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Contents

Main Articles

• Many surname variants are really misspelt deviants - COVER STORY, DEREK PALGRAVE on difficulties associated with the multiplicity of surname spellings
• Make the most out of online search engines to aid your one-name research - ROB ALEXANDER with the first of a two-part series about online essentials
• Business Card that travelled across three continents and 100 years - VALDA SHRIMPTON tells a fascinating tale of a tiny artefact from her one-name study
• Impressive directories collection could do with a better search engine - COVER STORY, In our regular webwatch feature, HOWARD BENBROOK looks at the University of Leicester's Digital Library of Historical Directories

Guild Reports - News - Events

• Something for everyone at Halsted Trust Seminar on Introducing the Guild
• A day at the races (or the Internet Seminar at Epsom)
• Put dates in your diary for Newspapers and DNA Seminars
• Have your one-name gatherings poster at the FRC
• Guild's 2004 Conference covers topics you have asked for
• Family reunions - Glenister gathering report; Dates for Jackett and P*rr*tt events
• One-Name Publications award
• Scottish Association of Family History Societies
• President's appeal for armorial bearings wins some support
• New Committee member

Regulars

• Chairman's Notes - KEN TOLL
• Just My Opinion - ROY STOCKDILL
• A View from the Bookstall - HOWARD BENBROOK
• Registrar's Notes - ROGER GOACHER
• Reviews of new genealogy books and CDs
• Letters to The Journal - Your views on issues in the one-name world