathematics before buried. library, rushes inside and they’ve mastered their two-times • The maiden names of mar- demands to be given her family table? Would they try and drive a ried women who were buried. tree, exclaiming: “And be quick Formula 1 racing car when they Well, what on earth do you say about it, I’ve got a taxi waiting!” haven’t learned to ride a bicycle? to a query like that? Not wishing However, the Internet equiva- I genuinely fear for the future to lose a potential sale, I was lent of that tale is to be found of family history when I see some tempted to e-mail him back and daily on many of the genealogy of the examples of incredible say that of course it would mailing lists, where what I call ignorance being perpetrated include these features! However, the “look up culture” is not only daily on the Internet. What kind discretion and a pending sense of thriving but achieving horren- of trees do some of these people guilt at being so utterly mislead- dous proportions. end up with? Who can believe a ing – not to mention downright Messages of the “Can SKS look word of their researches? lying – fortunately dissuaded me up my great-great-grandfather And what can we one-namers, from doing so. John Smith, believed born some- as the supposed “creme de la I desisted also from the where in Yorkshire, in the 1861 creme” of genealogy, do about temptation to explain to him census?” variety are witnessed it? ❍

Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 5 Pen and paper records never crash and never pick up a virus! AM WRITING in support of non- get rid of viruses. E-mail is admittedly computer-using one-namers, very quick, but this can be a disadvan- even though I am something of tage when time is limited, as there is an a hybrid myself. I do have a expectation of a speedy reply. computer (well three, actually, includ- So how do I run my manual one- ing a Commodore 64 in a box at the name study? I have lots of ring binders back of a cupboard) but I still keep my for various types of information, e.g. POOK One-Name Study manually. marriage index, wills index, deaths Why do this when I have so much index, telephone index, IGI printouts, computer power available? Firstly – and censuses, miscellaneous data, etc. By MARGARET crucially – I have never found the time Most of these are sorted alphabeti- SPILLER to input all my records on to either of cally according to county, using paper my two modern computers. I work all slips, and typed. I have a box file for all week, with a lengthy commute, and the BMD information I transcribed into the task has always seemed too daunt- notebooks from the records at St. IN the Journals of ing at weekends, Catherine’s House when they were held October–December Computers are not always reliable there. I also have a card index box with 2003 and April–June and I have had my share of problems. I the names and addresses of all the 2004, we invited Guild managed to input my own family tree correspondents I have been in contact members who are on my computer running Windows 95 with over the years, with the reference running one-name and it was very useful for a while, as I number for the appropriate family. This studies without the could print out family trees to send to is complemented by three correspon- aid of a computer to correspondents. Then I tried to link to dence files with dividers for each tell us about their the Internet and failed. Following this, researcher for easy retrieval. researches in the old- the printer packed in, so I was back to fashioned way. photocopying manually drawn trees. Numbered trees A number of Later I bought a laptop running I have two files full of numbered members rose to the Windows XP, which I thought would be family trees I have constructed for the challenge and useful for research once I retire. This various Pook families, with an Index submitted articles. linked with the Internet with no and a cross reference to all the Some confess to trouble and I enjoyed using e-mail and researchers of these families. My family owning a computer the web. I was looking forward to trees are manually drawn on blank A4- but still prefer the sending and receiving details of far- sized paper and large families cover manual, pen-and- flung Pook families and I gave a few several sheets, which are cross refer- paper methods! We researchers my e-mail address. This is enced. My numbering system is simple: are pleased to publish where the next problem began: despite distinct families are numbered 1, 2, 3, some of these having protection software, I picked up 4, 5, etc., and separate sheets are num- experiences in order a virus from someone who contacted bered a, b, c, d, e, etc. They are also to demonstrate that me by e-mail and I now have ongoing identified by place names, e.g. Tiverton there is still life in problems with outgoing e-mails. 1, Exeter II or Portsea III. one-name studies Manually kept records are always When I receive an enquiry, I look to without necessarily available; they never crash, pick up see what family trees I have for the being computerised. viruses and are easy to photocopy. The place in question. I can usually attach We will publish postal service always works, albeit the enquirer to one of my family trees more in the next issue slowly. Apart from the cost of postage, quite quickly and then find if others (October–December). manual records are much cheaper to are researching the same family. keep and use: just a pen, paper, some However, if the information received ring binders and a typewriter. is sparse, I may have to request further Without a computer, there is no information. I am frequently able to need to pay for expensive computer give enquirers details of other people equipment and supplies, no Internet researching the same family tree, which Service Provider to pay a monthly sub- is one of the major ways in which a scription to and no costly servicing to one-name study benefits others. The

6 Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 advantage of manually drawn trees is that single I have not completely given up on my computers sheets can easily be redrawn or added to when fresh and have decided that I really must have a go at the information comes in. I can also add any informa- 1901 census, now that it seems to be running tion I like, e.g. the existence of a will or an smoothly. But if and when I shall input the whole occupation, and put it exactly where I want it for study onto a computer waits to be seen. It is more easy referral. Other information and photographs likely that, when I get a new printer, I will put my relating to the family can be filed alongside the Indexes on the word processor (for easy updating) appropriate tree. and print them out. Computer technology is fine when it works but a Manual indexing nightmare when it goes wrong. For reliability, give So, in my opinion, it is quite possible to success- me pen and paper every time! ❍ fully run a one-name study without a computer. Manual indexing systems work perfectly well, Margaret Spiller providing they are well thought out, and can be Member 1204 tailored to individual taste. They are always reliable 29 Gainsborough Court and do not take up that much space, unless you are Station Avenue researching Smith or Jones! Information from the Walton-on-Thames Internet can be obtained by using Internet Cafes or Surrey KT12 1NH any organization with access available to the public. POOK One-Name Study My manual method is easier for finding people than a computer By Henry Christmas

GOT INVOLVED with genealogy when my families under their parishes on county sheets, using grandfather died in 1954 and left me his the backs of used continuous computer printout diaries and the family tree going back three paper. These sheets catered for two centuries and generations. This aroused my interest. I were quite large. All were placed in a county folder. joined a family history society and found the Mor- As I assembled each family, I recorded the marri- mon IGI microfiche records. age of the parents in a record book and gave them I then decided I would like to learn more about a reference number. Hence, a marriage of Robert the CHRISTMAS surname. In one of the family Christmas and Martha Cope at Cholsey would be history magazines, I noticed a reader was interested shown on the parish sheet for Cholsey (BRK18A) as in the name in Surrey. As my grandfather came from Family No 893, and in the family register under 893, Surrey, I wrote to her and found that she was the as Robert 1768 BRK 18A. wife of a distant cousin of mine; also that she had a I thought when I started that “There can’t be family tree compiled by J. A. Reeves of Salisbury, many Christmasses about”. How wrong this proved which went back another nine generations in to be! I extracted over 2,000 births from the IGI and Hampshire. I was really hooked now! about 2,000 marriages. This covered the period from In 1975 Brian Christmas of Maidstone contacted early 1500 to 1837. I later found the IGI is not me. He was doing a one-name study of the comprehensive in its coverage. When I researched Christmas name and we became partners in the Cambridgeshire, I was able to record 630 births from venture. I was interested in trying to connect fam- the registers for the period 1550–1837, but the IGI ilies; he was more interested in archive records with only had 300. So there is still a lot of work to do. a Christmas flavour. Together we made a good I recorded all the births and marriages combination. Via a contact of Brian’s, I received chronologically on sheets in ring binders. With printouts of the IGI for most of the Home Counties. hindsight, perhaps I should have used a card index I listed all the names under their respective system, because I could not easily add additional parishes and I was then able to assemble the names to the list in the correct place. As each family individual families, or most of them. It was astonish- was recorded in the family register, I entered the ing how these families could be connected together, family number in the births and marriage lists. using the respective dates. The families were then I stayed with Brian in Maidstone several times recorded on parish sheets, which were given letters and went into London to St. Catherine’s House. indicating the county (e.g. BRK), a number for the Here, I extracted 7,000 births and 6,300 marriages century, (16,17,18, or 19) and a letter for the parish from 1837 to 1982. I continued to enter them onto (a, b, c, etc.). Therefore, for Cholsey in Berkshire my parish sheets and then county sheets. From the 1800 the sheet would be BRK18A. I then showed the parish registers, a birth usually gave the father’s and

Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 7 mother’s name and later the maiden name of the immediately if there is a census record by the mother. I used these to assemble the families. When coloured strokes by the side of the name. I can I used the lists from the General Register Office, only follow the lineage by looking at the county sheet the father’s name was given up to 1911, so I was and see the connections backwards and forwards. foiled. The only thing I could do was to record these This takes no more than about two minutes and I births under their respective registration districts on still prefer my manual method for finding a person. the county sheets. The 1881 census returns helped in It takes me so much longer to start my computer recovering some of these names back into families. and then find the relevant file. I have much more All this took several years. I then received details information on my parish sheets at a glance. I have of the 1851 census returns from contacts, also a been able to produce 29 different Christmas family complete listing of the 1881 census. I recorded these trees so far and I have no doubt some of these will on the parish and county sheets as a coloured dash eventually amalgamate. by the particular name, with a different colour for I now have a computer – shock, horror! – and am each census, i.e. 1841 brown, 1851 green, 1861 slowly getting all my records onto disk for poster- mauve, 1881 blue, etc. ity. I admit the computer makes it easier to record I now have a typed list of births, marriages and new births, etc., in my lists, but I have no doubt a deaths in ring binders, with a family number against card index system would cope just as well for those most of the entries. When I receive a query regard- without a computer. ❍ ing a particular person, with a birth date or marriage date, I look in the register and hopefully HENRY CHRISTMAS find him/her. This gives me the family number. I look Member 4073 in the family register and this gives me the county 32 Sandygate Avenue and sheet number. I look in the sheet number and, Shrewsbury hey presto, there is the family! I can also add addi- Shropshire SY2 6TF tional information on the parish sheet. I can tell [email protected]

brothers died, grandfather Salvin was asked by his Researching a daughter, Frances Clarke née Salvin, if he and his medieval family wife would take over Henrietta’s education and wellbeing. She became their ward and, after his without a wife’s death in 1915, David’s part-time housekeeper. Henrietta married in 1904 and I was born in 1910, computer so my own life overlapped that of my great-grand- By Sydney Smith father by some nine years. In my most formative years I was regaled with family folklore, most of At 93, SYDNEY SMITH must surely be the Guild’s which I took little notice of at the time but must oldest member. He has been working on a one- have retained sub-consciously. When he died, David name study and his family history, entirely left my mother his artefacts, documents and num- without a computer, since 1975. He has carried erous memorabilia, and when she died in 1979 she out his researches largely from within the walls of left these and her own extensive reminiscences to his retirement bungalow, where he is confined by me. After retirement, I brought them out of storage. age-related infirmity. He sent this account of his Family history had become a popular hobby and work on the rare surname of SALVIN. as our local library had the Dictionary of National HE name SALVIN, according to the historian Biography, with extensive references to early Salvins Surtees, Thoroton’s History of Nottingham- and a bibliography for further reference, I decided shire and others, derives from “Silvan”, a to try and collate the references left to me, which medieval timber castle in a heavily wooded went back to the early 1600s, with those of earlier area on the Nottinghamshire-Yorkshire border, near date. This ultimately enabled me to write a history the villages of Cuckney and Thorpe Salvin. of the Salvins with the title A Family History from It was the name of my mother’s grandparents. Domesday to Millennium, copies of which are in the Her family history is well documented and was also libraries of the Society of Genealogists, Nottingham- handed down through male inheritance long before shire Record Office and the Nottinghamshire Family I was born. It was passed on to me by my great- History Society, and with members of the family grandfather, David Salvin (1830–1919), a master who assisted my research. builder and rural architect. He could vouch for a I was unable to visit record offices, due to being long line of male descents through vast knowledge housebound, and the only electronic aids I had were of the family folklore and, although in his own era a Smith Corona typewriter and a basic photocopier. without the documentary resources we enjoy today, However, I corresponded with archivists, including: he knew of the family’s medieval origins. • The County Durham Record Office, who have My mother, Henrietta Salvin Clarke, was born in the Salvin family papers from the 1300s to the Liverpool in 1883. After her father and two elder 1800s, deposited by the Croxdale branch of the

8 Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 family resident at Croxdale Hall, Sunderland Bridge, member of the present-day Salvin family, who still Co. Durham, from 1402 to the present day. hold Croxdale Hall. • Oxford University, concerning the Victorian They sent me a copy of their family tree from architect Anthony Salvin (1799–1881), who was the 1402, with a plan of the estate and a photocopy of a ninth Salvin to hold that forename and whose many two-part article in Country Life magazine in 1939. works included Salvin’s Tower at Balliol College. For a hefty fee, I also acquired copies of the Salvin It was due to a split in the two main branches of papers, which turned out to be a treasure trove of the Nottinghamshire-Yorkshire Salvins that Gerard early Rolls, parchments, certificates, appointments, Salvin, eighth of that forename, married an heiress, recusants – the northern Salvins were Catholics – Agnes of Croxdale, and left Nottinghamshire to from medieval times to the 19th century. manage his wife’s estates, taking most of the Salvin And I still have no idea what a floppy disk is! ❍ medieval records with him. Having spent much time collecting and collating SYDNEY SMITH all available information, on impulse I rang Durham Member 2354 City Library to enquire if they knew anything of 93 Coniston Avenue Lady Agnes. They told me about the Salvin papers at Knott End on Sea the county record office. I also contacted the tourist Poulton Le Fylde information centre, who passed my letter to a Lancashire FY6 0DR

catalogue cards, but I found these too small to put Fifty ring binders much information on, so I decided on 6 x 4-inch and 9,800 record cards, writing on both sides in pencil so that I can amend the details as necessary. cards in my ONS On the front, the forenames are at the top left, underlined if the person made a will. If I do not By Karen Taylor know the date of birth, then the card is filed under I DO use a computer now but I the marriage or death date. All the “undated” cards didn’t when I started my PATTEN- for Albert are filed in front of the Alberts with birth DEN One-Name Study 20 years ago. My filing dates. The birth date is in the centre of the card system has not changed since then but the number with the surname and family tree page number on of ring binders has grown to 50. I started with one the right if I have drawn an A4 or A3 family tree for binder with dividers for censuses, parish registers, this branch of the family. If the page number has a references and miscellaneous, including maps, into circle around it, then the individual is a member of which I filed the information transcribed from: my main or largest family tree. • Censuses – alphabetically by parish and by year. On the left-hand side of the card is marked: • Parish Registers – alphabetically by parish. • C for christening date and place, with room for • References – any other information on num- birth date and place. bered pages, starting from 1, with an index. • M for marriage date/s and places. • Miscellaneous and maps – any general family • P for parents’ names and year of birth. history data that didn’t mention my registered • S for spouses’ names and year of birth. surname. • C for children’s names, year and place of birth. As I accumulated more data, it was obvious that The back of the card contains a chronological list my name was centred around Kent and Sussex, so I of all the records in which this individual is men- expanded my system into colour-coded ring binders: tioned, with codes like PRC (parish register red for Kent, blue for Sussex and yellow for Other christening), PRM (parish register marriage), IGIC (IGI Areas. I now have six red Kent ring binders, one for christening), IGIM (IGI marriage) Kent 36 (Kent censuses, one for parish registers, one for miscel- References Page 36) and the names of correspon- laneous and maps and three for references. If I build dents, so I can refer back to the original material in up a large collection of references on one subject, the ring binders and to correspondence in the filing these are moved into their own file or files, e.g. cabinet. Directories, Photographs, Foreign, Wills (3 green I have indexes of other surnames in surname files), and BMD certificates (2 orange files). order and male marriages, so I can look up and find I have a whole filing cabinet of correspondence, how many Albert and Janes I have and when they filed by name. The files mentioned above contain were having children. ❍ the background information from which I make up record cards containing details of individual people KAREN TAYLER who have used the surname, Pattenden, at some Member 1001 time in their life. I have 9,800 of these, filed 56 Yew Tree Road alphabetically under filenames, so that all the Ann, Southborough Anne, Anna and Hannah are filed in one sequence. Tunbridge Wells Working in a library, I was used to 5 x 3-inch Kent TN4 0BN

Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 9 Intelligent searching of 1837online and how to get the best out of the site By Peter Walker

HE 1837online website HOLLYER and HOLYER. This, too, brings up multiple www.1837online.com can pages – not because HOL covers a very common be very useful to one- surname, but because there are so many medium- namers, even if, like me, frequency names that start with HOL. In fact, the you completed your BMD collec- most common HOL name is HOLMES, which is only tion before it came online. the 87th most common name today (or 85th as However, it remains a useful check recorded in the 1881 census). – for example, when the FreeBMD In order to pick the right page as quickly as website of General Register Office possible, what one-namers need to know is where indexes disagrees with what you’ve collected. their surname appears in the BMD indexes with As most of you who have used 1837online will respect to all the other surnames sharing the same already know, you navigate to the relevant page(s) three-letter combination. This is where I found Steve (before 1984) by using the first three letters of the Archer’s Surname Atlas software useful. Since it surname required. In the case of some unusual shows the number of appearances of all surnames in surnames, such as IDIENS, my great-great grand- the 1881 census, it would allow one to answer this mother’s surname, only a single page will be shown question. for each search, or two if you are unlucky and the three-letter combination happens to span two Simplifying pages. However, for very common names many This is not what the software was intended for, pages will be shown and it can be expensive to and you can’t get at the underlying data to pull it browse through until you find the right entry. into a spreadsheet and quickly do the sums. To my It will be no surprise to find that the combina- dismay, I found there were 1,618 surnames begin- tions BAR, BRO, DAV, GRE, HAR, JON, ROB, SMI, ning with HOL recorded in the 1881 census index, THO, WHI, WIL and WOO all bring up multiple from HOL through to HOLZMAN. A little simplifi- pages every time. While few one-namers pick the cation was, therefore, needed. very common names that dominate these letters, I transcribed manually the 102 HOL surnames you are unlucky if your chosen name shares these which had 100 or more appearances, starting with combinations! HOLBORN and finishing with HOLYOAKE. I made In my case, I am studying the names HOLLIER, the assumption that the very large numbers for the more common surnames would dominate the sequence. In any event, complete accuracy would be a waste of time, as some variation will always occur from one quarter to the next and, of course, each three-letter combina- tion will start and finish in the middle of a page. The list of more frequent HOL names included my own names of Hollier (596) and Hollyer (105) but not the rarer Kent variant Holyer (73). However, I noted where these occurred with respect to the rest and calculated where these three names fell in the total of 175,046 appearances of these 102 The opening screen of the 1837online.com website surnames. I finally con-

10 Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 A search for births for surnames beginning with HOL in a typical quarter produces six pages to view cluded that the three names should be found as tered with the Guild), you might like to know that follows: the 16 most common surnames are: Holmes 36,491 • Hollier 42% • Hollyer 58% Holland 21,340 • Holyer 99% Holt 20,077 Holden 16,421 The percentage figure expresses where the Holloway 9,155 beginning of the name should lie in any sequence of pages. So if the HOLs span six pages, Hollier should Holdsworth 5,044 be found on page three (0.42 x 6 = 2.52), Hollyer on Holman 4,246 page four and Holyer on page six. Well, that’s the Hollis 4,142 theory! Holder 4,039 Minimise browsing Holliday 3,927 In practice, it may be out by one page, but should Holroyd 3,337 minimise the wasted and expensive browsing from Holding 2,650 the beginning. As mentioned above, a big source of Hole 2,567 inaccuracy is caused by where the combination starts and ends. A typical browse through 1837online for Holgate 2,486 HOL brings up something like this:- Hollingworth 2,418 Holbrook 2,157 • HOD-HOL 1 page • HOL-HOL 7 pages I note that two of these names, with their other • HOL-HOM 1 page variants, are Guild-registered – rather you than me! So, if you suffer from the multiple page problem, However, the method works quite well and in I hope this article has shown you how to improve most cases will only be one page out. your chances of getting the right 1837online page What else did I learn? Well, of the 175,046 the first time. ❍ appearances that were used, some 80 per cent are due to the 16 most common surnames that each has PETER WALKER over 2,000 appearances in Surname Atlas. This Member 2941 suggests that the approximation to ignore those 24 Bacons Drive names with less than 100 appearances was probably Cuffley OK. For those with a particular interest in HOL Hertfordshire EN6 4DU names (some 45 HOL surnames are currently regis- [email protected]

Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 11 Why the Guild has changed e-mail system to defeat spam and viruses By John Hanson

any of you will by one chosen was Internetters, an up a bulk e-mail facility in the now have seen established UK-based company future but that stands as much changes to your e- that provided all that was chance of the one-name.org mails that arrive via required, including 500 mega- domain being classed as a spam- your one-name.org address. If Bytes of disc space. mer in its own right, which is the you haven’t, then you are one of As part of this deal, they also one thing that the Guild wishes the lucky ones who never seems host the Guild e-mail alias service to avoid! to get spam or viruses via your e- that directs [email protected] mail! to your regular e-mail address. Blocking These changes started at the For a very modest sum, Internet- Let me explain how the virus end of March when the Guild ters were able to offer us a spam blocking and spam filtering ser- changed its Internet Service Pro- filtering and virus blocking ser- vice works. If Internetters detect vider (ISP). Unfortunately, the vice on mail sent to one- a virus, the e-mail is deleted, but timing of the decision to change name.org addresses. This service a message is sent to you to let ISPs and implement it meant that is an all-or-nothing one. Either all you know. That is what you have it wasn’t possible to put one-name.org addresses have it been seeing. There is no real something in the Journal in or none. Nowadays, almost all e- value in these messages, as it is advance. It is also one of those mail addresses suffer from receiv- highly unlikely that the apparent changes that is impossible to time ing spam and viruses, so the sender of the e-mail is actually exactly. The change took nearly Committee felt that on balance the real sender with a virus- 36 hours to filter its way round this was something that would be infected computer. So, just delete the Internet. But first, a little bit of benefit to the majority of our these messages and rest assured of history to explain the reason members and opted for the ser- that an unwanted message has for the change... vice. been removed. As Internetters In order for the Guild to pro- update their Anti-Virus (AV) gress with two new projects, the Spammer definitions many times a day, it Guild Archive (detailed in the Whilst the Guild Forum would may catch viruses that your anti- April–June 2004 Journal) and the have been an option for telling virus software hasn’t yet been Guild Marriage Index, it was people about the change, it only updated for. ascertained that we needed more covers about 25% of the mem- Whilst on the subject of disc space than our ISP at the bership and we do not currently viruses, virus writers are becom- time was allowing us, and we have a system to e-mail non- ing increasing clever at using also wanted to explore other Forum members or, indeed, all social engineering to persuade avenues. A review was carried those having one-name.org people to open attachments. One out of potential new ISPs and the aliases. It may be possible to set recent scam, which was men-

Figure 1 – the contents of a typical Norton Anti-spam folder in Outlook

12 Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 your address is “live”, which means you are likely to be a target for yet more spam. It is possible to reduce the chances of e- mails being classed as spam. Firstly, write in plain text. If you check the scoring on all spam, I would guarantee that almost every one has HTML in it and an immediate score of two. Also, if you use plain text some of the others, like big text or bold text, are avoided. If you have people who e-mail you regularly and they Figure 2 – a detailed extract from an anti-spam message are being caught, ask them politely if they tioned in the last Journal, detected by Norton Anti-spam. would change their settings. It involved sending one-name Then there are some lines that will possibly mean that they will address users a message claiming have ***SPAM*** and some with get more replies to their e-mails to be from “The Management at *****SPAM***** and some that because if our anti-spam is block- one-name.org”. Clearly this isn’t even have both! The first of these ing it, so may somebody else. the Guild and we would never is generated by my own ISP and Changing to plain text normally contact members in this manner, was introduced without my ask- occurs under “message format“ but we decided that something ing or any notification and in Outlook needed to be done to assist mem- Internetters generate the second. bers with such problems and Figure 2 shows an extract from Benefit queries, especially as we have one of these messages and some May I on behalf of the Com- always tried to avoid discussion complicated lines showing why it mittee apologise for not notify- of viruses and spam on the considered the message to be ing you all in advance, but would Forum. So please read Peter spam. Now, no spam filtering can assure you all that any changes Walker’s article on WARP on page be 100% accurate; there are that we made were for the bene- 26! bound to be some false positives fit of the Guild and its members? and some false negatives. Let me re-iterate, though, that Span filtering This is especially true of cen- it is not possible to set spam fil- Spam filtering is somewhat tralised systems like Internetters ters or virus protection for different. You get a message (which uses the Spam Assassin individual members; each is informing you that Internetters system), which won’t know about either ON or OFF for all Guild e- have detected a potential spam your personal connections and mail accounts. Similarly, the message directed at your address. preferences. It counts features of settings for each service are com- Unfortunately, the way that the message and classifies it as mon to all of Internetters’ Internetters have implemented spam if the count is greater than customers, so it is unlikely that this means that the same settings 4.2. Since it cannot always be we can arrange any significant are used for everyone that uses right, by showing you some of changes to settings. the service with them and there- the body text, you can decide We will, as promised at the fore we cannot “tweak” the whether it really was a wanted AGM, continue to monitor the options to suit ourselves. message. situation and make changes to What it shows will depend on If so, you can click on the satisfy the needs of the majority your e-mail program but Figure 1 attachment to read the original of members as appropriate. shows the contents of my Norton message. But by filtering the If you have any comments, Anti-spam folder in Outlook. This spam, it means you won’t actually please send them to shows the headers and you will open most messages and this is [email protected] notice immediately that there are helpful, as with many HTML- several different styles to the based spam messages, the act of JOHN HANSON headers. opening them causes a message Data Processing Manager Firstly they have all been to be sent to the originator that [email protected]

Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 13 lost. I arrived at the end of the quiz organised by Maurice Hemi- ngway, which was just being won by Derek Palgrave, shamelessly exploiting his knowledge of the Guild in olden times. All those present pretended not to be impressed by the fact that I had spent all day filming with Johnny Depp and I was drag- ged off to the pool table by those famous reprobates Benbrook, Stockdill and Spivey. They found the only way of beating me was by THIS year’s Annual Conference and AGM at forcing more red wine upon me, which they did. Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire, over the weekend of April 2–4 was a very special one, since it marked the Saturday morning 25th anniversary of the founding of the Guild in Come the Saturday dawn, I discovered the one 1979. A special event demands a special report and thing worse than coming face to face with your ROGER BRUTON (Member 1932) made such a good father in the bathroom mirror – your grandfather. job of reporting last year’s Conference in his own There he was, just after the retreat from Mons. The inimitable, light-hearted style that we invited him to awful weather did not improve the bleak location. I take up the baton once more! stared in wonder at the determined-looking folk striding out toward the golf course. Despite having HE FIRST test of a conference is whether or had to forego breakfast, due to my leisurely start, not you can actually find the venue. I did. the eminently sensibly-sized mugs of tea provided The directions were, as usual, very good. before the start of Saturday’s events set me up for As I was initially expecting to arrive very the morning. late (having been told I would not be free of my Ken Toll and Derek Palgrave welcomed members earlier assignation in Stratford-upon-Avon until old and (very) new to the conference – approxi- midnight), I was dreading trying to locate mately five per cent were in Wyboston in the early hours. In the event, I arrived attendance. I paid particular atten- at about nine – late enough to miss dinner but, tion to Ken’s detailed instructions importantly, not the bar. for emergency evacuation: “Out First impressions? Well, I thought it looked like a there, after me!” Despite the idea cross between an industrial estate and an open having been mooted and the prison, especially as it has a manned guardhouse. venue having the technology, web The speed bumps were plentiful and vicious. The Iain Swinnerton cams were not a feature. One fea- first one I saw. the second one I didn’t. And that was ture that will be remembered by the one that would have launched me and my many I’m sure though, was the microphones. possessions into orbit, had I been driving a convert- Amazing to think that we have online access to ible. As I was only driving at 10 miles per hour, the records of people who died two hundred years trying to locate the right building, it was even more ago, yet sitting at the back of the room we cannot exasperating. Handy hint: next time, come in a 4 x 4 hear them being read out! Microphones aside, the and drive across the grass. presentation facilities were generally very impres- Eventually, the reception beckoned and I was sive, and Roger Goacher also made flamboyant use catapulted to the desk amidst a coach load of Ealing of the sliding lighting controls. Rugby Club delegates, and was very nearly booked There were a number of overseas members’ in with them and carried off in their raucous scrum. biographies displayed both at the venue and in the What finally gave me away and saved me was my programme, which made very interesting reading grey hair and an adequate supply of teeth. I was and a refreshing change from tales of the County checked in and instructed to help myself to a Record Offices. GOONS welcome pack (which did not include my Geoff Riggs introduced the inevitably well badge) and I found my very pleasant room. Just the deserved and tricky-to-match Web Awards, while one odd omission – there was no way of locking the Roy Stockdill announced the One-Name Publications door from the inside. Awards. Sandra Turner presented the accounts – it At this point I had intended to locate my fellow was noted that GOONS genealogical projects are GOONS and then have a quick shower before needed and there are funds available. Also, next commencing the evening’s festivities. However, year’s venue has not yet been planned, although I before I could say “bookstall”, Howard Benbrook sensed a keen liking for Wyboston. Noticeable had started forcing red wine down me and I was amongst early matters raised, Polly Rubery voiced

14 Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 her concerns about spam e-mails emanating from Mary Rix, asking where my Marriage Index entries and through the Guild e-mail system. were (Oh good grief, I’ve still not done that!), but After morning coffee, Iain Swinnerton introduced Kirsty Maunder also caught me taking notes on Derek Palgrave, who regaled us with stories of the everyone. Was I that obvious? Guild at the time of its foundation, including tales I couldn’t help it, but as David Hawgood intro- of getting lost in Leicester in 1979 while heading for duced Maurice Hemingway, the name triggered the inaugural conference. Derek was just one of the memories of Harry’s Bar in Venice. presenters who gallantly fought with the array of But, then, he is not very like electric buttons on offer. Ernest, so that didn’t last long! A feature of most of the weekend’s presentations Maurice gave an interesting talk was the size of written information projected on- on newsletters he has produced, as screen – too small for the size of the room. Where well as flyers, journals and annuals, the information is simply a grey line for most in a “spreading the word” style. viewers, it is debatable whether it is worth showing Roy Stockdill, talking on pub- at all. lishing, dealt more with the layout A breathless Janice Cloud from the USA, bravely Maurice than the content of articles and researching the BOSOMWORTH name (apparently Hemingway was trying to guide us away from heavily mispronounced by some ladies in Texas!), the boring aspects of the printed gave an interesting insight into page. Handy hint – never send Roy anything with the research methods employed in etchings of churches or gothic print fonts! the USA. My favourite tip was the From where I was sitting, I could hear some gasps chocolate-covered coffee bean in the audience as people struggled to hide their A5 snacks she favours for aiding periodicals! Incidentally, for those wakefulness in record offices. A who are interested (as I was) the slightly more problematic tip was Guild journal font is deGaulle – to install a relative in Salt Lake seven feet tall with an attitude. City, with a view to providing Further handy hints were dis- rent-free accommodation. I sup- pensed on how to win the “Best Janice Cloud pose the equivalent here would be Journal” award next year. A very Roy Stockdill packing Auntie Mabel off to live in Kew. And whilst big point was that when prepar- I was worrying about “parking” small numbers of ing a publication, ensure the person printing your archive CDs at family homes around the country, publication has the same font selection as you. Spot Janice deposits shoe boxes. Well, US houses are colour within an article is also a favourite “hot” bigger, aren’t they? Janice also guided us around a spot. few of the world’s stranger genealogical websites – a very enjoyable session. Saturday dinner Janet Heskins discussed those old favourites, the The reception was hosted by Ken Toll and Derek brick wall, errors and assumptions Palgrave. I briefly got involved, in the bar area, in a in the IGI and the confusion and “Who’s-got-the-biggest-head?” competition. Much scrambling caused by family to my surprise, I lost. The last time I was in a hat legends. shop, I bought the biggest one they had. Next year, Lunch was quite nice, even in if you want to get involved bring a tape measure! the slightly clinical ambience of Being open to the public, the bar televisions were all the restaurant. Outside, the rain being avidly watched by cricket fans – I understand was lashing down on the lake sur- England were doing rather well against someone- Janet Heskins face. I imagine in better weather or-other. (can you get that in Bedfordshire?) it could be quite What I didn’t realise was that, having suggested pleasant, sitting outside on the decking with a long online a meeting of Forum contributors, a number cool drink. Despite his efforts at helping me thrash of people were expecting such a gathering. While the Stockdill/Benbrook axis at pool, I bought a map we did eventually get a photograph organised on from Phil Spivey’s bookstall. Saturday evening of a number of us, the “get- Peter Walker introducing himself as the Guild together” never really happened. Perhaps it should website manager and raised a slight undercurrent of be more formally organised next time? I apologise if good-humoured hissing and booing – I can’t think I let the side down! why. He, in turn, introduced Paul Millington, the For dinner, I was seated at table 10 between Guild Vice-Chairman. Paul, as was to be expected, Hugh Cave, an excellent supplier of red wine, and had mastered the microphone! Well, almost. He Bruce Margrett. It was a very enjoyable event and demonstrated the new data archive system and the meal. All the controversial elements of last year’s method of applying for an account and the Guild dinner were absent. However, my wife will think I marriage index. am lying, as there was ONE thing on the menu During the tea break, not only was I cornered by Continued on page 18

Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 15 Celebrating 25 years of the Guild at the anniversary Conference and AGM at Wyboston Lakes Derek cuts the birthday cake, Pamela gets a kiss...

President Derek Palgrave opens the Conference, flanked by Guild Chairman Ken Toll and Treasurer Sandra Turner Pamela Palgrave, wife of our President, gets a kiss from Ken Toll after Ken had Above: Ken Toll chairs presented Derek with a plaque mark- the Annual General ing his long service to the Guild. Meeting of the Guild. Top: One-name study Top right: Derek Pal- displays at the Confer- grave, as President ence; above: Howard and one of the Guild’s ...and Kirsty joins the band! Benbrook, the Guild’s original founder bookstall manager members in 1979, had the honour of Left and below: some cutting the 25th happy groups at the anniversary cake. anniversary dinner.

Above: Some of the audience take a brief “time out” between the lecture sessions.

Right: A slightly raucous group of Guild members Kirsty Maunder, our new Secretary, is a lass seem to be enjoy- of many talents – among them, playing the ing themselves at saxophone. She delighted members when Pictures by Peter the reception she joined the band and sat in at the after- Walker, Alan Bardsley before dinner – or dinner jazz entertainment. and Gordon Adshead was it after?

16 Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 17 (from page 15) which I am supposed not to like! brought him up to his desired height. When the milk and sugar failed to appear with the Victor Medlock, the newest Guild member coffee, Michael Egerton proved to be a splendid present, won the guess-the-weight-of-the- waiter and was dressed for the part. anniversary-cake competition. Rumours that this was Just one thing: I had to walk 15 paces and crane a blatant recruitment ploy were hotly denied. The my neck round a corner to see the Guild’s new cake was cut with not a little dash by Derek Pal- Secretary, Kirsty Maunder, accompanying the (very grave, armed with a sword from the Swinnerton good) band on baritone saxophone, a spectacle not armoury. The cake was duly tasted by all present at to be missed. Be warned – Kirsty has since started a morning coffee. recruitment drive for a GOONS band for next year’s Chris Braund, resplendent in a red scarf, intro- conference! Luckily, the hard-core dance floor duced the talk on one-name societies and addicts did not have so far to glide. gatherings given by Tom Bliss and Polly Rubery. Tom’s amusing tale of SUNDAY MORNING embezzlers and aglabs. recounted What a glorious morning! At least it started with the usual yarns of having to dis- blue sky and sunshine. And breakfast was all that it prove all the family legends while should be. The trick is just to get there before all the traipsing around the county record place settings are used. Keeping-your-wits-about- offices. However, he is also up you tip: do you know what is really embarrassing? Tom Bliss against a magazine aimed at 12- It’s when you have been talking to someone for ten year-old girls called “Bliss”. His minutes before you realise that you have previously major tips are to organise a family gathering had a conversation with them online! Oh dear. No “before all the oldies die” and, if possible, to get names - no pack drill! someone else to do all the leg work for you! Kirsty introduced the first Sunday session and also Polly Rubery excited my interest in obtaining an claimed the “youngest member” award. It seems A3 printer during her talk on that she was conceived at around the time and place organising a one-name gathering. of the first conference in Leicester. There were no While researching her ex-hus- remarks on this coincidence, save vehement denials. band’s grandmother’s family(!), The first session was on “Producing a One-Name she has found that the main prob- Website”, and was presented by Penny Denby and lem has been money and the cost Judy Elkington. Penny is a web of such events. Rule 1 it seems is: professional and counts the Mail “Don’t leave ANYTHING to on Sunday amongst her clients. To Polly Rubery chance!” Polly also confessed to those of us with a technical bent, pinching a lot of ideas from the this was an interesting presenta- GOONS gatherings. tion, in terms of the recommenda- The build-up to the afternoon session was tions of Dreamweaver and swathed in cloak-and-dagger mystery. Roger Fireworks but I noticed that a few Goacher built us up to a frenzy of anticipation and “luddites” were blinking, open- excitement. In the event, the mystery speakers Penny Denby mouthed. Penny has a website for turned out to be Jeanne Bunting and John Hanson her registered name, Willstrop, and made a couple presenting a picture of GOONS life in 2029 at the of interesting points for me: firstly, the idea of 50th anniversary – and dressed like something out producing a timeline for the name, and, secondly, of an Eagle comic from the 1950s. Predictions are, of the advisability of using a guest book. It had never course, notoriously difficult to make. Who would occurred to me, naïve little thing that I am, that a have predicted today’s reliance on computers in guest book might attract abuse! 1979? However, a gallant stab was made. An intro- Judy, a self-proclaimed dumb-blonde descendant ductory course in Wyboston microphone technology of Charlemagne, demonstrated her lack of technical would have been a tremendous help! prowess by immediately leaning During his closing address, Ken Toll emphasised on the presentation PC and bring- that next year’s venue had not been booked. This ing up a menu on-screen. Her was, I think, a hint that most attendees, including Elkington family website has been myself, were very happy with the choice of produced by her “little friend in Wyboston and might second a repeat booking. Weymouth” – the girlfriend of her One of Ken’s closing acts was to present President son, a relationship Judy seems Derek Palgrave with a special 25-year award. eager to encourage. I did like the While driving away in a north-westerly direction Judy Elkington picture on the site of Judy’s across the wind-swept Cambridgeshire fens, I was ancestor in his underwear. He was inclined to agree that, for the most part, the confer- demonstrating his home-made wooden replacement ence had been a great success and very enjoyable legs, required after a harrowing accident. He made and that the choice of venue had been a good one. I them several inches longer than the originals, which look forward to next year’s. ❍

18 Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 Guild DNA Seminar at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum proves one of most popular ever By Maurice Hemingway up changes the sex at conception interested in expanding our one- of those of us who go on to be name study to embrace Y-chro- HE GUILD’S latest in a born male. Clare showed us that mosome testing to check out a series of stimulating, by taking advantage of the database of registered studies. informative seminars recent huge steps in genetic sci- The database is maintained at proved no exception. ence, we could use markers from www.dnalist.net. He finished This time it was the turn of Chris the Y-chromosome to help iden- with a resume of the benefits of Pomery (Member 3400) who put tify a connection between people testing : together a very interesting day’s who had a common male • Indications of where docu- programme based around DNA, ancestor through paternal lines. mentable links may be found for and how it can benefit and sup- Having been provided with the various trees that you might port genealogists, to entertain sufficient theoretical background have or for the variants (that is, and educate us. to grasp the concept of the sci- an indication of which family The seminar had to get off to a ence, Chris Pomery re-took the groups could be expected to good start because of the venue. platform to share with us the share a common male ancestor). The wonderful Ashmolean three principal reasons for a • Indications where mistakes Museum of art and archaeology genealogists’ diversion into a might have been made in the in Oxford, which is Britain’s oldest study of Y-chromosomes. They documented trees by highlight- public museum, gave us a help establish through testing of ing that descendants do not splendid setting and an excellent descendants of a particular sur- share the same, or very similar, Y- opportunity to stretch our legs name : chromosome data. and minds during the lunch • If it is probable that they In the final presentation break. This seminar proved to be share a common male ancestor. before lunch, Dr David Ashworth one of the most popular ever, • If it is probable that those took us through the mechanics of having been sold out some time with what might be considered a testing DNA samples. David was before the event at maximum variant surname is linked. introduced as the Chief Executive capacity, with all 100 seats • If the clan members are of Oxford Ancestors, a company allocated. descendants in common or if it is founded by Professor Brian Sykes Chris Pomery opened the pro- more likely that they adopted the in the late 1990s. Under the cir- ceedings, warmly welcoming clan name in honour or as a cumstances, David played a very delegates to Oxford, introducing reward some time in earlier straight bat, describing the pro- the topic of DNA testing and ben- generations. cess from taking a sample (by efits for one-namers and indicat- rubbing a cotton bud against the ing the structure for the day. Genetic families inside of the mouth) through the The first of the five presenta- In his presentation, Chris conc- testing of the sample and its sub- tions got us off at a gallop by entrated on the first two objec- sequent analysis. setting the scene in terms of tives, given the interest that He carefully avoided any expli- genetics, DNA and the Y-chromo- these held for most Guild mem- cit marketing of his product and some. Dr Clare Harvey daughter bers. He spent some time describ- company but did take several of Guild Committee member Bar- ing how through Y-chromosome opportunities to justify the costs bara Harvey) who is a research testing we analyse “genetic to the consumer by explaining associate at the Faculty of Medi- families” and can prove a the complexities and controls cine, University College, London, hypothesis that there is just one need to ensure the extremely provided us with an introduction common male ancestor at the robust quality control and the to the theory of genetics, what a head of our one-name study, or capital outlay for the equipment. DNA “string” looks like, its con- if, in fact, the results demonstrate Nevertheless, he gave a very struction and the interesting bit that it is probable that there are interesting presentation which — the Y-chromosome. several distinct points of origin of included a description of how Clare described how it is that the male line. they had to break down the DNA this tiny component in our make- Chris advised those who were they received on the cotton bud,

Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 19 multiply it several million times to provide a work- able sample and then analyse and report the results. After lunch, we had a presentation by Patrick Guinness, who has set up the world’s largest “clan study” in conjunction with Trinity College, Dublin. He described how he is looking at the haplogroups Computer Seminar of several clans in Ireland – that is, if they are likely to share common geographical points of origin. This to be run again in was the first public airing of the data from this important study that has moved the thinking about clan formation along. Of course, while haplotypes Nottingham are of interest to one-namers, there are fewer with a detailed interest in haplogroups. By Jeanne Bunting Guild member Alan Savin provided a round-up of significant surname-based studies under way. In NCE AGAIN, in line with the Seminar Sub- 1997 he started his own study, having read an article Committee’s policy of repeating seminars in Nature about DNA testing. He could see the in a different location, we are holding a re- possibility of a direct connection between Y-chromo- run of our first Computer Seminar, which some results and the generally accepted passage of was held in Ash, Surrey, a couple of years ago. surnames. After a shaky start, he got under way This time, it will be at the Nuthall Temple Com- with University College, London, on a study to munity Centre, Nottingham Road, Nuthall, demonstrate this link, using his own surname. Alan Nottingham, on August 21 2004. Full details are on candidly shared with us the fact that by today’s the flyer included with this Journal and also on the standards his would be described as a low-resolution Guild website. Because there are no suitable eating test, only using six loci (markers) whereas contem- establishments nearby, we will be providing a buffet porary testing is using up to 43 loci. Alan also lunch which will be included in the cost of the introduced us to the published results of the Sykes, seminar. Our thanks go to Dominic Johnson for Staples, Mates/Meates and Wells studies noting that organising this. the Wells study is currently the broadest undertaken We have been a little disappointed at the turnout to date, having 261 individuals tested so far. for our computer seminars in the past. Do you all think you know it all? In each case, after the last Pomeroy study two computer seminars, even the speakers had to Chris rounded off the proceedings by providing admit they had learned something, as well as the some background to the Pomeroy and variants DNA delegates who had put themselves down as project and provided many helpful anecdotes about advanced and expert! the approach he has taken since starting in 1999, There will be three familiar faces as lecturers – it including managing the task whilst working in the is surprising how few people lecture on computing – Czech Republic. There is no doubt delegates gained and one newcomer, both to the Guild and to the a great deal from Chris and the other presenters at Seminar Sub-Committee, though she is no stranger this fascinating seminar. to lecturing and demonstrating. The seminar could hardly have come at a better I will be telling you how you can use your compu- time for me, as I launched the Hemingway DNA ter for a one-name study and that is not just about study at the Hemingway Gathering 2004 in June, My keeping data – it will cover all aspects of organising own objectives are: to identify if there is just one your study. John Hanson will give a run-down on the origin through one common male ancestor from the genealogy programs you can use for your one-name West Riding of Yorkshire; to determine if variants study. After lunch, Howard Benbrook will talk such as Hemenway, Hemingsley and Hemingbrough about online census sources and pitfalls, and Helen are true variants; and to establish if the American Williams will bring up the rear with “Service Records immigrant Ralph Hemingway, who appeared in Online”. We hope this seminar will have something what is now Massachusetts in 1632, is actually a for everyone, beginners and experts alike. Hemingway from the West Riding, as is claimed. We would be especially interested in seeing how This is of particular interest, as he spawned the other people keep their records, so if you have any largest family group of Hemingways in North displays you can bring along, please do so. These are America and was the undisputed 7 x great-grand- always a popular part of the lunch break and we father of Ernest Hemingway, the author. would like to see more. Hope to see you there! I am hoping Y-chromosome testing will once and for all align his descendants to a specific Yorkshire New Members Seminar family group or categorically indicate that there are THE GUILD is running another free seminar about no other Hemingways who have been tested with One-Name Studies and the Guild, at Longdon in the same results. Either way, it is big news for Staffordshire on October 2 2004. Our previous one Hemingways. ❍ last year in London was sponsored by the Halsted

20 Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 Trust. A flier about the seminar is enclosed with this One-Name Periodicals Awards mailing. The seminar is intended to be of particular inter- est to new members of the Guild, but all members Grubbing Around is are welcome. It is also open to members of the general public, so that they can learn about one- best Cat A journal name studies and the Guild. If you are not inter- THE results of the Guild’s 2003 Awards for One- ested in attending the seminar but know someone Name Periodicals were announced at the who might be, please pass the flier on to them and Anniversary Conference at Wyboston Lakes, also mention it at your local family history society Bedfordshire, in April. meetings, if you belong to one. Winner of the Category A section was “Grubbing The programme will be similar to last time. Guild Around”, journal of the Grubb Family Association, registrar Roger Goacher will talk on “What is a One- edited by Ken P. Grubb (Member 2790), which was Name Study and how can the Guild help?”. Vice- the unanimous choice of the judges. It is the second Chairman Paul Millington will tell you how to time that “Grubbing Around” has won the Category organise your records. After lunch, John Hanson will A Award. talk about “Sources for One-Namers”, both on and Other placings were: offline, and I will be warning you about what could • Runner-up – Tyrrell Family History Society’s 25th and what should happen to your records when you Anniversary Newsletter. die – often, sadly, these are not the same thing at • Third – “Gone A-Hunting”, newsletter of The all! Bunting Society. Please come along and bring your friends – this In Combined Categories B and C, the winner was seminar will be FREE! “Prior Times”, the quarterly journal of the Prior Family History Society, edited by John Prior (Member Other seminar news... 2696). Other placings: • Runner-up – “Benham Family Historian”, edited Unusual Studies by Stephen Benham (Member 3620). at Swindon • Third – “Totta’s News”, journal of the Tudbury/ Tudberry/Tutbury/Todbury and Variants One-Name ARRANGEMENTS for an “Unusual Studies” seminar, Study, edited by Jennifer Tudbury (Member 3571). to be held at Swindon in Wiltshire, are now com- The judges were Roy Stockdill, Janet Few and plete. Details will be published in the next Journal, Colin Ulph. but, as a taster, we will be having a talk called • The winners of each category are reminded “Please Relieve Me” and another called “Grey Owl, that under the rules of the Awards they are not a Red Indian in the Family”. allowed to enter for the following year’s Awards. Next year we will be holding one seminar devoted to maps, a computer seminar on websites Web Awards and how to design your own, one on occupations and one on unusual and lesser known sources. We THE Guild is once again running a competition for also plan, in the not-too-distant future, to repeat the best one-name website in 2004. As before, the the very popular DNA seminar in a different part of competion will be divided into two categories: the country. entries from Category A members and entries from those in Categories B and C. Closing date for entries Know a venue? is November 30 2004 and the results will be announced at the Guild AGM in April 2005. Full On the subject of other parts of the country, I am details of the competion may be found on the Guild always interested to hear of suitable venues where website at: members/web_award.html. we can hold seminars. It is far better to have a recommendation from someone based locally who Derbyshire and Staffs meeting knows the hall in question, rather than book one on spec and then find it is not really suitable. A HALF-DAY meeting for Derbyshire and Stafford- We do have a list of guidelines as to our require- shire Guild members is planned for Saturday, ments, so it anyone knows of a suitable hall, please September 18 2004, at the Priory Centre, Stretton, let members of the Seminar Sub-Committee know near Burton-on-Trent. We hope to have a represen- via e-mail at [email protected]. tative from the Guild’s officers to explain the way Ideally, we would like someone to keep a data- the Guild is moving forward. Then David Bethell will base of suitable halls and their facilities, so if you enlighten us as to how his FONS organisation oper- have nothing else to do...! ❍ ates and perhaps let us into some of his research sources. JEANNE BUNTING The afternoon will wind up with a question- and- Chairman answer session. For more details, contact Ron Duck- Seminar Sub-Committee ett, whose details can be found inside the back cover of this journal. – RON DUCKETT

Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 21 The Guild Forum – a valuable resource on your desktop By Peter Walker, Forum Manager

OURCES are the life- right answer. Such sequences are ienced members. I marvel at the blood of one-namers. known as “threads”. depth of knowledge of some of Show me an index and When you first join the Forum, the participants. It seems no I’m searching for my you may not wish to post any e- question beats them, even if it is registered name. Finding a new mails right away. Many stay in the outside the direct concern of and valuable source is always a background and read the col- ONSs. Exchanges on digital cam- joy. But many members may not lected thoughts of the list. This is eras were very enlightening.” realise that the Guild itself has known as “lurking” and the Ron Woodhouse (4126) one of the most valuable sources majority of members do this most you are likely to find – our own of the time, as 400 responses to a “Members of the Forum are e-mail list, known as the Forum. question would be over the top! very knowledgeable on a great Here you have access to the On average, the Forum has 11 number of subjects related not knowledge and wisdom of hun- messages a day, but the number just to conducting a one-name dreds of Guild members. may vary widely according to the study, but history and sources of There are few problems that popularity of a topic. Messages virtually the whole world, plus someone won’t be able to help are delivered to the e-mail anything to do with using com- you with, and you may find out address of your choice, which can puters for family history. I don’t about sources of information that be your normal one or your Guild think I’ve ever asked a question sometimes disappear almost as one-name.org alias. You can that has had no response.” soon as they’ve been discovered. choose to receive them as Merryl Wells (1757) Over 420 Guild members are individual messages or in digest on the Forum, yet we know there form – a single e-mail with the “One of the most useful fea- are probably twice as many again messages as attachments. tures is ways to get the best out who have e-mail but who are not All messages have the text [G] of online sources. Perhaps though members. This article aims to per- in front of the subject field, so county discussion groups are hav- suade those of you in the latter you can sort the messages into a ing similar discussions, a pound to category you don’t know what folder for later reading. It’s also a pinch of salt that most of them you’re missing! What’s more, useful to ensure that any anti- didn’t hear about the New York those already on the Forum spam filter you may use recogn- Times, and/or didn’t carry such would welcome the expertise ises Forum mail and lets it well-informed directions on how that maybe only you can bring on through. Forum messages are to use the Leeds Indexers’ tools to some specific topic. plain text and have no attach- get the most out of the 1901 Eng- What is the Forum? Our ments, so they cannot be the land and Wales census.” website describes it as a “lively source of viruses. And only Guild Stephen Benham (3620) discussion forum where members members can join, so you won’t can discuss the Guild, one-name get any spam. When you respond “I value the Forum for the tips studies and other genealogical to a message, you can either and timely advice about web matters.” Technically, it’s a mail- reply so the whole list can see sources. A good example was the ing list hosted by Rootsweb. So your input (press “Reply-All”) or free access to the 192,com site what does that mean? you can make a private reply to over Christmas when I gathered The Forum is an e-mail address, the sender (press “Reply”). all the 2002 & 2003 electoral roll [email protected]. When I could spend all of this article data for my ONS.” you send a message, it is broad- trying to persuade you why the Eileen Adkins (2782) cast to all members. So if you Forum is so valuable and why you have a query, hundreds of people should join, but I thought I’d let “I find the Forum helpful to will see it and the chances are members speak for themselves... find new sources for my ONS but someone will be able to help. I also enjoy the more technical Alternatively, the e-mail may Members’ verdicts discussions of digital photogra- develop into an interactive “I‘ve taken on a one-name phy, databases, spreadsheets and exchange of ideas and thoughts study and the first thing is to look FH programs.” from many members, which may at what problems others are fac- Shirley Forster (3754) help you decide how to approach ing and to benefit from the a problem where there is no one answers given by the more exper- “Every one-namer should sub-

22 Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 scribe because we as a group can an answer from someone who far from the centre of action, the help. You don’t feel an idiot has been there before.” Forum, along with the Journal, when you post your question – Peter Adams (1915) maintains my only link with the we all know next to nothing Guild. It would be very lonely about certain things. The divers- “It has members with all levels being 10,000 km from ‘home’ and ity of the group means all sorts of of experience, who freely share only receiving the Journal.” problems can be resolved quickly. their knowledge of genealogical David Evans (3062), Australia The Forum is the best online sup- issues. It is often thought-provok- port you can get – and it’s free!” ing and sometimes makes me “Rarely a week goes by with- Shelagh Mason (2519) reassess my own methods for out a message telling me undertaking my ONS.” something I didn’t know that “Forum members are a fount Roger Goacher (2839) helps me with my study or alert- of knowledge on all aspects of ing me to a previously unknown family history, whether pertain- “The GOONS list offers me a source. As a member in Canada, ing to a one-name study or not. way of staying in touch with the the Forum removes the feeling of Being able to ask a question and major topics/developments that isolation from genealogy in the within a day have replies back, interest me without getting bog- UK which I would otherwise feel. stating sources and examples, is ged down at the county level. The sum of the experience of tremendously useful. Because The volume of mail is ideal and Forum participants is formidable, everyone is engaged in relatively the threads last just long enough as evidenced by the number of advanced research, I’ve not come to keep it interesting.” questions which receive speedy, across those ‘Does anyone know Ruth Rathbone (3105) knowledgeable answers.” of my great-grandfather born in Dick Chandler (2767) Canada London, name of Peter?’ ques- “The Forum makes the Guild tions one encounters on other more than just a Society.” Members often hear about lists. At the same time, older Julie Goucher (3925) useful sources for the first time members are always very helpful via the Forum. Here are some when a newbie asks for advice.” Our overseas members particu- mentioned by members:- Theresa Heskins (3739) larly value the Forum as a means 192.com; Access to Archives; of keeping in touch... FONS; Leeds Indexers program; “‘Why join the Guild Forum?’ is “Being remote from other WW1 Medal Index Cards; Ances- similar to the answer to the ques- Guild members, the Forum is my try.co.uk; Surname Atlas; PRO tion: ‘Why join the Guild?’ You sole contact with people inter- Wills Online; Old Bailey Online; don’t know why until that odd ested in one-name studies. Only Brass rubbings index; Jurors in snippet of information about a there can I discuss the problems Singapore; The London Gazette new source, a transcription, a and methods of a ONS with an Online; British History Online; technique, an occupation, how to understanding and helpful Obituary Daily News; Judges publish, making contacts, etc., group. Members seem unusually Reports on Criminals; Brian comes to light that suddenly well informed on related matters Teece’s Look-up List; the Paper of sends your research on a great such as data sources, history of Record free trial. leap. If you have a problem, there records, database usage, etc. I hope I have persuaded those is always someone on the Forum Some contacts made through the of you with e-mail but who are that can solve it. Conversely, Forum have become lasting e- not yet Forum members to join everyone has extra knowledge of mail friendships.” up. It’s easy! Just fill in the form some aspect of our work that Bill Bunning (1325), USA in the members’ area of the Guild they in turn can contribute.” website: Alan Bardsley (1769) “I find the list invaluable, par- http://www.one-name.org/ ticularly all the sites people members/forms.html “One of the best things I recommend. I’d never have time or send me an e-mail at found from the Forum is the pos- to search these out on my own. [email protected], stating sibility of exchange work. Several And the responses to the ques- your membership number and members have done extracts tions (mostly asked by other whether you want list or digest from the 1901 census in exchange people, not by me) have helped subscription. Give it a try – you for my PR and Wills searches in me learn a lot. As I live out of the can leave at any time and it is, of Gloucester Record Office.” UK, it’s the Forum that makes my course, free to all members. More David Mowbray (986) subscription worthwhile.” information can be read here:- Anthea Ashfield (770), Canada http://www.one-name.org/ “The Forum is equivalent to a members/forumfaq.html Family History Encyclopedia – all “A reason for being on the I look forward to meeting queries and questions on virtually Forum is a sense of belonging, more of you on our unique all family history topics will find even though I’m a lurker. Being Forum. ❍

Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 23 of the NBI was extremely popular, At last – a price list but the FFHS has considerably I’m sorry that I let my expanded the content in this new enthusiasm run away with me in edition. There are now four CDs, the last issue of the Journal. I had not 2, containing over 13 million fully expected to be able to burials. That’s an increase of include a Members’ Bookstall 150%. The official price is £45 but price list, but I completely under- I’m delighted to tell you that it’s estimated the amount of time it available to Guild members for would take me to prepare the list £36, giving you a discount of at a time when I had other com- 20%. If you already have the First mitments, and I missed the Edition, though, you’ll need to deadline to include it in the mail- get in touch with FFHS (Publi- ing. However, I’m pleased to say SoG Fair pulls that I’ve now managed to get my life organised and you should in the punters have received a price list with this Journal. If you missed out, let me HAT IS it about the know. SoG May Fair (oops, If you’re not close to the itiner- sorry, Family History ary for the Bookstall (mostly the Show)? Every year, south of England), this is for you. thousands of enthusiastic geneal- I hope that you’ll be able to take ogists pour through the doors of advantage of the 10% discount the Royal Horticultural Hall in offered on nearly all the Book- London during a very full week- stall items. Postage and packing end in early May and part with will need to be paid, of course, large amounts of cash. but there are just two mail order Some are novices who drift cations) who will upgrade your prices, UK and non-UK. from stall to stall, wide-eyed at NBI for £25. If you didn’t catch it I’d better point out that this is the vast range of products on the first time around and you’d a members’ price list. I’m unable offer, clutching a few pocket- like to purchase the Second Edi- to accept orders from non-mem- sized booklets with titles that tion, then just fill in the order bers this way. This may change in begin: ‘Introduction to...” or form on the Bookstall price list. the future, but I want to take this ‘Basic Facts about...” development steadily and to con- Their buying style is to be cau- At last – binders trol the level of work involved. If tious, quite understandably. But I’ve been asked frequently necessary, I will include an then there is the much larger, about the possibil- updated price list with each issue determined group of people ity of offering of the Journal and you should who’ve been around a bit and binders to hold make a point of checking for any seem to regard the event as the back issues of the new edition, because there may annual spring-cleaning for their Journal. Older be changes – and that includes bank account. These people are members may prices! on a mission: they are deter- remember that we mined to leave the hall with as used to offer an Website pages little cash as possible, and have A5 binder but, To go with the new price list, I probably stretched their credit with the dawn of shall place some new Bookstall limit to full plasticity. the Editor Stock- pages on the Guild’s website, The Guild was there, of course, dill era, A4 inside the Member’s Room. This helping people come to terms became the size will give me the opportunity to with their obsession and my back de jour, and you’ve been left include a small description of and my voice still bear testimony with piles of old Journals littering each item that I sell on the Book- to the level of trade we saw. It’s the back of the cupboard. stall; I hope you find this useful. madness, but we love it! Well, throw away all those I’m not yet at the stage where I elastic bands and bits of string – can accept orders through the What’s new, what’s big? now you can have 12 copies of website directly, but this will be New and big? This time, it has the Journal bound in a posh blue where you can download the to be the much-awaited launch binder that will look magnificent most recent price list. If you’re of the Second Edition of the on your bookshelf (see illustra- able to fill out your order as a National Burial Index (NBI), from tion). The price of this splendid “soft copy” (the price list will be the Federation of Family History item is a mere £5.00, plus p&p. available in MSWord from the Societies (FFHS). The First Edition Fill in the order form now! website), then I can accept your

24 Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 order as an attachment to an e- ing before Saturday’s insanity. centre. Your experience could mail. Now, I think that’s what you call help a lot of people. If you have friendly rivalry! some time to help out, just let me Where we’ve been... know (address below). The first big event we Where we’re going... attended since the last issue of This time of year things Thank You the Journal was the Guild’s Con- become quieter, but there are still It’s such a pleasure when mem- ference and AGM at Wyboston a number of events we plan to bers offer to help behind the Lakes in Bedfordshire. For me, it’s visit: stall. It’s not just that they put in the “other” big event to the SoG • Kent FHS 30th Birthday and a lot of work, but it’s great to Family History Show and was very Open Day, Chatham, July 3 hear them explain to the public successful. So, although there are • Guild Computer Seminar, what we do and to catch the fewer events to report this time, Nottingham, August 21 many different reasons why peo- things have still been hectic. In • FFHS Conference “A Flight of ple start a one-name study. I’d between the two “biggies”, I Yesterdays”, Loughborough, particularly like to thank: Richard managed to squeeze in the Fam- Leicestershire, August 29 Akhurst, Sue Atkins, Trish Bliss, ily History Fair at Worthing, West • Kent FH Fair, Maidstone, Richard Chilvers, Bob Cumber- Sussex, and at the time of writing September 5 batch, Ken Grubb, Barbara I’ve just returned from taking the • Cheltenham FH Fair, Chelten- Harvey, Marc Hiles, Kirsty Bookstall to the Guild’s successful ham, September 19 Maunder, Roy Rayment, Ken Toll DNA Seminar in Oxford. • HGS Open Day, Horndean, and Sandra Turner, who all gave Next, it’s the huge Family Hampshire, September 26 me so much support. Thank you – History Fair at the York Do drop in if you’ve some time I can’t do this without you! Racecourse in late June. Because to spare when we’re in the area. If you’d like to contact Howard it’s so far for me, I make a week- And, of course, you gain a much about any of the items he holds end of that event and this year deeper experience through tak- on the bookstall, you can e-mail some of the stallholders are tak- ing part! It’s not at all like selling him at guild.bookstall@one- ing a quiet trip to include dinner used cars, despite my reputation name.org, or write to 7 Amber on the river on the Friday even- – more like a glorified advice Hill, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 1EB.

seek guidance from me on and haven’t already completed a what the Guild actual Gift Aid declaration, again please requires of its members. consider doing so. This enables To overcome these ano- the Guild to claim back the tax malies and to bring the you have paid on your subscrip- guidance more up to date, tion. Forms for all these transac- the current advice has been tions are included as a flyer with reviewed. A revised set of this Journal. guidance notes has been One further issue: in the past put on the Guild website we have offered members the and will be used in future in opportunity to take out or renew Guild documentation as it is subscriptions to Ancestors and IRST, my thanks to all those reprinted. Family Tree Magazine as part of members who contacted Rod Clayburn joined the Guild the annual renewal process. We me about their surname Committee in April and has won’t be offering the same facil- variants and Register entry, agreed to handle the subscription ity in the same way this year. as following my article in the last renewals for next year. This will the administration of this service Journal. I was gratified so many allow me to concentrate fully on has become difficult, especially of you took the trouble to review the Registrar’s main duties with the change in the produc- your one-name study. I am throughout the year. tion schedule of Ancestors always pleased to hear from Your annual subscription is not magazine. members who have any queries due until November 1 2004, and a In future, we are looking at about registration issues. renewal invitation flier will ways in which a subscription ser- For some time, Guild guidance appear in the October Journal. vice to genealogical publications on registration requirements has However if you do not already could be offered to members been somewhat inconsistent. The pay your subscription by Standing through the Bookstall. We shall, actual wording varies between Order or by credit card with a however, still be offering mem- the website, the Register, the Repeat Transaction Authority, bers the chance to subscribe to Members’ Handbook and the please consider doing so. This will the Federation of Family History Guild Introductory leaflet. Many simplify Rod’s task at renewal Societies’ Family History News & prospective and new members time. If you pay taxes in the UK Digest on the renewal form. ❍

Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 25 WARP – the Guild’s new service to members to help beat computer security threats by Peter Walker

IN an article on pages 12 and online community they belong sources of information on compu- 13, John Hanson, the Guild’s to, the Guild ought to encourage ter security. Data Processing Manager, some mutual self-help on the Only I post to this list, so it is explains why we have changed subject. not an interactive list like the our e-mail system to try and, So, with the blessing of the Guild Forum. hopefully, deal with spam and Committee, I have launched the Any Guild member can join virus threats. Here, PETER Guild Warning, Advice and this list – it’s useful to all online WALKER, Forum Manager, Reporting Point – called WARP members even if you don’t explains his new early-warning for short – to address the need to belong to the Forum. To join, system to help members who support members with advice and simply post a blank e-mail to are worried by these nuisances. answer queries about computer guild-warp- security matters, while keeping [email protected] O, IT’S not Star Trek, but the debate on the Forum to When I’ve approved your mem- a new service to Guild purely genealogical matters. bership, you will then get an e- members to provide mail in response, inviting you to advice on computer Help desk sign up to the list, including an security threats. So what is the WARP? It’s really option to sign up to the Many of you will have seen the a one-man help desk (i.e. me!) associated website. If you decide notice in the last Journal concern- that aims to assist members by on the latter you will need a ing Guild members being tar- answering their queries, sharing Yahoo ID and password – you geted by a virus attack. Messages advice with others and distribut- may already have one if you were being sent to Guild mem- ing warnings about the latest belong to other Yahoo groups. bers purporting to come from viruses or other scams to watch This website is at:- “the One-name.org team” and out for. http://groups.yahoo.com/ suggesting that you open the e- As one-Namers, computer data group/guild-warp/ mail attachment, which would is our lifeblood and many of us It contains Internet links to have infected your computer are prolific users of the Internet some useful sites relating to com- with a virus. and e-mail. There are many puter security and also an Actually, the Guild was not places where you can learn about advisory document called “Simple targeted as such, since such spoof computer security issues, but steps to securing yourself, your messages were generated ent- none would be local enough to computer and your data;“ Do you irely automatically and many e- put this in the context of know the difference between a mail domains suffered similar genealogy and the Guild’s own e- Virus and a Trojan? If not, this messages. mail alias system, our Forum and document will explain it all. However, as Forum Manager, I the “One-name.org team” mes- At the time of writing, some felt this was the last straw. sages mentioned earlier. 95 Guild members have joined Something had to be done! There are two components to the WARP distribution list since it Members have been worried the WARP. was launched in March. about the present-day plagues of • Firstly, an e-mail address... I hope that many more of you viruses, spam and hacking [email protected] will join the list. Not only will it attacks, yet many members are where I can be reached if you provide clear advice on threats not expert enough to know what want to ask for advice or report but also you can assist others by is or is not safe. something unusual. sharing your worries and experi- I have always discouraged dis- • Then there is an e-mail distri- ences. ❍ cussion of such matters on the bution list, where I post useful PETER WALKER Forum for two reasons... information about new threats, Guild WARP administrator Firstly, discussion amongst non- advice and news from other [email protected] experts can lead to the propaga- tion of hoaxes and other urban SINCE it isn’t always possible to avoid splitting a long e-mail or myths. Secondly, such discussion Internet address, due to column width as above, here are those vital can end up taking over all debate addresses again... and drive people away from the • To subscribe: [email protected] Forum. However, many members • Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/guild-warp/ felt that as the Forum is the only

26 Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 Rise and fall of the Essex Phillibrowns a fascinating ily from the 1300s until the late one’s own, but Glenda Thornton 1800s. Each chapter deals with a has certainly proved that saying different era and is illustrated wrong with this book. It is an family story with maps of and pictures, which inspiration and an outstanding DEAD RELATIVES: The Rise and help to bring the characters to example of how to write an Fall of the Phillibrowns in Essex, life. entertaining and fascinating fam- London and New York City, by Each chapter is also named ily history story. Glenda Thornton, published by after a different person: Thomas the author, 2960 Pharr Court the Wine Cooper, Thomas the SANDRA TURNER South, #N5, Atlanta, GA 30305, e- Writer, John the Woollen Draper, mail: [email protected]. John the Cooper, John the Broker, ACROSS THE TAMAR, by Janet Hardback, 194 pages, ISBN 0- etc., and we learn of the fortunes Few, published by The Braund 9714110-0X. Price £45. of that person’s immediate fam- Society, 12 Ranelagh Road, San- ily. The characters are easy to down, Isle of Wight, PO36 8NX. GLENDA Thornton told me that relate to, as Glenda brings them A5, 80 pages, card cover, ISBN 0- when she came to choose a title all to life in the pages of this 954050-4-1. Price £5.60 inc p&p, for this book, Dead Relatives book. We are able to share her UK, £7.0 inc overseas postage by seemed the only choice, because excitement when finding a grave air mail. all the time she had been or a will – we all know the researching the Phillibrowns this feeling. THIS is the second part of “So was how she thought of them! Also, as we all do, Glenda Soon Passeth It Away”, which was And why not, indeed? encountered dead ends, but she a prize-winning entry in the Mil- At first glance, this is a very didn’t leave them out of her lennium family history competi- impressive book – a hardback of book. There was one family we tion run by the Institute of nearly 200 pages with very fine learn a lot about and then they Heraldic and illustrations, a beautiful cover went to America and disap- Genealogical peared, although it seems their Studies. The descendants are there still. first part was called “Cornish Fortunes Origins” and The book follows the family the series tells fortunes, showing how from the story of early beginnings as yeomen in Janet Few one branch of rural Essex the Phillibrowns rose the West in the social scale, becoming wine Country Braund family over a and sugar coopers and property period of 250 years. owners in the City of London, leaving considerable wills. Then, Dockyards as so many families also do, they The author, a Braund by birth, declined until they ended up in follows them as they leave rural the East End of London in very Cornwall in the early 19th cen- crowded accommodation. tury to cross the Tamar river – Their circumstances changed hence the title – to Plymouth, seemingly when Thomas Philli- where they became dockyard and high standard of production. brown, a publican’s son who workers and seamen. Nor was it a disappointment became an engraver, deserted his The story is seen against a when I opened it and began to wife and family and emigrated to backdrop of the Napoleonic era, read. New York. His wife died in a life in the Victorian navy and the Glenda, a Guild member (No. lunatic asylum and their daughter dockyards, and covers the cholera 1959), who was born and married an illiterate labourer and epidemic of 1849 and the Opium brought up in North London and became a lowly charwoman. Wars. is now an American citizen, has Some folks cynically say the Another facet of the family focused on members of this fam- only interesting family history is story, like so many from that part

Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 27 of Britain, involves emigration to local and family history. the ranks of the aristocracy. America. Over half a century of research This is a book either for read- As one who lectures on writing into names has convinced him ing all the way through on a up your family history, I always that every forename has a decent train journey, or for sitting stress to those contemplating this “pedigree”, which can be down and dipping into at any task how important it is to set regional, local or centred even on chapter and being certain of find- your story in the context of local just one family. In this book, he ing something to keep you and national events, and I am explores the implications for both enthralled. glad to see the author has done amateur and academic historians, this admirably. There is also has tracing the history of christian ROY STOCKDILL an impressive list of sources, bib- names and their respective popu- liography and comprehensive larity over 700 years, and chal- Latest books from FFHS index lenging some cherished WORDS FROM WILLS AND assumptions by other writers on OTHER PROBATE RECORDS, by ROY STOCKDILL the subject which he shows to be Stuart A Raymond. A5 Paper- flawed. back, 114 pages, ISBN 1 86006 CHRISTIAN NAMES IN LOCAL Beginning in Norman times, 181 8. Price £8.50 AND FAMILY HISTORY, by George Redmonds first looks at the Redmonds, published by The development of personal names THE latest from the prolific National Archives. Hardback, 208 from around 1200–1400 and the Stuart Raymond, this useful book pages, ISBN 1 903365 52 X. Price considerable influence of the provides an excellent glossary to £16.99 Conquest on our stock of older many of those difficult-to-under- established English names. He stand words you are likely to I AM an avowed and dedicated concentrates particularly on the come across in old wills. The fan of George Redmonds! Yes, I poll tax returns of 1377–81, the author also has a useful biblio- know some people probably most valuable early records for graphy of other books relating think I go on about him too name researchers. to county wills and where to find much, but for me there is no finer them. exponent of the art of writing Name pop charts about names and making every The name popularity “charts” WORLD WAR I ARMY ANCESTRY word fascinating. of 700 years ago see riding at the (Fourth Edition), by Norman It’s not just that he’s a fellow top those names which are still Holding, revised and updated by Yorkshireman and an outstanding very much with us today – John, Iain Swinnerton. A5 paperback, speaker – though those facts William, Thomas, Robert, Richard 104 pages, ISBN 1 86006 179 6. endear him to me, of course – but and Henry for males, and Joan, Price £6.95 Alice, Isabel, Margaret, Ellen and Christine for females. THIS latest edition of the popular However, Redmonds points out work, first published in 1982, has how unsafe it can be to make been updated by the well-known assumptions about a person’s sex military historian, Iain Swinner- in an old record from their ton. Both he and the original christian name, for in his author Norman Holding are researches he found Richard, long-standing Guild members. Robert, Laurence, Philip, Thomas and Nicholas all being used for FIRST NAME VARIANTS (Third girls, while names that are edition) by Alan Bardsley, A5 regarded as exclusively male paperback, 108 pages, ISBN 1 today – such as Julian and 86006 177 X. Price £5.95. Christian – once upon a time were always always feminine, as ANOTHER old favourite by a was Douglas in the 17th and 18th familiar Guild member, now in its his scholarship is equalled only by centuries. Oh, yes – and he found third edition. his down-to-earth writing style, a woman in 1379 who rejoiced in which makes even the driest aca- the name of Diot Coke! • All the above are published demic research entertaining for In other chapters, Dr Red- by Federation of Family History the ordinary reader. monds looks at first names from Societies (Publications) Ltd, Units Dr Redmonds’ previous books parents and godparents, names 15–16, Chesham Industrial Cen- have dealt with surnames, but in from abroad, saints’ names, tre, Oram Street, Bury, Lancashire this latest offering he concen- names from legend, literature BL9 6EN; online bookshop at trates on the study of christian and the Bible and first names www.familyhistorybooks.co.uk names and their influence on from surnames, especially from

28 Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 Anniversary was an ise, as a result of my experience, found. Clearly, from Derek Pal- it may well be the highlight of grave’s article longer names will extraordinary event your trip. have more variants and no THE 25th Anniversary Conference standard number of these is at Wyboston Lakes was an PETER SIMPSON going to serve all members extraordinary event and one Member 1727 equally well. which circumstances seemed des- 49 Anzac St The origin of the name Heri- tined to have me attend. An Takapuna, Auckland 1309 tage had bedevilled me for more unexpected work visit to Europe New Zealand than 40 years and I had resigned and dates that fitted perfectly [email protected] myself to never knowing the ori- with the conference meant a gin or origins until a few months quick decision was needed. For- Meaning of Heritage ago. Since childhood, I had been tunately, the organisers could I AM a long-term member of the given to understand that the accommodate my very late Guild and read Derek Palgrave’s name derived from France, and booking. article on the subject of variants certainly it has a French ring to it. Work trips, especially long- (JOONS Vol 8 Issue 5) with more On that assumption, I searched haul, tend to be exhausting and than a little interest. Originally, I and searched for anyone sharing it is true that I did wonder if I planned to address this letter to the name in France but never should be bothered. How glad I him, but on reflection it seemed with any success. am that I did not waiver. to me that a wider audience I reasoned that the word My reason for relating this tale might be interested. “heritage” was likely to have the to our membership is simply to The variations of my registered prefix of d’ or l’ and also searched reinforce to those of us in other surname, HERITAGE, have never for surnames like Deritage or countries what a wonderful really presented a problem for Leritage anywhere, but again organisation we belong to. There me. As Derek Palgrave wrote, the without success. I found a variety is no question that the confer- different spellings that occur are of spelling variations but all of ence, as well as a most interesting obviously just that and I have these clearly derive from the programme, gave me the chance found no genuine variants in the basic word Erytage/Heritage and I to meet the most wonderful, sense that they have always been have never found any genuine friendly folk that we know different. variants. The closest are Her- genealogists are; but further, the Cases with and without the mitage and Heredge but both of level of experience and initial H and with the “i” these are the subject of separate knowledge that was clearly evi- replaced by “y” and so forth do one-name studies and we all dent even in casual conversation exist, but all such families may be agreed that there are no links proved that our members are linked to each other and often between the three groups. certainly serious researchers. A variants such as an “rr” in place There the matter rested until a step ahead of the average hobby- of “r” are very fleeting. Using few months ago, during a period ist, there is no doubt. Derek Palgrave’s Figure 1, I calcu- of enforced idleness, when I late that, theoretically, there are began to research medieval Value 288 spelling variants. I have history rather more seriously and I am pleased to report that found most of these, but their read the Anglo Saxon Chronicles there was clear evidence that the scarcity and fleeting existence has for the first time. There, staring organisation values its wider discouraged me from any serious me in the face, was the word membership and is constantly study and I have not always “heritoga”, which originally looking for ways to add member- recorded them literally. meant the leader of a war band ship value to those of us in other but later became a community countries. Variants leader. The word is so similar to In summary, I would commend I share Mr Tanner’s difficulties “heritage” that I cannot ignore it any members who are contem- in limiting the variations which and I now have an even more plating a visit to either Europe or the Guild permits me to register profound mystery. the UK for business or pleasure, (Vol 8 Issue 5). I have listed those Heritoga is a Middle Saxon to plan such a visit around any variations which will spread my word which continued in use future Guild conference. You will entries in indexes rather than to until the Norman period. Could it not be disappointed and I prom- indicate those most likely to be have become a surname, given

Journal of One-Name Studies, July–September 2004 29 that surnames did not evolve although I was informed of it Poor Alan Savin had to fit his until much later? Where may I quite voluntarily. detailed talk on major DNA- discover how long a Saxon word I intend to continue my annual based one-name studies into the remained in use? As I understand checks of worldwide hatches, short time slot left and this could it, the French language derives matches, despatches and wills possibly have been omitted and from Latin with some influences – until I hang up my research. left for a future DNA seminar. and with no Saxon elements. So John Hitchon You always learn something did the French impose their use Member 0488 new at every seminar, and so I did of the word, meaning “legacy”, Kilbrannan at this one. A visit to the Ash- on Britons, using it as a commu- Quarry Road molean Museum during the long nity title during the Norman Cupar Muir lunch break added to my period and which of these is the Cupar knowledge and left me with a basis for my name? Fife KY15 5QP promise to return and do the I shall be fascinated to learn museum properly. It was a nice the reactions of members to my Oxford DNA Seminar day out. puzzle. Is anyone able to give me Liz Clayburn AS a third party observer (my a contact with an expert in such 4 Winnham Drive husband is a Guild member), matters? Fareham invited to the Headley Lecture John Heritage Hampshire PO16 8QE Theatre of the Ashmolean Member 67 Museum for the DNA Seminar at 1 Butler Road Oxford. I went along with an Whose signature? Crowthorne open mind. WERE you one of the intrepid Berks RG45 6QZ Following the introductions by Guild members who attended the Chris Pomery, who I have heard SoG Family History Show in Lon- No to 100-year cut-off speak on the subject previously, don in May? Did you buy I THINK David Weston is wrong the first speaker, Dr.Clare Harvey, something from the Guild Book- to limit his data collection by took 30 minutes to explain the stall? If you did, do you recognise imposing a 100-year cut-off intricacies of DNA. I’m afraid that the signature below? (JOONS Vol 8 No. 4). I collect all they did not cover this subject in references to HITCHONs world- my nursing training, so although wide, any time, anywhere. this was well presented, it went By not collecting family data somewhat over my head. Perhaps from those living and those born it was too early in the day? since 1904, it would not be poss- Chris then came back to out- ible to... line the connections between • Include myself, my wife and types of DNA and its use in a one- siblings on any Hitchon family name study. This made the sub- This was how someone signed tree. ject a bit clearer and I decided to a credit card slip that was used to • Include my parents on any push on through and not disap- buy a copy of Phillimore’s Atlas & family tree. pear to the shops. Index of Parish Registers and a £5 • Include my daughter on any I am glad I stayed, as fellow census voucher. Unfortunately, in tree. Lancastrian, David Ashworth, all the chaos, my helper made a • Include a fourth generation, gave a thoroughly professional mistake with the ancient credit namely my two lovely grand- talk on the methodology of DNA card machine and the imprint of daughters. testing and how amplification of the card failed to come through. I • Have any living family mem- DNA samples are used both in don’t know who bought the bers subscribing to my newsletter. genealogy and forensic Research items; the only thing I have is this They freely provide information – all extremely interesting. signature. on their branches of the family. We moved on to Patrick Guin- My generous helper insisted on • Put “lost” relatives in touch ness, the lead speaker, who compensating the Bookstall, but I with each other, something that would reveal all about the Guin- would dearly love to return their has been most rewarding to all ness clan – well we had to wait a money. So – if this is how you sign concerned. bit as Patrick took us through the your name, would you please • Include births, marriages or full history of DNA studies, make contact? recent photographs in my family including horse and cattle ped- Howard Benbrook newsletter. igrees, Genghis Khan and the Bookstall Manager • Arrange family reunions. blood of the Vikings before arriv- 7 Amber Hill • Plot the present distribution ing at the origins of Guinness Camberley from telephone directories. from the Magennis Clan. A very Surrey GU15 1EB I have only once been asked to interesting talk, but were we left [email protected] suppress delicate information, wondering?

30 Journal of One-Name Studies, April–June 2004 Regional Representatives as at June 1 2004 E-mail contact To contact a Regional Representative by e-mail, use the alias in the following format:- [email protected], with the name of the region replacing “scotland-north” as appropriate (put “-” instead of a space). Where there is no e-mail contact, the message will go to [email protected] ENGLAND KENT WILTSHIRE SOUTH AFRICA BERKSHIRE Clifford Kemball Richard Moore Brian Spurr Peter Tanner 168 Green Lane 1 Cambridge Close 32 Newport Avenue 7 Reading Road Chislehurst Swindon SN3 1JG Glenashley Burghfield Common Kent BR7 6AY KwaZulu Near Reading RG7 3PY WORCESTERSHIRE Natal 4051 Derek Gallimore LINCOLNSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE The Grange UNITED STATES See Oxfordshire John Laws 30 Pinewoods Avenue USA SOUTH EAST 4 The Hardings Hagley, Stourbridge Dr. John Cookson CORNWALL Welton LN2 3FE West Midlands DY9 0JF 13203 W. Heritage Woods Pl. Sharon Symons Tel: 01562 883908 Midlothian VA 23112 Joanlea NORFOLK Fax: 01562 885101 The Mount Mrs. Mary Griffiths USA SOUTH WEST 20 Knyvett Green Par YORKSHIRE EAST Bill Bunning Ashwellthorpe Cornwall PL24 2BY Frank Hakney PO Box 5632, Irvine Norwich NR16 1HA 19 Church Street CA 92616-5632 Elloughton DERBYSHIRE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE East Yorkshire HU15 1HT. WALES Ron Duckett Dominic Johnson Tel: 01482 668340 WALES NORTH & MID Outwood Hills Farm 33 Redhill Lodge Drive See WALES SOUTH & WEST Lower Outwoods Road Red Hill YORKSHIRE NORTH Burton on Trent DE13 0QX Nottingham NG5 8JH Pete Redwood WALES SOUTH & WEST Tel: 01283 561557 The Garden Flat Geoff Riggs OXFORDSHIRE 36 Albemarle Crescent Peacehaven DEVON Dr. Wendy Archer Scarborough Badgers Meadow Elizabeth Holliday The Old Nursery Pwllmeyric Caradon North Yorkshire YO11 1XX Pump Lane North Chepstow Jubilee Road Marlow YORKSHIRE WEST Gwent NP6 6UE. Totnes Buckinghamshire SL7 3RD See Yorkshire East Tel: 01291 626417 Devon TQ9 5BW Tel: 01628 485013 IRELAND COORDINATOR DORSET SOMERSET Mick Merrigan See Hertfordshire Phil Sherwood Ken Dilkes Rock House 11 Desmond Avenue Clematis Cottage Dún Laoghaire WE have vacancies for 20 Belfield Park Avenue Whitstone Hill Regional Representatives in Weymouth DT4 9RE Co. Dublin Pilton BA4 4DX Tel: (353.1) 284-2711 the following areas: Tel: 01305 770820 STAFFORDSHIRE NEW ZEALAND BEDFORDSHIRE ESSEX See Derbyshire Mrs. Lily Baker CAMBRIDGESHIRE Jess Jephcott 905 Wall Road CHESHIRE 73 All Saints Avenue SURREY Hastings CUMBRIA Colchester CO3 4PA Martin Gegg DURHAM 4 Little Orchard SCOTLAND HAMPSHIRE GLOUCESTERSHIRE Woodham ABERDEEN LANCASHIRE Ken Grubb Addlestone KT15 3ED Peter Bellarby LEICESTERSHIRE 5 Victoria Mansions 13 Westfield Road LONDON Malvern Road SUSSEX EAST NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Cheltenham Stonehaven Richard Akhurst SHROPSHIRE Gloucestershire GL50 2JH Kincardineshire 95 Sea Road AB39 2EE SUFFOLK AUSTRALIA HEREFORDSHIRE East Preston SCOTLAND NORTH CANADA WEST Polly Rubery BN16 1LN Graham Tuley USA CENTRAL Medwam 26 Crown Drive USA NORTH EAST Edwyn Ralph SUSSEX WEST Inverness IV2 3NL. USA NORTH WEST Bromyard HR7 4LY Richard Chilvers Tel: 01463 230 446 Tel: 01885 483318 56 George Fifth Avenue Fax: 01463 230 446 WHY not devote just a little Mobile: 07774 245436 Worthing of your spare time to the BN11 5RL HERTFORDSHIRE SCOTLAND SOUTH Guild by becoming a Barbara Harvey Dr. James Floyd Regional Rep? Contact the WARWICKSHIRE 84 Pentland Terrace 15 Park Avenue Coordinator. Patricia Bliss Edinburgh EH10 6HF St. Albans AL1 4PB 22 Cheshire Avenue Tel: 0131 445 3906 Tel: 01727 865631 Shirley, Solihull West Midlands B90 2LJ V C “ G f A g f I S £ I G Q J J i r d i o n u n o S

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