FOUNDER members of the Guild, who were among those who joined at the very outset in 1979, pictured at the 25th Anniversary Conference and AGM at Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire. Standing, left to right, are: Philip Lloyd, Michael Dalton, Michael Egerton, President Derek Palgrave, Vol 8 Issue 7 July–September 2004 David Hawgood, Ernest Hamley, Iain Swinnerton and David Gynes. Seated, left to right: Penny Pattinson, Pamela Palgrave, Pauline Litton, Mary Griffiths and Pauline Pedersen. ❍ Oxford DNA Seminar 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. 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 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 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.