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Contents

Main Articles

• How to get the most from your Guild one-name e-mail address
  PETER WALKER, Forum Manager, reveals more on this valuable facility for members
• FamilyHistoryOnline boasts over 14 million records - COVER STORY
  JOHN HANSON looks at what's available at the Federation of Family History Societies' pay-per-view website
• Officials storm a public library and snatch genealogical society's microfilm
  DICK EASTMAN tells a disturbing tale from Ohio
• With Surname Atlas a picture tells a thousand words - COVER STORY
  A four-page special on Steve Archer's great new program that plots surname distributions from the 1881 census - by HOWARD BENBROOK and ROY STOCKDILL

Guild Reports - News - Events

• New Guild Handbook for every member
• Editor's challenge - Tell us how you run a one-name study with a computer!
• Over 120,000 records now in Guild Marriage Index
• Wiltshire members' get-together
• Party time at our 25th anniversary conference
• Scottish Genealogy Society's 50 years
• News of forthcoming Guild seminars - Halsted Trust, Internet and Newspapers

Regulars

• Chairman's Notes - KEN TOLL
• Just My Opinion - ROY STOCKDILL
• A View from the Bookstall - HOWARD BENBROOK
• Registrars Notes - ROGER GOACHER
• Letters to The Journal - Your views on issues in the one-name world
• Reviews of new genealogy books
• It's a Funny Old World - A celebration of the comic and curious