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Contents

Main Articles

• Did our surname come to England with the Spanish Armada, as grandad told me? Focus on a one-name study: RENNISON VAYRO - COVER STORY
• Millions of new records go online at TNA, Find My Past, Ancestry and other sites
  JOHN HANSON with a webwatch update - COVER STORY
• Rounding up registers not in the county record office
  COLIN ULPH reveals how in carrying out a marriage challenge he discovered non-conformist registers that hadn't been deposited - COVER STORY

Guild Reports - News - Events

• Over 120 attend Census Seminar at Essex Record Office - report by SANDRA TURNER and LARAINE HAKE
• Seminars update - Guild's Midlands Seminar at Solihull in February
• Marriage Challenge update by PETER COPSEY
• Guild suffers problems with membership database and website searches
• Halstead Trust One-Name Studies Seminar at Skipton Castle
• College of Arms lecture among talks at Guild's Annual Conference - CHRIS BRAUND and JANET FEW with an update of the the 2008 conference in Devon

Regulars

• From the Chairman's keyboard - PETER WALKER
• Registrar's Notes - DAVID MELLOR
• Treasurer's Comments - CLIFF KEMBALL
• A View from the Bookstall - HOWARD BENBROOK
• Reviews of new books and CDs
• Letters to the Journal