Saturday 30 March 2013

U.K. RESEARCH FINDINGS DISPLAYED

Good news is that Pat has updated the REYNISH archive on the Guild of One-Name Studies website. See...

http://www.one-name.org/archives/reynish.html

It is now an open archive (i.e. no need to register with Pat in order to see it). Anyone can use it.

Pat has added to BIRTHS index from 1837 to 2006 and will shortly add any christenings or baptisms she can find to correspond with these births.

Also MARRIAGES have entries have increased from 1837 to 2005. Several of these marriages have full details with them so be sure to pan well to the right and click on "Details" for this information. If you are willing to donate any  information on the marriages that have no details it would be really good if you could contact Pat on reynish@one-name.org

Also DEATHS from 1837 to 2005 are upgraded. Burials will be added shortly for some of them.

You can now make a "General Search" across all the records on this site. See at the bottom of "Contents of Reynish Archive". So for example if you enter "James REYNISH" you will see the number of entries for that name collected SO FAR and you can click on these numbers to access the records. These include all the censuses from 1841 to 1911 in UK as well as probate and adoptions and of course the BMDs mentioned already.

Bad news is that Pat regretfully cannot organise a REYNISH reunion in October 2013, as she had hoped, due to family circumstances. Her 99 year old mother, brother and husband all have health problems. So instead there will be a concentration to add to this archive as much as possible in the coming months.

The committee of the Guild of One-Name Studies request that all its members nominate someone to take on the archive in the event of the member's death or incapacity. This nomination would be done legally in Pat's will. A volunteer or volunteers would be welcomed. She is not giving up just yet but would like to know of someone who is interested....to contact her see:
http://www.one-name.org/profiles/reynish.html