Digitised material

For many one-namers, their one-name study will represent a substantial amount of data, being the result of many years' work, maybe even a lifetime of research and organisation.

The Guild encourages its members to document their One-Name Studies and deposit copies with appropriate organisations, e.g. The Society of Genealogists, County Record Offices or Local Studies Centres. The reasons for doing this include not only making the results of your study available to a wider audience, but also providing a secure off-site location for the information you have collected. (We suggest that you shouldn't wait until your study is finished, as no study ever will be.)

Where the data is in digital form, the Guild is more than happy for members to archive their one-name data with the Guild itself, in the form of a CD or DVD. In addition, of course, the Guild encourages members to use the Guild Archive facility and the Guild Marriage Index to archive their data.