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Contents

Main Articles

• Many online records for family historians to be found in National Archives of Australia, DAVID WEATHERILL offers some advice on genealogy sources Down Under
• Tracing slave and slave-owning ancestors in British Caribbean countries, Tips for researching in this specialist area by GUY GRANNUM
• Your Guild e-mail address is worth the subscription, JOHN COLLOFF describes a valuable facility for newcomers to computers
• Fun and games with day and month names from the 1881 census, JOHN HANSON has been playing with his discs again
• Was your ancestor a criminal, victim or trial witness? - COVER STORT, ROY STOCKDILL looks at a new wewbsite that puts 18th century records of the famous Old Bailey criminal court online

Guild Reports - News - Events

• Worcestershire Seminar is voted a rousing success - reports and pictures
• Upcoming seminars in Edinburgh and Epsom
• Death of Vice-President Mary Rumsey
• Beware the early morning knock on the door from the Goons Heavy Squad! JOHN COLLOFF issues a stern warning to members who falsify their research
• Serendipity and FFHS pay-per-view web site

Regulars

• Chairman's Notes - KEN TOLL
• Just My Opinion - ROY STOCKDILL
• Treasurer's Notes - SANDRA TURNER
• Librarian's Notes - JOHN COLLOFF
• Membership Secretary - ROGER GOACHER
• A View from the Bookstall - HOWARD BENBROOK with a new column
• Letters: Your views on issues in the one-name world
• It's A Funny Old Genealogical World