Hi, I was unaware of this service or should I say possible service. My One Name Study surname is rare that being Grimason / Grimison and sometimes entered as Grimeson. There was a Grimason-Harris family once as well however I have reason to believe they have since dropped the Grimason and are now near impossible to trace. My own transcribed index of the BMD of England & Wales gores up to 2000 inclusive so anything post that will be new for me. I do check from time to time the online obituaries however again due to the surname being rare these are few and far between. So I would be very interested. I will be checking with the Auckland Public Library here in New Zealand to see if they do hold the post 2000 Micro Fiche, if they do then that is far cheaper than traveling to England by a long shot. 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 formerly 2962 The "Sherlock Holmes" of this family according to some. On 17/05/2017 8:15 AM, Doug Burgum wrote: > This is, or was, a fantastic service. I, for one, live in Andorra and > my visits to the UK are rare. If there are volunteers willing to help > this would enhance my Burgum and Burgham One-Name-Study and, yes, is a > rare name. If you are suffering few requests, I would like to add > myself to the top of the list of requesters! > > Doug Burgum > La Massana, Andorra > Researching Burgum and Burgham (plus variants) Worldwide > (Originally the family seems to have begun in the Forest of Dean) > > On 15 May 2017 at 22:09, Stephen Daglish <stephendaglish@btinternet.com> wrote: >> I would appreciate any thoughts on this please. >> >> For some time, the Guild has had a project to look up post-2005 Birth Marriage and Death indexes in England and Wales. These indexes are not available online and can only be viewed on microfiche at a small number of locations in the UK: >> >> Birmingham Central Library >> Bridgend Reference and Information Library >> The British Library >> City of Westminster Archives Centre >> Greater Manchester County Record Office >> Plymouth Central Library >> >> For those who live outside the UK, or who are in the UK but not near one of the places where the records are available, it is difficult to access these records. >> >> The project was set up to enable entries to be searched and transcribed on behalf of members. The project has a co-ordinator who receives requests for look-ups for registered study names and passes these to a band of volunteers able to visit one of the places and extract the data. >> >> However, in practice we do not have these volunteers and the co-ordinator role is vacant - so we have no way to respond to any requests received. >> >> We think that this is still a potentially useful service for members, since these are key records for one-namers who have interests in England and Wales, and members who do not live near to the record offices are disadvantaged in terms of accessing these records. But without volunteers, the current process will not work. >> >> One suggestion is to try to see if this might work as a look up offer, rather than an ongoing project. If we could find members who are planning visits to one of the record offices and who might have some spare time, then they might make an offer to do some limited look ups. >> >> However, it is difficult to estimate the level of work that might be required to fulfil a request. For smaller names this might be manageable but for larger names this can become a significant task - which gets larger as additional years are added. >> >> In practice, few requests are currently being received. This may be because members are not aware the service is offered or perhaps there is little interest in these records. >> >> >> Should we seek to continue to offer this service and to look for volunteers who can help? Are there any alternative approaches that we might look at? >> Any thoughts welcome. >> >> Thank you. >> Stephen Daglish (4509) >> Volunteers Co-ordinator >> _____________________________________________ >> >> Information and admin page: >> http://one-name.org/guild-information-administration/ >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > _____________________________________________ > > Information and admin page: > http://one-name.org/guild-information-administration/ > ------------------------------- > 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 >