Hi All, My understanding of this Index was that it would contain marriages which took place 'outside' the UK and where BOTH participants were Registered Names of a One Name Study. However on the new website the description states ANY marriage will be acceptable. I also feel that the effort to create such an Index is being 'misguided' into being so general, we are after all The Guild Of ONE NAME STUDIES and do not want to produce another 'IGI' for lack of a better phrase and personally prefer 'quality over quantity'. I cannot see how that will benefit the Guild Members. Also in the same vein I cannot see why the BMD Vault exists. Of what benefit can the birth/death of a 'registered name' to any other ONS. Please beleive me I applaud the efforts of the people who are looking after these Indexes but I feel much work is being done without being truely related to the Guild and/or a One Name Study; we are a small society with very few resources and need to 'harvest' them very carefully. Regards Tony Anthony John MINGAY, now in NZ once of Kent & Suffolk, England but still researching Worldwide the surname MINGAY & its variants. http://www.mingayhistory.co.uk.

The worldwide index was never intended to be limited to only marriages outside the UK with both participants were registered study names. I don't know where you got that idea. The Worldwide index was designed to allow members to search the marriages in another member's study to see if there was an overlap. To put it simply - I knew I had marriages that probably overlapped with other studies but was too lazy to go through my list of 5000 marriages, locate other study surnames and then send them notifications. Putting in a searchable index that another member could go through and if the marriage was new to them and contact me for more information seemed more reasonable. And hopefully someone else might have some marriages I didn't know about. Think of it as a dating game. The only requirement on a contributing member is a willingness to reply to inquiries. Since this index relies on contact, only minimal information is needed for each marriage - names, date, place. Marriages can be from any country Including the UK( esp. before GRO years). I take what people contribute and in some cases this does include GRO marriages. The new website allows the general public to see the numeric results of a search for their name - they don't see the marriages. However, even that much allows them to see that some of our members have information about their name as well. Guess you could call it 'bait' So you want to contribute - I make it as easy as possible Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com ________________________________ From: mingay via <goons@rootsweb.com> To: GOONS Forum <GOONS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 5:48 PM Subject: [G] Worldwide Marriage Index Hi All, My understanding of this Index was that it would contain marriages which took place 'outside' the UK and where BOTH participants were Registered Names of a One Name Study. However on the new website the description states ANY marriage will be acceptable. I also feel that the effort to create such an Index is being 'misguided' into being so general, we are after all The Guild Of ONE NAME STUDIES and do not want to produce another 'IGI' for lack of a better phrase and personally prefer 'quality over quantity'. I cannot see how that will benefit the Guild Members. Also in the same vein I cannot see why the BMD Vault exists. Of what benefit can the birth/death of a 'registered name' to any other ONS. Please beleive me I applaud the efforts of the people who are looking after these Indexes but I feel much work is being done without being truely related to the Guild and/or a One Name Study; we are a small society with very few resources and need to 'harvest' them very carefully. Regards Tony Anthony John MINGAY, now in NZ once of Kent & Suffolk, England but still researching Worldwide the surname MINGAY & its variants. http://www.mingayhistory.co.uk. _____________________________________________ 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