Vol 8 Issue 5 January–March 2004 Featured in webwatch... Digital Library of Historical Directories Plus... Making the most of online search engines Reports of the Epsom Internet and Halsted Trust Seminars The world’s leading publication for one-namers GUILD OFFICERS CHAIRMAN Box G, 14 Charterhouse Buildings Ken Toll Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA 20 North Road E-mail: [email protected] Three Bridges Website: www.one-name.org W Sussex RH10 1JX Registered as a charity in England 01293 404986 and Wales No. 802048 [email protected] Guild information 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. 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Publications Roy Stockdill ISSN 0262-4842 Seminars Roy Rayment © Journal of One-Name Studies MAIN ARTICLES 6 Many surname variants are really misspelt deviants – COVER STORY DEREK PALGRAVE on difficulties associated with the multiplicity of surname spellings 10 Make the most out of online search engines to aid your one-name research ROB ALEXANDER with the first of a two-part series about online essentials 12 Business card that travelled across three continents and 100 years VALDA SHRIMPTON tells a fascinating tale of a tiny artefact from her one-name study 14 Impressive directories collection could do with a better search engine – COVER STORY In our regular webwatch feature, HOWARD BENBROOK looks at the University of Leicester’s Digital Library of Historical Records GUILD REPORTS • NEWS • EVENTS 17 Something for everyone at Halsted Trust Seminar on Introducing the Guild 18 A day at the races (or the Internet Seminar at Epsom) 19 Put dates in your diary for Newspapers and DNA Seminars 21 Have your one-name gathering poster at the FRC 22 Guild’s 2004 Conference covers topics you have asked for 23 Family reunions – Glenister gathering report • Dates for Jackett and P*rr*tt events One-Name Publications Award 24 Scottish Association of Family History Societies • President’s appeal for armorial bearings wins some support • New Committee member REGULARS 4 Chairman’s Notes KEN TOLL 5 Just My Opinion ROY STOCKDILL 20 A View From The Bookstall HOWARD BENBROOK 21 Registrar’s Notes ROGER GOACHER 25 Reviews of new genealogy books and CDs 26 Letters to The Journal – Your views on issues in the one-name world ARTICLES, letters and other contributions are welcomed from members, especially accompanied by illustrations, and should be sent to the Editor. Publication dates will normally be the first day of January, April, July and October. Copyright of material is to the Editor and Publishers of the Journal of One- Name Studies and the author. No material may be reproduced in part or in whole without the prior permission of the publishers. The views expressed in the Journal are those of individual contributors and are not necessarily those of the Committee of the Guild of One-Name Studies. 3 Sometimes sorry can be the hardest word... his edition is some- give a full account of the size address labels were packed what embarrassing for of the problem and its resolu- into some envelopes. The result me, as I have to apol- tion in the April Journal. has been that at least 34 UK ogise in these Notes to members failed to get their a number of members for sev- Oops – an upside Journal and the situation for eral things that are, to a large overseas members may be degree, outside my direct down view from worse. control. the Members’ Again, I apologise to those affected. If you still have not 1881 census maps Handbook! received your October Journal, and discs project then please get in touch with Firstly, I apologise to the Now to the second problem me, and I’ll arrange for one to small, but significant, number that beset us. Thanks to Roger be sent. of members who are still wait- Goacher, Janet Heskins and We have, of course, learnt ing for their 1881 census maps others, we now have a Mem- from these problems and will or discs that they paid for. bers’ Handbook, which was endeavour to avoid them in Many of you are aware that delivered to existing members future. this project, which was with the October Journal. launched several years ago, has Unfortunately, a few of the Change of Sales been beset with problems. 2,000 or so handbooks were Manager Your Committee and I have printed with pages 9 and 16 At last I can move on to been working with the Project rotated! I have been in contact some brighter news. In order Manager, trying to bring this with the printer and they have to centralise sales activities project to a successful conclu- apologised profusely. I shall be within the Guild, we have sion for far longer than we meeting them in early 2004 to appointed Howard Benbrook would have wished. discuss this and other issues. as Sales Manager. We thought that, despite While only about 14 copies He will now use the book- the delays, everything had now have been identified so far, I stall stock to increase items been delivered. It was not until appreciate how irritating it will available for mail order, so that it was discussed on the Guild be the members concerned. I those unable to attend Guild Forum in November that it apologise if your copy is events can buy from the Book- became clear that there were affected. Please contact me stall by post. still a few problems. and I will arrange for a replace- Howard takes over from Ron ment to be sent to you. Duckett, who has given many Contact outstanding years of service to If any member believes they Journal mailing the Guild. Ron will continue to are still owed goods or services The final problem was hold his current stock and will they have paid for, will they caused by a sub-contractor of fulfil orders passed to him from please contact me direct at our printer, who now does the Howard. [email protected], or to enveloping and packaging of Ron, a long-standing mem- my address in the front of the the Journal and the various ber, has initiated and partici- Journal, with information on other items that go out to pated in many Guild projects what they ordered and when, members with it. This had over the years and we are dee- and I will endeavour to resolve worked reasonably well until ply indebted to him. the problems. the October mailing. I would like to add my per- At the time of writing I am advised that this is an sonal thanks to Ron for all he (November 23 2003) 21 Forum automated process but, unfor- has done – and continues to do subscribers were affected. I will tunately, two name and – for the Guild. ❍ 4 Journal of One-Name Studies, January–March 2004 The pleasures and the pain of deciding between variants and deviants! S our Guild President, cry! However, all my researches in in believing them not to be genu- Derek Palgrave, points sources like the IGI, census ine variants but errors of spelling out in his fascinating returns and parish registers, etc., and/or transcription or, as Derek and comprehensive arti- tend to show that easily the calls them, deviants. cle over the ensuing four pages largest number of instances of And then, of course, we enter of this Journal, many of what we variants of STOCKDALE are for still murkier waters when we get believe to be genuine variants of STOCKDILL and STOGDALE. names that are similar to, or our registered surname are Indeed, these are the only three share an element with, our regis- actually nothing of the sort. names that appear in Reaney and tered surname.