The following announcement was written by the Guild of One-Name Studies:
The Guild of One-Name Studies is delighted to announce the completion of a thorough update of their website dedicated to one-name studies – www.one-name.org, which went live on 29th March 2009.
Click on Find out more about us! on the home page and you will find answers to the following questions:
- What is the Guild?
- How can the Guild help me?
- Why should I join the Guild?
- Membership benefits
- How do I join the Guild?
- How do I register a surname?
- Who runs the Guild?
- How do I contact the Guild?
- How can I help?
- Guild Constitution
- Further links take you to a wealth of information on One-Name Studies.
As well as a creating a bright new ‘look & feel’, our Webmaster, Anne Shankland, has massively increased the material now available to the public - on One-Name Studies in general and the Guild in particular.
In accordance with our declared charitable objective of ‘Educating the Public in One-Name Studies’ we have released a significant amount of material previously only available to Guild members. This complements our archive of over 100 Guild Journals which was made available to the public earlier this year.
The Guild website now has two search engines, one for finding “Names“ currently registered with the Guild, and a second to search the rest of the website, including the Archive of Guild Journals.
Ken Toll, the Guild’s Marketing Manager, said today
In accordance with our declared charitable objective of ‘Educating the Public in One-Name Studies’ we have released a significant amount of material previously only available to Guild members. This complements our archive of over 100 Guild Journals which was made available to the public earlier this year.
The Guild website now has two search engines, one for finding “Names“ currently registered with the Guild, and a second to search the rest of the website, including the Archive of Guild Journals.
Ken Toll, the Guild’s Marketing Manager, said today
“The material now available on our website is a significant development in the Guild’s aim to increase the facilities targeted at its charitable aim of advancing the education of the public in one-name studies. There can be no doubt now that the Guild of One-Name Studies is the world leader in one-name studies, and this update is further evidence of the Guild’s desire to reach potential members across the world”.
It's been a while since I've visited this site. This time I'd hoped that POWELL was among their collection. I suppose I'm the one to register the surname, since both my parents were POWELLs. I've spent over 30 years looking for a genetic connection between Da and Mum and have found two common ancestors, neither of whom were POWELLs, nor within 3 centuries of my parents' births.
Along the way, I've amassed several binders of "false" leads. Perhaps through the Guild my data may help another.
Happy Dae·
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Posted by: Dae Powell | April 18, 2009 at 01:07 AM