St. James, Clerkenwell Paul Howes, in this new blog post, highlights what I consider to be the best aspect of One Name Studies. And Paul also offers the reader a challenge at the end of the blog! Read on.... One of the real benefits of conducting a One-Name Study (ONS) is that you stumble into aspects of social history of which you were broadly aware but the implications of which had perhaps not fully dawned on you. In my own ONS, for example, I have: - three African-Americans who were lynched in the early 1900s in Mississippi, making me much more conscious of the reasons why so many moved to places like Pittsburgh - early US immigrant families whose families took full advantage of the land of opportunity with large families, some of whom then moved West along the traditional migrant routes -British families who dispersed around the world and staffed up the Empire, many dying for king or queen and country. There are 720+ Howeses