Genealogy Chat

It is always worth checking to see if your surname is here.

http://www.one-name.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?find=M

Or a variation of it.

You can use the alphabetical listing and scroll down the names that way rather than just using the name look up screen.

Plus, us GOONers do tend to collect info on very similar names to our "names" so it is always worth asking if someone is doing a close match.

Jill

A good tip, but from experience don't expect them to have all the answers at their fingertips. Like everything in this world, some are far better than others.

One I contacted took six months to reply, although to be fair I think he had been tied up on other matters, and whilst he did proffer what seemed at the time to be useful leads, most were false starts leading no-where.

................... and then yu have the one who ran the ONS on my father's name


never replied to any emails I sent 4 to 5 years ago.

Last year I really really needed to contact him. By that time he had removed his email contact, so I had to send a letter PLUS 3 International Reply coupons to cover the cost of his reply (that was $30 or ca £15)

Never replied over a period of 4 months.


I contacted the Registrar, as the site itself says. He told me to wait another 2 months.

The Registrar then tried contacting him to reply to me

No success over 3 months, either to me or the Registrar


so the guy was kicked out, and the name removed from the site.

Other people researching the same name say that he has lost all interest in genealogy


I do now know why

I have the evidence that proves he "stole" most of the work from someone else

..... and I all unwittingly told him about while trying to establish my own credentials.





he was my own second cousin




sylvia

Sheesh, Sylvia, some of us have to go back generations to find crooks in our closets! Did you know that at the time??

I was just browsing there the other day, and none of my immediate surnames is covered. :( Fortunately I did run into someone right at the beginning of my quest who'd been doing an unofficial ONS of Monck for decades!

Hi Janey


I had an idea right back at the beginning that he was my second cousin ......................... but I thought he was the one who had done a lot of work with my brother back in the 1980s (both have names that begin with D)

That's how I let him know that I knew the brother had done all the work because I referred to him and my brother and to a 20 page family tree that I owned that the brother had produced

There was a family of 5 brothers and one sister

They've split up into two warring groups! 4 brothers on one side and the sister and this "crook" on the other


I found out what he had done because the remaining 3 brothers have all started tracing the family history ........ and are re-doing all the work because the one brother lost everything to the other, who won't share it.

Each of the 3 made contact with me through GR ................ and the last one told me the story.


Apparently the theft of the work is part of what contributed to the family split.



I did think about trying to meet up with the 3 younger ones when we were back in the UK last year ..........but decided against it!!


Families!


sylvia

There are many occasions when I am glad that I have no brothers or sisters, and know that all my research is mine.

Margaret

Margaret


I feel somewhat like you!


My brother died in 1990 and left only a few notes

I acquired the 20 page family history from my first cousins in Australia who had maintained contact with their brother in the UK, and hence with the second cousins above ....... especially the one who really did do all the work.


Everything I have in my tree has been double checked and documented by me as far as I possibly can ...... even though it is all on the net, and was on One Name Study.



sylvia

My own limited experience of the GOONS is that they seem to be only interested in the information you can give THEM !!

I beg to differ Elizabeth!

Whilst it is great (as a GOONer) to receive info from others - it's equally satisfying to be able to help them or point them in the right direction at least.

If anyone wants info from my ONS I am only too happy to share it - and most other GOONers are the same.

If you do happen to come across a "rogue" GOONer then report them. The Society wants to present a professional face to genealogists (amateur or otherwise). They do not approve of GOONers who do not help when requested.

Jill

Jill

I was pretty impressed with the Registrar of the GOONs ..... he went out of his way to get that second cousin to help me ......... and the cousin was "expelled" because he had not held to the rule that all contacts must be responded to within a "reasonable" time.

I was told that reasonable time would be about 3 months in the UK, but, as I was overseas, the Registrar asked me to wait 6 months before contacting him again and then he would himself try to find out what was going on.


I gather my second cousin did not in fact respond to the Registrar at any time .............. the Registrars' emails to me expressed a certain amount of frustration!



sylvia

Just to add that my husband has no brothers or sisters either. It does make one's research so much more safe.

Margaret