Seminars OnlineGuild of one name studiesThe Seminar Sub Committee has organized a series of four webinars with a theme of Your Ancestors in Print they will run weekly starting on the 27th January at 20:00 hours UK time. They will be available to watch via the Guild website after the event recording has processed and uploaded. You will need to book for the events individually the Seminars events web page
<https://one-name.org/?email_id=172&user_id=2658&urlpassed=aHR0cHM6Ly9vbmUtbmFtZS5vcmcvc2VtaW5hci1ldmVudHMv&controller=stats&action=analyse&wysija-page=1&wysijap=subscriptions>. Booking will open on the 15th January.
The full program is as follows
January 27thSpeaker: Else Churchill Genealogist, Society of Genealogists, London
Topic: Directories and Poll Books: Name-rich resources for the long 18th century in the library of the Society of Genealogists and elsewhere
February 3rdSpeaker: Aoife O'Connor Head of Project and Programme Management at FindMyPast and the British Newspaper Archive
Topic: News from Home: finding the diaspora in newspapers
February 10thSpeaker: Julie Anne Lambert Librarian of the John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford
Topic: Ephemeral Names: printed ephemera as a resource for one-name historians with particular reference to the John Johnson Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford
February 17thSpeaker: Michelle Patient Genealogist and one of the DNA consultants for the Australian SBS TV series Every Family has a Secret.
Topic: In Print - Here, There and Everywhere: Newspaper Collections in National Libraries worldwide.