Website updated 1 March 2011

Website updated today with lots more new data from all the contacts with whom I have spoken over the past month and record offices and libraries I have visited. Do look at the website.

WDYTYA Show live

Very successful day on Friday. Met lots of people interested in becoming a Guild member. Had a brief look around the exhibition and spent the rest of the time on the Guild stand, did you say hi? We had a busy, but most enjoyable day, but sadly the journey home took forever. Have since heard that over the three days we enrolled an amazing 47 new members at the show, 12 people took advantage of the special on line offer and 2 previous members rejoined. What an achievement. I am delighted to say 6 of these new members are within the Region that I look after so hopefully I will be meeting them in the very near future. Welcome to all 61 new members

WDYTYA Show live

Off to the WDYTYA show in Olympia on Friday. I will be helping out on the Guild of One-Name Studies Stand during the day.

Come and say hello

Eton College

Had a great afternoon visiting the Eton College library today where I inspected the Eton registers and several other documents found for me by the archivist. Will attempt to put everything on the database by the end of the month.

Maybe one more visit in due course

Visit to London History Centre

Took time out to go to the London History Centre today.

Just when are those road works going to be completed!!!

Managed to collect two more digital copies of post 1858 wills and some digital copies of TNA Documents on line documents as well as starting to research my St Kitts Greatheads

West Surrey FH meeting

I am talking about my One-Name Study at Camberley meeting of the West Surrey FHS this afternoon at 2pm.

Maybe see you there?

Regional Guild informal meeting

The Surrey and West London Guild of One-Name members held a very successful regional informal meeting last evening. We discussed how we save our data, and were given an excellent demonstration on how one of our band uses Excel.

Some interesting ideas came out and were circulated to the group. Next meeting 30 March

Guild of One-Name Studies - special offer

The following is a press release from the Guild of One-Name Studies:

The Guild of One-Name Studies is to offer a special extended membership to new joiners at the forthcoming Who Do You Think You Are? Live show being held in the UK at the Olympia, London on Friday 25 to Sunday 27 February 2011. Normally membership of the Guild costs £15.00 and covers a period of up to a year with renewal on 1st November 2011. This special extended membership will cost £20.00 but will include a full year's extra membership, renewal not being due until 1st November 2012. The aim of the scheme is to attract more new members and to encourage these members to stay with the Guild for longer and to appreciate and utilise the various benefits available to members. For people who cannot attend the Who Do You Think You Are? Live show, the special offer of an extended membership will be made available to them for a week from when the show opens on Friday 25 February 2011 on the Guild website at: www.one-name.org/specialoffer.html

Do come and say hello on the Guild Stand during Friday

Surrey History Centre

Spent the day today at the Surrey History Centre collecting details of some marriages requested by Guild members that we (the Blackwater Valley One-Name study group) have identified as taking place at St Andrews Church in Farnham.

I hope to complete the list I have in a couple of weeks, when I visit again