Roger I didn't know of that and I see one can buy a CD of it. But I found a good enough view of it on one website to see our house marked, together with several others nearby that also got hit. For those lucky enough not to have had the experience, I have often been asked what I remember of it - I was five. I don't remember the bang or the crash of masonry, but the terrible silence afterwards, (probably temporary deafness as much as anything). Adrian On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Roger Harvey <rvch@btinternet.com> wrote: > Adrian, > > Don't know if you're aware of the Norwich 'bomb map'? It's had some > conservation work done of late and the BBC carried a news item about it - > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-26261969 > > Roger Harvey #4178 > The Ashpole and Bettington One-Name Studies > > -----Original Message----- > From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Adrian Abbott via > Sent: 14 December 2014 18:12 > To: GOONS > Subject: Re: [G] website on the London bombing blitz of WW2 > > I know from trying to research bombing in the area where I now live that > much of the available evidence comes almost into the category of Urban > Legends and is very unreliable. Newspaper reports were not to be trusted > because many incidents were censored or altered. For instance, I now live > near a Starfish Decoy site that simulated a railway junction and attracted > some bombs which killed several people, but the fact that bombs were falling > on farms rather than the railways was suppressed for obvious reasons. > > During WW2 Norwich, where I lived, and I suspect every urban area > nationally, had a Report Centre, which was manned by people ineligible for > the Services. My father was in a Reserved Occupation, but spent four nights > every week at the Report Centre from about 1940 to 1944 when the raids > tailed off.( I suppose it is ironic that when a time bomb demolished our > house round our ears my father was in the house, not the Report Centre, but > survived). > > As I understand it, every incident was notified to the Centre, who then > coordinated the emergency services to deal with whatever had happened. The > records of these centres would be invaluable, if they have survived. As an > example Norfolk Record Office does have some records, but it is difficult to > see from their online catalogue what they contain. For anyone interested in > finding reliable information a search in the local Records Office could > therefore be well worth while. > > Adrian > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > >

Adrian, Don't know if you're aware of the Norwich 'bomb map'? It's had some conservation work done of late and the BBC carried a news item about it - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-26261969 Roger Harvey #4178 The Ashpole and Bettington One-Name Studies -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Abbott via Sent: 14 December 2014 18:12 To: GOONS Subject: Re: [G] website on the London bombing blitz of WW2 I know from trying to research bombing in the area where I now live that much of the available evidence comes almost into the category of Urban Legends and is very unreliable. Newspaper reports were not to be trusted because many incidents were censored or altered. For instance, I now live near a Starfish Decoy site that simulated a railway junction and attracted some bombs which killed several people, but the fact that bombs were falling on farms rather than the railways was suppressed for obvious reasons. During WW2 Norwich, where I lived, and I suspect every urban area nationally, had a Report Centre, which was manned by people ineligible for the Services. My father was in a Reserved Occupation, but spent four nights every week at the Report Centre from about 1940 to 1944 when the raids tailed off.( I suppose it is ironic that when a time bomb demolished our house round our ears my father was in the house, not the Report Centre, but survived). As I understand it, every incident was notified to the Centre, who then coordinated the emergency services to deal with whatever had happened. The records of these centres would be invaluable, if they have survived. As an example Norfolk Record Office does have some records, but it is difficult to see from their online catalogue what they contain. For anyone interested in finding reliable information a search in the local Records Office could therefore be well worth while. Adrian _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I know from trying to research bombing in the area where I now live that much of the available evidence comes almost into the category of Urban Legends and is very unreliable. Newspaper reports were not to be trusted because many incidents were censored or altered. For instance, I now live near a Starfish Decoy site that simulated a railway junction and attracted some bombs which killed several people, but the fact that bombs were falling on farms rather than the railways was suppressed for obvious reasons. During WW2 Norwich, where I lived, and I suspect every urban area nationally, had a Report Centre, which was manned by people ineligible for the Services. My father was in a Reserved Occupation, but spent four nights every week at the Report Centre from about 1940 to 1944 when the raids tailed off.( I suppose it is ironic that when a time bomb demolished our house round our ears my father was in the house, not the Report Centre, but survived). As I understand it, every incident was notified to the Centre, who then coordinated the emergency services to deal with whatever had happened. The records of these centres would be invaluable, if they have survived. As an example Norfolk Record Office does have some records, but it is difficult to see from their online catalogue what they contain. For anyone interested in finding reliable information a search in the local Records Office could therefore be well worth while. Adrian

Hi, I think there are many publications on specific areas/towns regarding not just the Blitz but generally 2nd World war damage with photographs and maps. "Somewhere" I have one on Bath, Somerset and some years ago borrowed by inter-library loan another book on Somerset which apparently covered all such events including stray bombs in farmyards and fields dealt with by the Home Guard and ships in Bristol harbour, on the River Severn. Being born at the end of the War in a Hertfordshire village the only London bomb that affected my family and included on this website was one dropped on a factory behind my Aunt's house in Stag Lane, Kingsbury (off the Edgware Road in Carlisle Road). Her house received damage through the roof causing a hole in my young cousins' bedroom ceiling which was adequately patched up at the time. I lived there 1950 to 1955 and it was not properly repaired/compensated for until some time after - I was always scared of being in their bedroom in case the ceiling fell down and would wake screaming from nightmares in my own room that I'd end up in my mother's bed downstairs. That bomb missed it's target of a large aircraft factory nearby in Stag Lane. I had hoped this website would give the date of the event but it does not appear to be included. From Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leslie Darbyshire via" <goons@rootsweb.com> To: "NIKKI BROWN" <nikki.wabit@tesco.net>; <goons@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [G] website on the London bombing blitz of WW2 > There is a book "Safe as Houses - Wimbledon at War 1939-1945" > published by the Wimbledon Society that goes into great detail about > all the incidents in Wimbledon Borough right through WW2, so includes > V1 attacks. The book includes a 6 inch to the mile map which > distinguishes between the various types of incident - high explosive > bombs, oil and petrol bombs, incendiary bombs, unexploded bombs, > misfired anti-aircraft shells, crashed aircraft and V1 flying bombs. > No V2s fell in the area. > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jim Benedict via" <goons@rootsweb.com> >> To: goons@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Saturday, 13 December, 2014 8:07:00 PM >> Subject: [G] website on the London bombing blitz of WW2 >> >> For those with history and ancestors of WW2 and London, this may be >> useful. >> Pinpoint bomb drops in your grand/parents neighbourhoods. >> >> The site is at: bombsight.org >> >> It starts with a map of London, dotted with bomb locations throughout the >> city. You can zoom in on a street, or for something really scary, zoom >> out >> to see southeast England blanketed by red pins. When you zoom in, you >> can >> click on a bomb icon for further details. There is usually a "read more" >> link in the popup, which leads to 1940 photo images from the area, >> contributed people's stories relating to this area and even more. >> >> Jim Benedict

When looking at the FMP records from Trade Unions, etc, don't be tempted to just extract their transcriptions. Apart from the possibility of errors, they only transcribed what was there that fitted into FMP's categories. If you look at the originals there are many records where additional data have been added, such as death dates, death of wives, emigration, address changes, arrears of subscriptions, etc. Adrian

There is a large hole between the 1858-1995 and 1996 on databases. Deaths before 1996 where probate was granted after 1995 are on neither system. For example – Wilfred John PARRISH died 13 Sep 1995, Probate 8 Jan 1996 refs 96515355156, 9651535931 and 9651536338. David Wharton Folkestone & District FHS --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com

This blog by Barry Ewell is interesting for Surname Researchers (i.e. us Guild members) as to the evolution of surnames. This can be useful for North American researchers as to where an ancestor line may have originated. It doesn't help me with "Benedict" but might be useful to others. The blog site is at: http://genealogybybarry.com/genealogy-origins-surnames-become-americanized/ http://genealogybybarry.com/genealogy-surname-patronymics-provide-clues-to-c ountry-of-origin/ http://genealogybybarry.com/genealogy-surname-endings-provide-clues-to-count ry-of-origin-part-1/ http://genealogybybarry.com/genealogy-surname-endings-provide-clues-country- origin-part-2/ I have a personal story on surname conversion for practical reasons. My grandfather on my mother's side originally came from Alsace. At times Alsace was under German control; at other times under French control. The family name was Weber, but pronounced "Veeber". Granddad was brought to Canada with the whole family back in the 1890's. He grew up, married grandmother in Manitoba and that family, including my mom, moved to Calgary. During the war years (the Great War), there was animosity against anyone German or sounding German. Granddad was far more French than German, but couldn't get work. An easy fix: he told the family that from now on, the surname was spelled "Webber" and not "Weber" and my mom and her siblings were now of British. The family survived and granddad got work, thanks to one extra "B". Jim Benedict Guild Representative for Western Canada Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 Calgary, Alberta www.BenedictGenerations.com ========================================================

I have a book published by a local historian, 'Surbiton Bombed'. I will match the information with that on the London Blitz site, but I know of one bomb that is missing. Where my uncle and cousins lived in Tolworth, part of Surbiton, a time bomb blew up the row of houses in the road that their house backed on to. They lived in Elmdene and the houses that were demolished were in Knollmead. There is no mention of this bomb, so maybe time bombs are not recorded on the map. The houses were near to the Chessington branch line, which led to an Ordnance Survey set of offices and probably other government establishments. The railway line was the target, I have been told, and there were bomb craters either side of the line. I don't think it was disrupted, other than that the extension to Leatherhead and beyond was never built. Janet Heskins [2281]

There is a book "Safe as Houses - Wimbledon at War 1939-1945" published by the Wimbledon Society that goes into great detail about all the incidents in Wimbledon Borough right through WW2, so includes V1 attacks. The book includes a 6 inch to the mile map which distinguishes between the various types of incident - high explosive bombs, oil and petrol bombs, incendiary bombs, unexploded bombs, misfired anti-aircraft shells, crashed aircraft and V1 flying bombs. No V2s fell in the area. The book would be of great interest to anyone (like myself) from the area. I don't know if it is available on line. Leslie Darbyshire GOONS 3599 researching Brockwell/Brookwell On 14 December 2014 at 01:56, NIKKI BROWN via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Sounds great, I'll have a look and maybe add some details to the deaths of 3 children of one Pullum family, who died at Keeton's Road School. Bermondsey, London on Saturday 7th September 1940. The school was being used as a shelter on the first day of the Blitz. Siblings Lucy (17), Catherine (16) and Stanley (15) were among the 400 killed at the rest centre that night. > Nikki > #6552 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Benedict via" <goons@rootsweb.com> > To: goons@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, 13 December, 2014 8:07:00 PM > Subject: [G] website on the London bombing blitz of WW2 > > For those with history and ancestors of WW2 and London, this may be useful. > Pinpoint bomb drops in your grand/parents neighbourhoods. > > The site is at: bombsight.org > > It starts with a map of London, dotted with bomb locations throughout the > city. You can zoom in on a street, or for something really scary, zoom out > to see southeast England blanketed by red pins. When you zoom in, you can > click on a bomb icon for further details. There is usually a "read more" > link in the popup, which leads to 1940 photo images from the area, > contributed people's stories relating to this area and even more. > > For those living in London, there is an Android app available. With it, you > can use your device GPS to see the bomb locations superimposed on today's > Google street view. > > Does this help anyone find some background on their relative's wartime > stories??? > > > About the project > ----------------------- > The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London WW2 bomb census between > 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. Previously available only by viewing in the > Reading Room at The National Archives, Bomb Sight is making the maps > available to citizen researchers, academics and students. They will be able > to explore where the bombs fell and to discover memories and photographs > from the period. > > The project has scanned original 1940s bomb census maps , geo-referenced the > maps and digitally captured the geographical locations of all the falling > bombs recorded on the original map. The data has then been integrated into > 2 different types of applications: > > Jim Benedict > Guild Representative for Western Canada > Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 > Calgary, Alberta > www.BenedictGenerations.com > ======================================================== > > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, I note some of you have managed to get 10 pages worth, I guess I am lucky with the two pages I have for my ONS. Also thanks for the tip about the search box on the left, missed that the first time I looked and just about wrote the site off as being of no use to me. Will try the * ( wild card ) in my ONS as well and see how many more come up. Regards, David J Grimshaw (or is it Grimason?) Genealogical Researcher of the "Grimason" surname and variations of the "Grimason" surname World Wide. A One Name study registered with the Guild of One Name Studies (GOONS): 6138 formally 2962 The "Sherlock Holmes" of this family according to some On 13/12/2014 6:46 a.m., broomfield-ons via wrote: > Hi All > June's suggestion is fine unless you have a surname which has more than 10 > pages of results because it looks for a place match first and as there are > probably more places called BROOMFIELD than people<vbg> this does not solve > the lack of a proper search facility. > I am also not listed - has anyone found an explanation of where the data > comes from? > > If you really want to be puzzled go to the home page and use the Postcode > lookup - using the "Outward" part of my postcode gives an odd set of streets > with an enormous number of duplications - some of these are caused the site > using one or more ways of formatting the phone number. > Chris > > Chris Broomfield > Broomfield, Bromfield & Brumfield One Name Study > > -----Original Message----- > From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of June Willing via > Sent: 12 December 2014 08:58 > To: Merryl Wells; goons@rootsweb.com LIST > Subject: Re: [G] A family location lookup website > > Hi Merryl > > Here is an alternative way of searching. > > 1. Enter surname in search box on left. > > 2. Select an entry for a person, as opposed to a street name, etc. For > Willing I had to go to the second page. > > 3. Click the surname of the person with the surname in question. > > I get a list which tells me there are 1,401 people with the last name > Willing. > > I am not listed, but I did a postcode search. There are people in > adjacent streets listed but not mine. It looks like they have not > finished adding the UK data. > > Willings was slightly trickier, as the Willings entries were mixed up > with the Willing entries, but I found one eventually. There are 189, > but not very many in the UK. > > I am reluctant to give them my name and e-mail address for alerts. > > June Willing > Guild of One-Name Studies member no 2117 > Willing/Willings One-Name Study > http://one-name.org/name_profile/Willing/ > Willing/Willings DNA Project > http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Willing/ > Dominicus One-Name Study > http://one-name.org/name_profile/dominicus-2/ > > > > On 12 Dec 2014, at 06:45, Merryl Wells via wrote: > >> Hi, As you said, would be a long, long night to try and find someone. >> >> Having to look through thousands of WEL to find Wells was not a good >> idea, >> my finger slipped pressing the keys and I couldn't go back one page. >> Thought I'd try GOL for Gollick, started that but got cramp in my >> shoulder >> so have given up! Would be slightly easier if the index consisted >> of the >> first four letters rather than three! >> >> From >> Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. >> E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org >> GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jim Benedict via" <goons@rootsweb.com> >> To: <goons@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 4:26 AM >> Subject: [G] A family location lookup website >> >> >>> Are you searching for all living instances of your surname in the >>> world? >>> Are you looking for everyone in your postal/zip code? Do you want >>> to plow >>> through over 2 million family names and over 240 million living >>> individuals? >>> Especially if they live in: Canada, Bogota Columbia, New Delhi India, >>> Macedonia, Romania, United Kingdom or the USA? Then I have just the >>> search >>> website for you. >>> >>> Not sure if it has been mentioned previously: >>> http://www.locatefamily.com/ >>> >>> It is a bit uncanny. I was able to locate myself quickly by postal >>> code, >>> including my phone number, and also for everyone on my block. This >>> was >>> the >>> Street search. If you do the Surname search, you also get (once >>> you find >>> it) your relative or yourself, full address, phone number, and map >>> link. >>> >>> It gets downright scary, just how much information is out there. >>> This >>> seems >>> to be better than the usual 411.com or the whitepages.com or similar >>> searches. Cannot spot any advertising, no need for login, nor do >>> you get >>> only partial information. So, this is how the private dicks can >>> locate >>> your >>> wayward spouse. >>> >>> The website states that there are 21 million people in 27 countries >>> starting >>> with "B" in the surname. Also, 11,634 names and 762,810 people >>> starting >>> with "Ben". So I must have 10,000+ Benedict's lurking somewhere in >>> the >>> lists. It is going to be a long, long night. >>> >>> Jim Benedict >>> Guild Representative for Western Canada >>> Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 >>> Calgary, Alberta >>> www.BenedictGenerations.com >>> ======================================================== >>> >>> >>> _____________________________________________ >>> >>> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc >>> http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes >>> in the subject and the body of the message >> _____________________________________________ >> >> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Sounds great, I'll have a look and maybe add some details to the deaths of 3 children of one Pullum family, who died at Keeton's Road School. Bermondsey, London on Saturday 7th September 1940. The school was being used as a shelter on the first day of the Blitz. Siblings Lucy (17), Catherine (16) and Stanley (15) were among the 400 killed at the rest centre that night. Nikki #6552 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Benedict via" <goons@rootsweb.com> To: goons@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, 13 December, 2014 8:07:00 PM Subject: [G] website on the London bombing blitz of WW2 For those with history and ancestors of WW2 and London, this may be useful. Pinpoint bomb drops in your grand/parents neighbourhoods. The site is at: bombsight.org It starts with a map of London, dotted with bomb locations throughout the city. You can zoom in on a street, or for something really scary, zoom out to see southeast England blanketed by red pins. When you zoom in, you can click on a bomb icon for further details. There is usually a "read more" link in the popup, which leads to 1940 photo images from the area, contributed people's stories relating to this area and even more. For those living in London, there is an Android app available. With it, you can use your device GPS to see the bomb locations superimposed on today's Google street view. Does this help anyone find some background on their relative's wartime stories??? About the project ----------------------- The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London WW2 bomb census between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. Previously available only by viewing in the Reading Room at The National Archives, Bomb Sight is making the maps available to citizen researchers, academics and students. They will be able to explore where the bombs fell and to discover memories and photographs from the period. The project has scanned original 1940s bomb census maps , geo-referenced the maps and digitally captured the geographical locations of all the falling bombs recorded on the original map. The data has then been integrated into 2 different types of applications: Jim Benedict Guild Representative for Western Canada Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 Calgary, Alberta www.BenedictGenerations.com ======================================================== _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

i got a 3 hits for Gilhome, no new people but new ways to contact them, and i havent tried variant spellings yet Chris Usher On 13 December 2014 at 11:11, John Hill via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Mine is only a small study, so I went to D and filtered down to Doogood. To my surprise it was there, and yielded three hits. Two were in the USA, and one in Kilmarnock. This is three more than such a search usually finds! > > The Kilmarnock address turned up J L McGarrity, Butchers. So much for that. > > The site offered me the opportunity to e-mail the two USA hits, and I accordingly did so. I received e-mails from the site to say that then had been sent, and almost within seconds further e-mails reporting non-delivery of both - dead addresses. So much for that. > > I am left wondering, in the light of other peoples' experiences, whether it’s worth the bother attempting a letter… > > None of the extant Australian Doogoods appeared. > > Ah, well :-( > > A Merry Christmas to you all. > > John. > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Here in Canterbury the local newspaper published a map to raise funds for forces charities showing where the bombs fell in the 1942 Baedecker raids; interestingly it also shows where a Junkers 88 crashed in the town. I have a copy but don't know if the paper has any plans to put it on line, I might suggest it to them. Bob ---------------------------------------- > To: goons@rootsweb.com > Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 13:07:00 -0700 > Subject: [G] website on the London bombing blitz of WW2 > From: goons@rootsweb.com > > For those with history and ancestors of WW2 and London, this may be useful. > Pinpoint bomb drops in your grand/parents neighbourhoods. > > The site is at: bombsight.org > > It starts with a map of London, dotted with bomb locations throughout the > city. You can zoom in on a street, or for something really scary, zoom out > to see southeast England blanketed by red pins. When you zoom in, you can > click on a bomb icon for further details. There is usually a "read more" > link in the popup, which leads to 1940 photo images from the area, > contributed people's stories relating to this area and even more. > > For those living in London, there is an Android app available. With it, you > can use your device GPS to see the bomb locations superimposed on today's > Google street view. > > Does this help anyone find some background on their relative's wartime > stories??? > > > About the project > ----------------------- > The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London WW2 bomb census between > 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. Previously available only by viewing in the > Reading Room at The National Archives, Bomb Sight is making the maps > available to citizen researchers, academics and students. They will be able > to explore where the bombs fell and to discover memories and photographs > from the period. > > The project has scanned original 1940s bomb census maps , geo-referenced the > maps and digitally captured the geographical locations of all the falling > bombs recorded on the original map. The data has then been integrated into > 2 different types of applications: > > Jim Benedict > Guild Representative for Western Canada > Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 > Calgary, Alberta > www.BenedictGenerations.com > ======================================================== > > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

For those with history and ancestors of WW2 and London, this may be useful. Pinpoint bomb drops in your grand/parents neighbourhoods. The site is at: bombsight.org It starts with a map of London, dotted with bomb locations throughout the city. You can zoom in on a street, or for something really scary, zoom out to see southeast England blanketed by red pins. When you zoom in, you can click on a bomb icon for further details. There is usually a "read more" link in the popup, which leads to 1940 photo images from the area, contributed people's stories relating to this area and even more. For those living in London, there is an Android app available. With it, you can use your device GPS to see the bomb locations superimposed on today's Google street view. Does this help anyone find some background on their relative's wartime stories??? About the project ----------------------- The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London WW2 bomb census between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. Previously available only by viewing in the Reading Room at The National Archives, Bomb Sight is making the maps available to citizen researchers, academics and students. They will be able to explore where the bombs fell and to discover memories and photographs from the period. The project has scanned original 1940s bomb census maps , geo-referenced the maps and digitally captured the geographical locations of all the falling bombs recorded on the original map. The data has then been integrated into 2 different types of applications: Jim Benedict Guild Representative for Western Canada Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 Calgary, Alberta www.BenedictGenerations.com ========================================================

Mine is only a small study, so I went to D and filtered down to Doogood. To my surprise it was there, and yielded three hits. Two were in the USA, and one in Kilmarnock. This is three more than such a search usually finds! The Kilmarnock address turned up J L McGarrity, Butchers. So much for that. The site offered me the opportunity to e-mail the two USA hits, and I accordingly did so. I received e-mails from the site to say that then had been sent, and almost within seconds further e-mails reporting non-delivery of both - dead addresses. So much for that. I am left wondering, in the light of other peoples' experiences, whether it’s worth the bother attempting a letter… None of the extant Australian Doogoods appeared. Ah, well :-( A Merry Christmas to you all. John.

Hi, Jim has the right idea of how to find a particular person. I've now found the Wells I was seeking by putting the full surname into the find 'box' on the extreme left which takes you to a list of surname finder sites, so just find this site which gives the surname and number of entries. Use the url at the top and change the number within it to about half way through, i.e. if there are 180,000 try 9,000 then go back or forward in 1000's or 100's, the first names are in alphabetical order. If you were used to the index books at St. Catherine's House you will already be experienced at guessing approximately where the name should appear :>) By the way I was amazed at the large number of supposed surnames where there was only one person with such a name, whether their surname was dying out or a new 'made-up' surname! By my method I tried the surname of Malenoir to receive a nil result and Aufenast only two in Germany, although there are families of both those surnames in England. From Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Benedict" <jim.benedict@shaw.ca> To: "'Merryl Wells'" <merryl.wells@one-name.org>; <goons@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 8:33 AM Subject: RE: [G] A family location lookup website > There is a secret way to move more quickly through the list. For example, > for Benedict, there are 169 pages (!) of Benedict's. The first page is > at: > > http://www.locatefamily.com/B/BEN/BENEDICT-1.html > > On that page at the top, it tells me that there are 13,489 people with the > last name Benedict. But just below that, it offers me the choice to click > (move to) pages 2, 3, 4, 5, ... 28. If I click on the link to page 28 > and > go there, then the range of clickable page numbers changes. #28 is in the > middle, and I could then choose pages 18 through 40. And so on. So you > can > quickly move up and down the page range. > > Or, if you want to, just change the URL by editing part of it. My > Benedict > page #28 is at URL: > > http://www.locatefamily.com/B/BEN/BENEDICT-28.html > > If I want to leap to page #123, I would edit the 28 in the URL to be 123 > and > then hit the enter button. > > So I did a quick check. The first page for wells, just by editing the > URL, > appeared at: > > http://www.locatefamily.com/W/WEL/WELLS-1.html > > Took me 10 seconds to get there. You have 129,042 people with the last > name > of Wells; listed over 1,614 pages. To move around, edit the "1" (one) to > become, say, half-way, or "807" and then work your way in either > direction. > What this needs is a filter on both the surname and the geographical > region > and then it could be more useful. > > But yes, 13,489 is an awful lot of Benedict's (or Wells). And I'm not > prepared to phone and write to each of them for the sake of the Study. It > could be a useful tool. If for example, you know there were several > "Wells" > in a particular smaller community, this tool allows you to enter the > postal > /zip code, pull them up and do a count. You could then get a distribution > of the living descendants of a particular surname this way. If that were > of > interest in your study, that is. > > This is a good cure for insomnia, > Jim Benedict > ======================================================= > > -----Original Message----- > From: Merryl Wells [mailto:merryl.wells@ntlworld.com] > Sent: December 11, 2014 11:46 PM > To: Jim Benedict; goons@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [G] A family location lookup website > > Hi, As you said, would be a long, long night to try and find someone. > > Having to look through thousands of WEL to find Wells was not a good idea, > my finger slipped pressing the keys and I couldn't go back one page. > Thought I'd try GOL for Gollick, started that but got cramp in my shoulder > so have given up! Would be slightly easier if the index consisted of the > first four letters rather than three! > > From > Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. > E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org > GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Benedict via" <goons@rootsweb.com> > To: <goons@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 4:26 AM > Subject: [G] A family location lookup website > > >> Are you searching for all living instances of your surname in the world? >> Are you looking for everyone in your postal/zip code? Do you want to >> plow >> through over 2 million family names and over 240 million living >> individuals? >> Especially if they live in: Canada, Bogota Columbia, New Delhi India, >> Macedonia, Romania, United Kingdom or the USA? Then I have just the >> search >> website for you. >> >> Not sure if it has been mentioned previously: >> http://www.locatefamily.com/ >> >> It is a bit uncanny. I was able to locate myself quickly by postal code, >> including my phone number, and also for everyone on my block. This was >> the >> Street search. If you do the Surname search, you also get (once you find >> it) your relative or yourself, full address, phone number, and map link. >> >> It gets downright scary, just how much information is out there. This >> seems >> to be better than the usual 411.com or the whitepages.com or similar >> searches. Cannot spot any advertising, no need for login, nor do you get >> only partial information. So, this is how the private dicks can locate >> your >> wayward spouse. >> >> The website states that there are 21 million people in 27 countries >> starting >> with "B" in the surname. Also, 11,634 names and 762,810 people starting >> with "Ben". So I must have 10,000+ Benedict's lurking somewhere in the >> lists. It is going to be a long, long night. >> >> Jim Benedict >> Guild Representative for Western Canada >> Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 >> Calgary, Alberta >> www.BenedictGenerations.com >> ======================================================== >> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc >> http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi All June's suggestion is fine unless you have a surname which has more than 10 pages of results because it looks for a place match first and as there are probably more places called BROOMFIELD than people<vbg> this does not solve the lack of a proper search facility. I am also not listed - has anyone found an explanation of where the data comes from? If you really want to be puzzled go to the home page and use the Postcode lookup - using the "Outward" part of my postcode gives an odd set of streets with an enormous number of duplications - some of these are caused the site using one or more ways of formatting the phone number. Chris Chris Broomfield Broomfield, Bromfield & Brumfield One Name Study -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of June Willing via Sent: 12 December 2014 08:58 To: Merryl Wells; goons@rootsweb.com LIST Subject: Re: [G] A family location lookup website Hi Merryl Here is an alternative way of searching. 1. Enter surname in search box on left. 2. Select an entry for a person, as opposed to a street name, etc. For Willing I had to go to the second page. 3. Click the surname of the person with the surname in question. I get a list which tells me there are 1,401 people with the last name Willing. I am not listed, but I did a postcode search. There are people in adjacent streets listed but not mine. It looks like they have not finished adding the UK data. Willings was slightly trickier, as the Willings entries were mixed up with the Willing entries, but I found one eventually. There are 189, but not very many in the UK. I am reluctant to give them my name and e-mail address for alerts. June Willing Guild of One-Name Studies member no 2117 Willing/Willings One-Name Study http://one-name.org/name_profile/Willing/ Willing/Willings DNA Project http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Willing/ Dominicus One-Name Study http://one-name.org/name_profile/dominicus-2/ On 12 Dec 2014, at 06:45, Merryl Wells via wrote: > Hi, As you said, would be a long, long night to try and find someone. > > Having to look through thousands of WEL to find Wells was not a good > idea, > my finger slipped pressing the keys and I couldn't go back one page. > Thought I'd try GOL for Gollick, started that but got cramp in my > shoulder > so have given up! Would be slightly easier if the index consisted > of the > first four letters rather than three! > > From > Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. > E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org > GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Benedict via" <goons@rootsweb.com> > To: <goons@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 4:26 AM > Subject: [G] A family location lookup website > > >> Are you searching for all living instances of your surname in the >> world? >> Are you looking for everyone in your postal/zip code? Do you want >> to plow >> through over 2 million family names and over 240 million living >> individuals? >> Especially if they live in: Canada, Bogota Columbia, New Delhi India, >> Macedonia, Romania, United Kingdom or the USA? Then I have just the >> search >> website for you. >> >> Not sure if it has been mentioned previously: >> http://www.locatefamily.com/ >> >> It is a bit uncanny. I was able to locate myself quickly by postal >> code, >> including my phone number, and also for everyone on my block. This >> was >> the >> Street search. If you do the Surname search, you also get (once >> you find >> it) your relative or yourself, full address, phone number, and map >> link. >> >> It gets downright scary, just how much information is out there. >> This >> seems >> to be better than the usual 411.com or the whitepages.com or similar >> searches. Cannot spot any advertising, no need for login, nor do >> you get >> only partial information. So, this is how the private dicks can >> locate >> your >> wayward spouse. >> >> The website states that there are 21 million people in 27 countries >> starting >> with "B" in the surname. Also, 11,634 names and 762,810 people >> starting >> with "Ben". So I must have 10,000+ Benedict's lurking somewhere in >> the >> lists. It is going to be a long, long night. >> >> Jim Benedict >> Guild Representative for Western Canada >> Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 >> Calgary, Alberta >> www.BenedictGenerations.com >> ======================================================== >> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc >> http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Useful, be aware if trying to contacting anyone (or using presence on the site to assign death to another) - they're not all living, I'm in touch with a 2nd cousin in America, and he let me know when his sister-in-law died, in 2007. She's listed on the site. Teresa On 12/12/2014 04:26, Jim Benedict via wrote: > Are you searching for all living instances of your surname in the world? > Are you looking for everyone in your postal/zip code? Do you want to plow > through over 2 million family names and over 240 million living individuals? > Especially if they live in: Canada, Bogota Columbia, New Delhi India, > Macedonia, Romania, United Kingdom or the USA? Then I have just the search > website for you. > > Not sure if it has been mentioned previously: http://www.locatefamily.com/ > > It is a bit uncanny. I was able to locate myself quickly by postal code, > including my phone number, and also for everyone on my block. This was the > Street search. If you do the Surname search, you also get (once you find > it) your relative or yourself, full address, phone number, and map link. > > It gets downright scary, just how much information is out there. This seems > to be better than the usual 411.com or the whitepages.com or similar > searches. Cannot spot any advertising, no need for login, nor do you get > only partial information. So, this is how the private dicks can locate your > wayward spouse. > > The website states that there are 21 million people in 27 countries starting > with "B" in the surname. Also, 11,634 names and 762,810 people starting > with "Ben". So I must have 10,000+ Benedict's lurking somewhere in the > lists. It is going to be a long, long night. > > Jim Benedict > Guild Representative for Western Canada > Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 > Calgary, Alberta > www.BenedictGenerations.com > ======================================================== > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- ------------------------ Teresa Goatham Sign the petition to open historic BMD registers - http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/62779 (UK residents / British citizens only)

Hi Polly It is very easy to locate Rowberry using the method you suggest. But a name like Willing is much more difficult, because of the number of names which begin with WIL-. Wells and Benedict exhibit the same problems, hence my alternative suggestion. However, I acknowledge that Jim's suggestion of editing his URL for Benedict is also good, if a little fiddly. June Willing Guild of One-Name Studies member no 2117 Willing/Willings One-Name Study http://one-name.org/name_profile/Willing/ Willing/Willings DNA Project http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Willing/ Dominicus One-Name Study http://one-name.org/name_profile/dominicus-2/ On 12 Dec 2014, at 08:21, Polly Rubery via wrote: > Hi Merryl (and Jim) > > Thanks for the link to this site, although I have seen something > similar > before. But not sure why you are both having so much trouble > locating your > names. I found it very easy... > > 1. Select initial letter from row along top of homepage - in my > case R > 2. Scroll down through the sets of three letters starts and select > the one > of interest - in my case Row > 3. Scroll down through the lists of surnames beginning with Row > until you > find Rowberry (or one of the other variantions such as Rowbery and > Rowbury). > This page gives you a brief summary of how many people they have > listed and > where, so in the case of Rowberry 355 people, 21 in Canada, 18 in New > Zealand, 31 in UK and 285 in the USA; which I know to be well below > the > actual figures (even of adults alone) (and doesn't include any of > those in > Australia) but at least it is a start. > 4. Click on the surname to take you to the listings. There are > quite a few > duplicates, so even the total number of people is less than they > claim, but > you do get full address and phone number. > > If your surname is not listed there is a link at the bottom of the > page at 3 > above which takes you to a form to fill in for notification of when > they > acquire some.... > Polly > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Merryl Wells via" <goons@rootsweb.com> > To: "Jim Benedict" <jim.benedict@shaw.ca>; <goons@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 6:45 AM > Subject: Re: [G] A family location lookup website > > > Hi, As you said, would be a long, long night to try and find someone. > > Having to look through thousands of WEL to find Wells was not a good > idea, > my finger slipped pressing the keys and I couldn't go back one page. > Thought I'd try GOL for Gollick, started that but got cramp in my > shoulder > so have given up! Would be slightly easier if the index consisted > of the > first four letters rather than three! > > From > Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message

Hi, As far as I can see, the only UK names listed are those of Company Directors - nothing from the electoral roll or telephone directory. Best wishes, Ian Middlebrook GOONS #6498 On Fri, December 12, 2014 8:31 am, Penelope Burton via wrote: > Interesting site. Not very useful, but I do wonder how they do it. > They seem to have less than 10% of UK QUESTED addresses which I know > about. They have NONE of the 10 individual QUESTED households on my xmas > card list. > > Penelope Burton > GOONS 4896 > _____________________________________________ > > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >