W.I.S.E. Words Index 1999-2015 f W.I.S.E. Words is the quarterly newsletter published by the W.I.S.E. Family History Society, Denver. Index compiled by Zoe Lappin, 2016 Table of Contents, 1999 edition Names . 1 Places . .2 Topics . 2 Book Reviews and Mentions . 3 Feature Articles . 3 Table of Contents, 2000-2015 editions Names . 5 Places . 25 Topics . 32 Book Reviews and Mentions . 41 Feature Articles . 48 W.I.S.E. Seminars . 50 WISE-fhs.org W.I.S.E. Words Index 1999-2015 W.I.S.E. Words Index 1999-2015 Campbell, Robert Issue 3: 6 1999 Celestine, Pope Issue 2: 6 Charles, Lewis Issue 2: 4 W.I.S.E. Family History Society – Wales, Charles, Mary Issue 2: 4, 5; Issue 4: 4, 5 Ireland, Scotland, England based in Denver, Crown, James Issue 4: 4 Colorado -- began publishing a newsletter in January 1999. Its title was W.I.S.E. Drummond Issue 3: 5 Drummond clan Issue 3: 4 Newsletter and it was a bimonthly publication Drummond, Donald MacGregor Issue 3: 4 of eight pages. Each issue started with page 1 and ended with page 8; there was no Forby, George Issue 1: 4 continuous numbering throughout the year. It lasted one year and in January 2000, the Gregor clan Issue 3: 4 society started over, publishing a quarterly Gregor, King of Picts & Scots Issue 3: 5 with a new format and new name, W.I.S.E. Griffiths, Griffith Issue 4: 4 Words, as it’s been known ever since. Hughes, Mary Issue 4: 4 Both versions, however, started with Volume Jeffrey, James Issue 2: 3; Issue 4: 1; Issue 5: 3; 1, Issue 1. Here is the index for the six issues Issue 6: 5 of the 1999 volume only. It’s organized by Jones, Berwyn Issue 6: 5 issue and page, like this: Issue 1: 4. The index for subsequent volumes follows Kilburn, Paul Issue 2: 3; Issue 3: 2, 4 this one starting at the “new” Volume 1 with King Langhaire Issue 2: 6 newsletter pages numbered consecutively throughout each year. Please pardon the Lleyn, Ieuan Issue 2: 4 confusion. Lord of the Isles Issue 2: 3, 6 W.I.S.E. Words has been digitized and posted Maas, Jane & Michael Issue 6: 5 in PDF form online at the WISE website, MacDonald Issue 2: 6 WISE-fhs.org, These are fully searchable. MacGregor, Alexander Issue 3: 4, 5 This index also is posted there. All editions MacGregor, family Issue 3: 2, 5 are bound and housed at the Denver Public MacGregor, Gregor Issue 3: 5 Library genealogy collection or a researcher MacGregor, Rob Roy Issue 3: 2 may contact Zoe Lappin for a photocopy of MacGregor(s) of Roro Issue 3: 2, 4, 6 an article. She may be reached at MacIain clan Issue 2: 3, 6 [email protected] The society does not Maewn, aka St. Patrick Issue 2: 5 conduct research. Maewn (?), Darerca Issue 2: 5 Maewn (?), Lupida Issue 2: 5 NAMES Marc, Siarl Issue 4: 2, 6 Angus, Og Issue 2: 3, 6 Mark, Charles Issue 2: 4; Issue 4: 2, 4, 5 Argyll, Earl of Issue 2: 6 McKeen Issue 2: 6 McGregor, Richard Issue 3: 2, 5 Betit, Kyle J. Issue 6: 4 Muchdragan MacRi Lochlunn Issue 2: 3 Boatwright, Sharon Issue 1: 5 Brown, Elizabeth “Betty” Issue 2: 4, 5; Parry, Eleanor Issue 4: 5 Issue 4: 1, 2, 4, 5 Pearson, Ann Lisa Issue 1: 2; Issue 2: 2, 3; Issue 3: 1; Issue 4: No page number; Campbell Issue 2: 6; Issue 3: 4, 5 Issue 5: 2; Issue 6: 2 Campbell, Duncan Issue 3: 4 Porter, Donna Issue 2: 3; Issue 4: 3 Pritchard, Evan (var.) Issue 2: 4, 6 W.I.S.E. Words Index 1999-2015 NAMES, continued Glen Lyon Issue 3: 5 Glenorchy Issue 3: 4, 5 Quirke, Terence T. Issue 1: 3; Issue 2: 1; Gretna Green Issue 6: 8 Issue 6: 4, 5 Gwynedd Family History Society Issue 4: 2, 6 Radford, Dwight A. Issue 6: 4 Innerwick Issue 3: 6 Rhisiard, Evan (var.) Issue 2: 4 Isle of Eigg Issue 2: 6 Rob Roy Issue 3: 2, 5 Isle of Muck Issue 2: 6 Roberts, Gordon Issue 4: 2, 6 Isle of Mull Issue 2: 3 Rowlands, John and Sheila Issue 4: 2, 6 Isle of Rhum Issue 2: 6 Ryan, James G. Issue 1: 3 Isle of Skye Issue 2: 3 Sprangaich, John Iain Issue 2: 3 Kilchoan, Scotland Issue 2: 3 St. Patrick Issue 2: 5, 6 Killin Issue 3: 4 St. Thomas Issue 2: 4 Stockdill, Roy Issue 1: 5 Llantwit Major, Wales Issue 2: 5 Lln/Lleyn Peninsula Issue 4: 5 Thomas, Didymus Issue 4: 4 Loch Doine Issue 3: 2 Thomas, John Richard Issue 4: 5 Loch Sunart Issue 2: 6 Thomas, Mary Issue 2: 5 Loch Tay Issue 3: 2, 4, 5 Thomas, Richard Issue 2: 4, 5; Issue 4: 4, 5 Loch Voil Issue 3: 2 Thomas, Thomas Issue 4: 4 Lyon, Loch, Glen & River Issue 3: 5, 6 Tranter, Nigel Issue 2: 6; Issue 3: 2 MacGregor’s Leap Issue 3: 5 PLACES Meggernie Castle Issue 3: 6 Adoronnack, Scotland Issue 3: 2 Mingary/Mingery Castle Issue 2: 3, 6 Ardeonaig, Scotland Issue 3: 2, 4, 5 Ardnamurchan, Scotland Issue 2: 3, 6 Remsen, Oneida County, NY Issue 4: 2 Roro, Scotland Issue 3: 2, 4- 6 Balgie Bridge Issue 3: 6 Roromore (var.), Scotland Issue 3: 6 Ballnahald Issue 3: 6 Ballymoney, Antrim, Ireland Issue 2: 6 Steuben, Oneida County, NY Issue 4: 4 Balmenoch Issue 3: 6 Balquhidder, Scotland Issue 3: 2 Trossachs/Trossocks Issue 3: 2, 4, 6 Ben Hiant Issue 2: 6 British depositories Issue 4: 3 British Navy Issue 4: 4 TOPICS Bryncroes/Byncroes, Wales Issue 2: 4; Addresses of pertinent resources Issue 6: 3 Issue 4: 2, 4-6 Anglo-Saxon land terminology Issue 1: 4 Brynorgas, Caernarvonshire, North Wales Issue 4: 2 British Isles Genealogical (BIG) Register Issue 5: 2, 5 Caernarvonshire/Canarfonshire, (var.) Wales, Issue 2: 4; Issue 4: 2, 4, 6 Center for British Studies, University of Capel Ucha Cemetery, Remsen, NY Issue 4: 4 Colorado at Boulder Issue 5: 3 Cloyne, Diocese of Issue 2: 1 Clan Gregor Society Issue 3: 2 Culcrieff Issue 3: 4 Gretna Green marriage records Issue 6: 8 Fortingall Issue 3: 5 Institute of Heraldic & Genealogical Studies, UK Issue 6: 8 W.I.S.E. Words Index 1999-2015 TOPICS, continued FEATURE ARTICLES Ireland, England marriage records Issue 6: 8 “MacGregor of Ardeonaig” by Paul Kilburn Ireland Heritage Centres Issue 1: 5 Issue 3:4 Irish records research Issue 1: 3; Issue 6: 4, 8 “MacIain Clan of Ardnamurchan, Scotland” Irish vital records Issue 5: 4 by Paul Kilburn Issue 2: 3 Irish wills Issue 6: 5 “St. Patrick, a Welshman” by Betty Brown Issue 2: 5 Land terminology Issue 1: 4 “Where Oh Where is Roro?” by Paul Kilburn Issue 3: 2 New books at DPL Issue 1: 6, 7; Issue 2: 7; Issue 3: 7; Issue 5: 3; Issue 6: 3 Ordnance Survey maps Issue 1: 4 Picts & Scots Issue 3: 5 Prevoyance Issue 4: 4 Society of Genealogists, London Issue 1: 2 Victorian Ordnance Maps Issue 1: 2 Websites for British Isles genealogy Issue 1: 3, 4, 5; Issue 4: 3; Issue 5: 3 Welsh in Colorado Issue 6: 5 Welsh research Issue 4: 2 Welsh surnames Issue 2: 4 BOOK REVIEWS & MENTIONS Asterisk * denotes full review *Christmas in Wales: A Homecoming by Jane & Michael Maas Issue 6: 5 Dictionary of Welsh Biography Down to 1940 Issue 4: 2, 6 Emigrants from Gwynedd to the United States . 1805-1932 by Gordon Roberts Issue 4: 6 *Ireland, A Genealogical Guide, The Irish at Home and Abroad by Kyle J. Betit & Dwight A. Radford Issue 6: 4 *Irish Records: Sources for Family and Local History, 2nd edition, by James G. Ryan, Issue 1: 3 Lord of the Isles by Nigel Tranter Issue 2: 6 MacGregor Trilogy by Nigel Tranter Issue 3: 2 *Rhyming Relations: Genealogy In Verse by Roy Stockdill Issue 1: 5 Surnames of Wales by Sheila and John Rowlands Issue 4: 2, 6 W.I.S.E. Words Index 1999-2015 W.I.S.E. Words Index 1999-2015 Armour, Jean Vol 6: 11 2000-2015 Arres, Marriot/Mariota 4: 27 Arthur, King Vol 15: 14, 62 W.I.S.E. Words is the quarterly publication Asquith, Herbert Henry Vol 3: 14, 17; Vol 12: 1 of W.I.S.E. Family History Society in Denver, Aston, Ellen Vol 2: 20 Colorado. It is devoted to study and Atchison, Margaret Jane Vol 6: 6, 8 understanding of families in Wales, Ireland, Atkinson Vol 3: 20 Scotland and England and their descendants. Attridge, James Vol 14: 64 The society does not do research. Audley Vol 15: 16 Volume numbers are in bold-face type, page Austin, Ann Frances Vol 10: 7 numbers are in light-face type: Vol 3: 20. Avery, Hannah Minor Vol 13: 32 Volume 1 covers 2000, volume 2 covers 2001 and so forth. Baddock Vol 15: 32 Baden-Powell, Lord Vol 13: 25, 27 Pages are numbered consecutively Baldwin Vol 4: 26 throughout each volume, e.g., if the issue for Baker Vol 4: 12 the first quarter ends on page 18, the next Baker, Barbara Vol 12: 9, 41, 57, 61; Vol 13: 28 issue begins with page 19. Balfour, Arthur James Vol 3: 4 Ball, Raymond Vol 3: 36 W.I.S.E.