Reunion and One Name Studies

[Allsop]

Re: Reunion and One Name Studies

Keith's advice is spot on. I really would advise joining the Guild as then you can look at the advice (try the Guild Wiki), maybe have a couple of months or so getting a better idea of what the project would involve and then see if you'd like to register your surname.
As for the databases, you're very welcome to have a copy of mine but they're in Filemaker, not Bento. If you don't have Filemaker, you can download a demo version to see if it fits your needs. Bento is much easier to use but doesn't have the search capabilities of Filemaker.
Good luck and let me know if you'd like examples of the databases

Jane

Well I have taken the plunge and registered with the Guild as a member and also registered the surname of Fair and its variant Faire. The more I looked at the Guild's website the more I wanted to get involved!
Thanks Jane for the offer of the databases, I have decided to stick with Bento for now and am busy constructing a database for my one name study.

[Bowes Researcher]

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Well I have taken the plunge and registered with the Guild as a member and also registered the surname of Fair and its variant Faire. The more I looked at the Guild's website the more I wanted to get involved!
Thanks Jane for the offer of the databases, I have decided to stick with Bento for now and am busy constructing a database for my one name study.

How exciting Andrew! Just FYI I knew a Fahr, pronounced Fair, in California, German name. I don't suppose related to Fair? Or maybe? Something for your back burner.

Martha

[Allsop]

Re: Reunion and One Name Studies

How exciting Andrew! Just FYI I knew a Fahr, pronounced Fair, in California, German name. I don't suppose related to Fair? Or maybe? Something for your back burner.

Martha

Thanks Martha. Its started!!!

[Keith Bage]

Re: Reunion and One Name Studies

Well I have taken the plunge and registered with the Guild as a member and also registered the surname of Fair and its variant Faire. The more I looked at the Guild's website the more I wanted to get involved!
Thanks Jane for the offer of the databases, I have decided to stick with Bento for now and am busy constructing a database for my one name study.

Well done Andrew and Good Luck! Be sure to join the Guild's forum where you will get plenty of advise.

Keith

[Allsop]

Re: Reunion and One Name Studies

Well done Andrew and Good Luck! Be sure to join the Guild's forum where you will get plenty of advise.

Keith

Thanks Keith for all your advice, I have applied to join the Forum but not heard anything yet. I am quite excited about this and looking forward to getting my research together. Cheers.

[John Hill]

Re: Reunion and One Name Studies

Just want to say Hi here. I just recently purchased reunion for my ONS family tree building. I am very pleased with it so far!!!

Do you know if many other ONS folks are using Reunion than the three of you?

Martha Bowes

Count me in for one - Doogood and variants.

But I have the advantage that a high proportion of them are one family!

However, Reunion is excellent for storing the bits and pieces that are not (yet?) linked, with their sources and notes as appropriate.

[Bowes Researcher]

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How do I add a new family to my ONS file when it's not attached to any other, like the bits and pieces you mention, so I'm not attaching to a pre-existing person in the file?

Thanks in advance, Martha

[Keith Bage]

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How do I add a new family to my ONS file when it's not attached to any other, like the bits and pieces you mention, so I'm not attaching to a pre-existing person in the file?

Thanks in advance, Martha

Follow the path Edit > Add unrelated Person.

I'd really recommend taking some time out to read through the manual. You'll pick up a wealth of good tips.

[Bowes Researcher]

Re: Reunion and One Name Studies

Good advice. I've actually been using it a lot. Very impressive. And I'd even looked for this but somehow didn't see it! Need my glasses checked I guess lol!

[martha]

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At the beginning of this thread and until very recently, I could not understand why one would need something like Bento to record a one name family. But finally the penny dropped, and I think what all of you mean is taking one name and trying to relate everyone to the same family. I actually do have a proven one name family: all HIM[M]ELHOCHs worldwide come from one progenitor and all are blood cousins. From the very first, I just put all of them into my Reunion database and after some years was able to find the uniting factor that proved them related. I did not need any outside help from spreadsheets - Reunion was perfect for my one name family needs.

Martha

[Keith Bage]

Re: Reunion and One Name Studies

At the beginning of this thread and until very recently, I could not understand why one would need something like Bento to record a one name family. But finally the penny dropped, and I think what all of you mean is taking one name and trying to relate everyone to the same family. I actually do have a proven one name family: all HIM[M]ELHOCHs worldwide come from one progenitor and all are blood cousins. From the very first, I just put all of them into my Reunion database and after some years was able to find the uniting factor that proved them related. I did not need any outside help from spreadsheets - Reunion was perfect for my one name family needs.

Martha

Martha,

Its a question of finding the right tools for you and your study, which is why there really is no "one way" to do a one-name study. Your HIM[M]ELHOCH name is clearly a very rare instance and can be managed pretty easily. In the UK there are just two Birth's registered from 1837-2006. However consider someone doing a study on say ATTWOOD, there are 16,487 births in comparison to your 2, with a further 12000 Marriages and 11000 deaths. So you see that things start to become a little more complicated and its hard to see the relationships and reconstruct families here. Its also very likely that there is no one source of a name. Imagine a patronymic name like DAVIDSON, there would be many points of origin for such a name.

So, I hope you see there is a need for other tools and databases for some folks.

Regards

Keith

[martha]

Re: Reunion and One Name Studies

Martha,

Its a question of finding the right tools for you and your study, which is why there really is no "one way" to do a one-name study. Your HIM[M]ELHOCH name is clearly a very rare instance and can be managed pretty easily. In the UK there are just two Birth's registered from 1837-2006. However consider someone doing a study on say ATTWOOD, there are 16,487 births in comparison to your 2, with a further 12000 Marriages and 11000 deaths. So you see that things start to become a little more complicated and its hard to see the relationships and reconstruct families here. Its also very likely that there is no one source of a name. Imagine a patronymic name like DAVIDSON, there would be many points of origin for such a name.

So, I hope you see there is a need for other tools and databases for some folks.

Regards

Keith

Absolutely, Keith! As I said in my post, it took a while for the penny to drop, for me to realize that what was being searched here was the connection among many families of the same name, but not necessarily of the same origin.

Martha