Hi All, In a reply to my comments/views of the so called Worldwide Marriage Index I was amazed to see that they are to be put in the Public Domain. I presume all contributers have agree to that happening, has the possible infringement of copyright been fully investigated and that the Committee has also concurred to this publication. I think not, (see Minutes of meetings on 13 sep 2014 & 15 Nov 2014 & submitted papers by Paul MILLINGTON 10 pages & Anna SHANKLAND, 12 pages, the latter being with drawn). Again it is my understanding that the terms & conditions of the WMI are the same as those for the GMI that entries should contain at least one registered name, if not then it has no relevance to the members of the Guild of One Name Studies Further more I note that the whole issue of the Guild Indexes has been discussed at length within the Committee (again see Minutes of meetings on 13 sep 2014 & 15 Nov 2014 & submitted papers by Paul MILLINGTON 10 pages & Anne SHANKLAND, 12 pages, the latter being with drawn) with no firm conclusion reached. Confusion reigns in my reading of those minutes as to why the GMI has to be singled out for being 'English' and to be not 'worldwide', it is solely related to England just the same as the SMI is so 'Scottish' and the proposed Irish marrige index is so 'Irish'. One is left wondering what was said at the 31 Jan 2015 meeting on the subject and if any decision reached? No doubt this contentious issue will be the subject of many more discussions and may be the platform of prospective candidates for the next elected committee (if an there is an election of course). Sadly due to personal reasons I cannot stand as a candidate but if circumstances were different I would love to be on the Committee even it meant staying up all night to attend :-)) 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.