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Contents

Main Articles

• Marriage Challenge: an exciting new Guild project - COVER STORY. PETER COPSEY and ANNI BERMAN report on a valuable new service to members, finding marriage details in parish registers
• Keeping things in the family with the help of eBay Internet auctions JANET FEW on finding artefacts relating to the Braund family
• Guild introduces look-ups in 1837online for "offline" members - COVER STORY. A new service for those not on the Internet is described by CLIFF KEMBALL
• webwatch: Finding your Trafalgar Ancesters Online at The National Archives - COVER STORY. HOWARD BENBROOK on the great new database 200 years after the battle

Guild Reports - News - Events

• Occupations Seminar in Sunderland provides a rich seam of social history
• Seminars update
• New venue, speakers and topics for Guild's 2006 Conference
• Why we are changing the Guild Constitution by our Chairman PETER WALKER
• Des Gander wins our design-a-mouse-mat competition
• How to enter for Guild Website Awards
• Guild makes its fair debut Down Under in NSW
• World War I and II CD look-ups for members

Regulars

• From the Chairman's keyboard - PETER WALKER
• Just My Opinion - ROY STOCKDILL
• A View from the Bookstall - HOWARD BENBROOK
• Registrar's Notes - ROGER GOACHER