“Cornucopia” Seminar

Littleton Millennium Memorial Hall, The Hall Way, Littleton, Winchester, Hampshire SO22 6QL

09:30 for 10:00 a.m. on Saturday 15th August 2015

Returning south, this seminar will include older records at Hampshire Record Office as a subject for visitors from outside the area. For those who have missed our computer seminars we have added sessions on computer programmes suitable for a one-name study and software queries utilising breakout groups.

Programme

09:30 – 10:00	Arrival: Registration and Coffee
10:00 – 10:10	Welcome to the Seminar – Rod Clayburn
10:10 – 11:10	Old Hampshire Records – Les Mitchinson (LMentary Family History)
11:10 – 11:15	Comfort Break
11:15 – 12:15	Family Historian for One-Name Studies – Jane Taubman
12:15 – 13:15	Lunch Break
13:15 – 14:15	Custodian –Richard Scantlebury
14:15 – 14:20	Comfort break
14:20 – 15:05	Break-Out – Session 1
15:05 – 15:30	Tea Break
15:30 – 16:15	Break-Out – Session 2
16:15 – 16:45	Final Question and Answer Session
16:45	Close of Seminar

 

Break-out sessions are planned to include advanced Family Historian, further Custodian, Excel, TMG – upon booking delegates will be contacted for feedback on their preferences.

Applications to attend are welcome from Guild members, family historians, genealogists, and members of the general public having an interest in the subject matter.

Seminar cost including refreshments and buffet lunch is £16.00.

We would like to ensure that any disabled delegate can participate fully in this event.

If you will be travelling by train please contact us for help finding a lift from Winchester station.

Anyone with any special requirements should telephone the Guild Help Desk on 0800 011 2182 or email seminar-booking@guild-dev.org.

An Accommodation Listing is available.

Winchester Joining Instructions will be available here prior to the seminar.

Booking

To book on this seminar, you can use our online form¹ in any of three ways:

• Book online and pay online via PayPal or credit card;
• For Guild members, book online and pay by direct bank transfer through your bank, quoting the reference number on the form (this is the method which represents the least cost to the Guild);
• Fill in the booking form online, then print it and send it through the post with your cheque.

Alternatively, you can download our flyer booking form, which can be printed, filled-in, and posted, with a cheque to:
Alan Moorhouse, [Seminar Bookings], 8 Strachans Close, STROUD, Gloucestershire, GL5 3EB.

Bookings close on 2nd August 2015. All bookings will be confirmed by email, with full joining instructions, on or before this date.

Further information may be obtained by telephoning the Guild HelpDesk on 0800 011 2182, or by email from seminar-booking@guild-dev.org

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¹Please note, when booking on a seminar either by post or online, the Guild’s “Distance Selling” terms and conditions.

Other events

For details of other events organised by the Guild, go to the Events Calendar.

Surname Atlas has been updated to Version 1.20 and will be available at the “Who Do You Think You Are? Live show Birmingham, on 16th to 18th April 2015. Visit the Guild of One-Name Studies tables T7 to T9 and purchase a copy at a price of £15.00 (£13.50 to Guild members). The revised version of Surname Atlas is also available to purchase online from the Guild of One-Name Studies website Sales page.

Surname Atlas plots surname and first name data from the 1881 Census. This is the simplest tool to use to demonstrate a surname distribution in Great Britain, and is regularly demonstrated at Fairs attended by the Guild of One-Name Studies. Even non-genealogists can get hooked! The Atlas can display at county level or at Poor-Law Union level, using absolute numbers or relative frequency. The British 19th Century Surname Atlas is a fully interactive CD-Rom product that allows you to plot distribution maps for all of the surnames and forenames found in the 1881 Census of England, Scotland, and Wales. These are some of the features of Surname Atlas:

• Plot any of the 140,000+ surnames and variants that appear in the 1881 Census. In many cases the maps will indicate the probable geographical origin of a surname.
• Plot any of the 160,000+ forenames, and view their popularity through time.
• Aggregate data by county or Poor-Law Union
• Plot data as actual numbers, or as density (per 100,000 of the population)
• Show one or four surname maps at any one time
• Zoom and pan the maps to frame exactly the area you want to see
• Print maps, or export to the Windows clipboard
• County Surnames tab added – identifies which surnames have a higher total percentage in a particular county than any other county.
• Exports a map via the clipboard, including the map keys (i.e. the coloured boxes with associated values)
• Results tab allows display of numbers as colour-coded histogram bars

Version V1.20 has added more detailed mapping of surnames & forenames in Scotland, down to district level (previously to county level only); coastlines are in greater detail; improvements to syntax & placement of some area labels and further ‘default’ views added (Scotland, Wales).

Upgrade from earlier versions of Surname Atlas

If you have an earlier version of Surname Atlas and want to upgrade, please place an order with Steve Archer http://www.archersoftware.co.uk/orderfrm.htm and return the front card insert with order £5.00 (UK); €10.00 (Europe) or $10.00 (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and USA).

Steve Archer, author of Surname Atlas, said today:
“Surname Atlas is a must-have for the people undertaking family history research who want to show the distribution of their surnames. For people with an interest in Scottish surnames, the new version of Surname Atlas is even more useful than before.”