RUBY One-Name Study : studying the Ruby surname across the world

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.   The...

This month, the Guild acknowledged an important date in the history of our organisation. The quote below came from the Rayment Society , which is, as you might expect a surname registered with the Guild. “Saturday 13th May 1978 The first one-name conference opened at the Grand Hotel in Leicester, England, where a formal resolution was carried unanimously to establish a Guild of individuals engaged in one-name research” So, the Guild of One-Name Studies steps into the pathway of our year leading up to our 40 th Birthday. For those who are familiar with the use of gem stones to, represent typically wedding anniversaries will know that recently the Guild launched the Ruby One-Name Study in celebration of our 40 th year of existence.   About 18 months ago several Committee members began work on a “starting your one-name” article. That very quickly morphed into a set of web page about starting a study, and you can read them HERE . One of the most important...