Blogging From A to Z Challenge – Wait for It! Posted 31 March 2017 by Tessa KeoughEvery April bloggers the world over sign up for the Blogging From A to Z Challenge. It’s an opportunity to blog every day during April (well almost every day) using the letters A to Z. For 2017 the Guild is going to step up to the plate and blog about our wonderful Guild Website using the letters A to Z. Why not follow along and learn a bit about Website features that are obvious and not so obvious. Please come back tomorrow when we kick things off with the letter A. It’s official – we are part of the A-Z challenge!
The Guild Conference welcomes Michelle Patient Posted 18 March 2017 by Julie GoucherMichelle Patient is a genealogist, embroiderer and a geek with a degree in Pure and Applied Chemistry and technical qualifications in Geology. Michelle has a love of data, facts and research. Working for many years in civil engineering laboratories before moving into programming databases for marketing projects, she has spoken to various community and work-related groups since the 1970’s. She started researching her mother’s birth family back in the early 1990’s and became seriously addicted to genealogy research over a wet Sydney Christmas at the end of 1999. Growing up with an elder grandmother’s stories and being given her photos in 1999 started the roller coaster ride that has become her genealogy research journey. Michelle’s science and engineering background has helped her develop research tips which she shares regularly with the wider genealogy community in face to face presentations, in magazines, and over the Internet. Michelle’s articles have been published in various magazines including: Sydney PC Users Group magazine PrintScreen, Information for New Users (IfNu) column, Australian Family Tree Connection Magazine, Inside History, the Royal Australian Historical Society’s History Magazine, The New Zealand Genealogist and the Journal of One Name Studies. She has volunteered in various roles within the genealogy community, both in Australia and New Zealand including President of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists 2012 – 2014 and New Zealand Regional Representative for the Guild of One-Name Studies 2015 – present and Education Committee Member Society of Australian Genealogists. Shackles, Shekels and Shrapnel, the Exodus to the Southern Seas Since the late 1700s there have been various waves of migration from the Northern Hemisphere to the “new lands” in the Southern Seas. Michelle will explore migration waves, the records they created and where to find them. Michelle will be presenting at the Guild of One-Name Studies conference on Saturday 1st April 2017. Non-members are welcome and booking is currently still open. Presentations will be available to Guild members after the event.
Genealogy, Surnames and Pharos! Posted 15 March 2017 by Julie Goucher The Guild has a longstanding relationship with Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Limited, as Pharos offers two courses about One-Name Studies, an Introductory course and an Advanced course. Pharos is run by Helen Osborn a Guild member and author of Genealogy: Essential Research Methods. Both Helen and the Guild received some great feedback on Monday that is well worth sharing with our readers. A lady called Yvonne walked into her local library in Romsey…..here is what Yvonne had to say: “I went to my local library in Romsey on Tuesday. I saw your book on display – a lovely new book with an academic title, Genealogy – Essential Research Methods. I idly thought “how interesting, I’ve often wondered about doing some genealogy”. I borrowed the book, read to page 20, followed your reference to Guild of One Name Studies, found my mother’s maiden name, emailed the researcher and within 24 hours he had sent me incredibly detailed 36 pages of the entire family tree going back to 1678! I am still astonished at this and can only thank you for this wonderful result, obtained by a few computer clicks and an email. Other parts of my family tree will be very difficult – my father was a Jewish refugee from Vienna in 1938. Thanks again. Kind regards Yvonne W” For those of you wondering, the family name that Yvonne was interested in was CAWTHRA. Do you have them in your ancestry? If you do, please get in touch. Have you looked to see if your family surnames are being studied by Guild members? Published with permission of Yvonne and Helen at Pharos.
TNG project roundtable chat for March 2017 Posted 15 March 2017 by Jim Benedict Sorry, this page is for Guild members only. If you are a member, please log in. If you are not currently a member, find out how to join.