Richard Scantlebury describes his experience with some Coastguard and naval resources and found a Ruby or two. Richard's blog illustrates a nother benefit of this Ruby study . Project volunteers not only visit new corners of the world but also new corners of genealogical data with the result that as they share these new sources, the Guild's entire membership can benefit. Ever since the early days of my family history research which prompted my One Name Study of Scantlebury I’ve had more than a passing interest in the Royal Navy and Coastguards mainly because both my Great-grandfather John Bartley Scantlebury & his father John were Coastguards. Sometime after I volunteered with the Ruby one name study I had a look to see if any Rubys were Coastguards using the following site: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Coastguards . Basically it has used occupations from various censuses to create a coastguard listing. I found Reuben Ruby in the 1861 Census in Ho